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January 15, 2008 |
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Uh-oh
FOUND by Julie
in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
A grim forecast scribbled onto a piece of printer paper. The back reads "BECOMING A MAN (12 YEARS OLD)"
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
Becoming a man is more than Hair and Odor my dear :)
Awww, is he supposed to * them off as they make themselves known to him?
Although I've yet to meet a 12 year old that had chest, underarm, or facial hair. Or who's voice had changed. That's a bit young for puberty- especially in a boy. Give it a few more years and more will set in than just the odor. ;)
1 down, 5 more to go......manhood, here I come!
What about pubes and larger penis?
I remember when I started puberty.
Worst years of my life.
Moon acne sucks.
My 12 year old is going through all this now, except chest hair. Below the belt is not for mom to speculate. (Nor you, Miss Lauren.) 8-p
Man in the Moon, did they call you crater face?
well, this blows the letters to mom series out of the water, but the green theme lives to see another day.
Are you sure that doesn't say "Christ hair"? Maybe he expects to grow shoulder length hair, as in all the Western depictions of Jesus.
Before I read what was on the back, I thought it was a "Why won't you date me? Please check one," type of list.
Poor fella. I hope puberty is kind to him.
sounds like a party!
It's not better for girls though...BLA growing up is entirely too painful.
Oh man! Everything about this list makes me think about seventh grade P.E. that locker room damaged me beyond repair, good luck son, good luck...
My son is 9 and im getting worried already only 3 more years and I will find notes like these...wakes me up at night
Doesn't look like a kid's note-to-self...looks more like an adult's notes for "the talk" about puberty and what to expect.
And I too knew plenty of country boys whose voices had broken and they had acquired ALL the listed things by age 12. All that red meat...growth hormones...etc.
nothing quite smells like vintage adolesent boy- and they need to add 'surly' to the list
Note to self? Be a man?! What twelve year old tells himself that he will get ACNE? How grim.
Perhaps this is a dad's note to his son, to shy to give him the 'talk' in person, so he leaves a note on his pillow. That's what my mum did. She left a book about puberty on my bed. Haha.
I thought it said 'tudor arms' at first. How do you get tudor arms? Wear billowing, white shirts and peculiar gilt waistcoat things? Do you need to work out for that?
Balls drop!
It did hit me at 12. Never been the same since.
Hope this wasn't addressed to a girl with gender insecurity issues.
puberty is kind to no one, swimmin.. no one comes out of it without scarring. acne, emotional, or other.
Looks more like a list that a parent would *-off. When all are fulfilled, "My son has entered puberty!"
This looks like an adult's hand writing, not a 12 year olds. Looks like a Jr. High School "health" class talking points.
Looks like a note his Mum found "laying" around, thought "oh so cute", and wrote on the back a title for the note and age of son at time, then put it in the box with all the other embarassing things she keeps - maybe something to reveal at his 21st!
The next installment reads :
Leaving dishes and wrappers wherever I'm done with them
Driving lost but don't need directions
Shrinking clothes in the wash
2 inches of water on the bathroom floor
* acne
B4 I read what was on the other side, I thought it was a list of steroid side effects.
Lets just hope its a little boy that wrote this. Maybe its a little girl that wishes to become a man someday. I'm just saying.....
I have six teenagers and I would have to say the harbinger of puberty for both sexes is B.O. Those kids can smell worse than 3 day old roadkill! I learned an important lesson with my oldest child regarding deoderant. Don't wait until they stink, start reminding them to use deoderant at 9 or 10.
This sounds like someone preparing notes for a lecture or an essay. How grim.
I got the scare of my life when I went home for Christmas, and my baby brother (turning 13) had a really deep voice and was almost as tall as me!
Girls aren't too much better than this though. Excepting the deep voice and chest hair :-S This kid is in for a rough ride!
at least he doesn't have to go thru dealing with having a period every month
This find reminds me of the Post Secret about being punished by God. hahaha!
Oddly, my very first thought was of an actor who received this from an agent as an explanation of why they weren't getting call backs. Wierd.
I once asked a friend, who had a handsome 17 year old son, if she ever lusted for his good looking friends and she said she thought she would, but when they first started coming over she could remember what they smelled like when they were younger. Then I saw "The World According to Garp" and had to laugh when Garp's wife has the affair with the student and one rule is that he had to have clean sheets. One semester as a dorm mom and I understand.
When my son was 8 years old he told me that when he saw a half naked woman on TV it made is private go straight. He was watching Smallville.
hahaha.
stalker hiding in in the locker room, too funny. My son was really stinking of B.O. and I said Johnny (not his real name) you have to use deodorant, he was playing his gameboy and without looking up he yells out in frustration "I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS!"
Okay, I really read this wrong. When I looked at the picture and had not read the caption, my first thought was thag this was a list for things a transexual must take care of before the operation.
I don't know why I jumped to that thought!
big sister, I thought it said cut instead of chest.
I think this is some guy's list of things to look for in a woman. You know, different strokes for different folks. To each his own. Whatever floats your boat. Whatever blows your dress up.
When my oldest used deoderant for the first time, I showed him how it twists up and told him rub it on his armpits after he showers. He took it into the shower with him and applied it before he dried off!
I don't recall having to show my female offspring how to use deoderant.Makes me glad they're girls. I remember having my nephew and his friend in my car going to the beach(along with my two girls... tight quarters)... omg did that car smell.
I think i will, however, take out shares in feminine hygeine products.
Funny how menopause mimicks puberty.
Life *is* disappointing. It starts at a tender age.
Unfortunately 12 is not too early for puberty these days. Kids are starting earlier than generations before. Maybe all the growth hormones and added chemicals in food and such. I feel sympathy for the kid but being the first girl in my grade to get boobs and starting my period at age 9 I think girls have it a wee bit worse.
I think what's missing from this list is 'development of apathetic slouch' and 'inabiltiy to communicate verbally'. Why talk when a shrug will do?
I'm wondering is Orinoco Womble wrote this?
oops...I meant IF. I think you all knew that though!
The tape remnants are interesting - as if this note were taped to his mirror so he could check each day to see how far he had progressed.
If you've got some good facial hair at 12, I highly recommend you try to buy some beer.
I thought the first line was "cheat hair".
I agree with Baby Basil. Must be one of these sex education classes (or whatever you guys overseas call it) where you anonymousli answer the question: what does "growing up" make you think of?
switzerland..
I remember my (male) best friend and I hit puberty at the same time, around 12 or 13... Those were a rough couple of years.
"Augh! she has chest bumps!"
"Why does he suddenly sound like Barry White?!"
PS. I just spent 2 hours at a landfill (long story) and saw some fantastic finds, but they all smelled too awful to send in. Favorite was a Christmas card which read "I know you're just going to return this, but I refuse to buy any of the things you like. Love, Mom"
Yeah. I think odor should be at the top of the list. The list I gave my son was more like this:
Odor-a woman appreciates a man who smells good
Integrity-a man's word is his most valuable possession
Hair-it will grow everywhere
And-always wear a condom
Call me strange and European, but I read this list as things I look for in a man! You can keep your deoderant to yourselves, give me a nice fresh sweaty 'pit any day.
Is 'anonymousli' what nameless SwissMisses have for breakfast??
;-)
a am with Beth- my son is 9, too. and he knows a lot more than I thought he did... some of the naughty jokes in movies that used to go over his head make him laugh now, I am not ready for all this...
CuriousKat, Wombles don't do puberty. They just have "everything hair" from day 1. I realise you've never seen a Womble (which means we're doing our job), but we are hairy all over except the nose.
The only change when coming of age is you pick your name from the atlas. Before that, you're just "young Womble."
hmm... i wonder if mom or dad made this list, doesn't look like 12 year old writing to me...
yep, those were the reasons I left my last boyfriend. Thanks 4 the reminder.
balls dropping?
I know how we hate the spell-check police but I have to do it
de-ODOR-ant = deodorant
thanks I feel much better
Yeah Dirthead, if you watch a lot of bingo or lottery drawings, you'll see lots of balls dropping. And in Oklahoma, we all be IL.
A Womble can pick its own name from an atlas? How fun is that?!?!
That's more fun than picking your adult movie star name (I'm Mitzi Summit) or picking your superhero name (Captian Inquisitive) or picking your bar alias (Raven Stevenson and Kitty Howard among others) or picking your Native American name (Friend with Fire Water).
I shall be Plank Road Womble.
One of the best places to look for womble names (in my opinion) would be a map of newfoundland. you could pick from such choices as:
Jerry's Nose
Nick's Nose Cove
Come-by-Chance
Blow-me-down
Lushes Bight
Bumble Bee Bight
Ha Ha Bay
Run-by-guess
Bleak Joke Cove
Calves Nose
Nancy Oh
Little Looping Harbour
Snake's Bight
Joe Batt's Arm
Dildo
Heart's Desire
Heart's Content
Heart's Delight
Safe Harbour
Comfort Cove
Little Heart's Ease
Sweet Bay
Too Good Arm
Little Paradise
Harbour Grace
Angel's Cove
Cupids
Nameless Cove
Harbour Harbour
these are just a few. I could go on.
My question is...
Do they really ever become men??
I'm still waiting to check chest hair off my list.
Sounds like my "female" roommate. I swear to god she is secretly a man. Aaaaaand she smells bad and leaves food sitting around.
Oh mona, your good.
My roomate in college was lesbian and when I put in a request for a new one my sister said "you're going to live the rest of your life working or dealing with it cause times are a changing, so you might as well get used to it." Good advise. She ended up being the best roomate I've ever had.
Mona, those are too good to be true!!
I'm going to guess Come-by-Chance is near Blow-Me-Down and certainly Ha Ha Bay is by Bleak Joke Cove.
For now I'm sticking with Plank Road Womble.
I teach 12 year olds, and that doesn't look like 12 year old writing.
It looks like my notes on Monday mornings before the kids get there when I remember I haven't done my lesson plan yet. Teacher just doesn't want to forget part of it...
all true, swear to god. (or whatever higher power you might want to swear to)
I'll bet he started yanking it !!!
Yeah, what age do y'all start yanking it, in general? My cousin has a 12-year-old boy, and she refuses to believe that he's, ummmm, developing in this regard.
I remember doing this in sex-ed! you have to write down the changes then you take a quiz... what has education come to?
Hmm I glad I live in Holland judging by your comments.. I never noticed an unusually bad odor with boys hitting puberty... (I say unusually b/c there are always some smelly kids just like there are always some smelly adults...)
Maybe we're just clean, heavy deodorant users over here?
Anyway, I feel bad for the guy :( but he should be glad he's a guy though, and not a girl.... periods suck!
I could be wrong but it seems like we've said almost all that can be said about stinky squeaky sprouting teenage boys.
this makes me laugh
smelly boys are usually named robby.
Mona, Now I want to take a trip to ha ha bay. Or maybe harbour harbour. Those are just too good to be true.
As for the find, I find it quite funny.
If I were a womble, I'd want Little Looping Harbor.
Little Looping Harbour, I mean.
My dream girl was Yvonne DeCarlo. Then she was the co-star on the TV sitcom 'The Munsters.' I was disappointed that my first dream girl was on that show.
frank
my son has discovered girls (or, they have discovered him). Five minutes ago he told me about a girl from school who's been calling his cell phone (another kid gave her the #, supposedly). I asked if she was cute and he said, exasperatedly, "mo-om, she has a mustache and a uni-brow!" hahahaha
it's ok in the end, what you said is correct, for girls, too. haha, and i thought ours was the only house like that. hey, i have an idea! do you believe in arranged marriages? my daughter + your son = ? whaddya think?
this one made me laugh.
boys are dumb :D
so is www.lost.eu/17c95
if no one joins in like 10 hours, I lose :(
Hubby and I have a 19 year old son and he showers everyday. Always has, however, he still needs to wear deodorant.
Plus, he works hard, and plays hard...never run out of soap or deodorant here!
"Dildo, Newfoundland??" Mona, is that for real?? Now we know where John Wilmot Earl of Rochester spent his summer holidays...
@Clover--arranged marriage might give me back some control...yeah! As long as your daughter doesn't have any heavy facial hair? Seems to be a real turn off for boys! And maybe now his older brother will stop calling him "gay"...not that there's anuything wrong with that....
Clover, that might be a better idea than the one I've been thinking of... I was wondering if I should tell his girlfriends never ever to clean up for him. I keep telling him if he meets a nice girl he will run her off with his mess. Maybe I should just set him up with someone equally as neatness challenged. Ha!
basil, your erudition is showing! Heh heh. A felicitious reference for every vicissitude. Is there anything you don't know??
It really looks like a couple different peoples handwriting. Maybe kids comparing what they know or something.
No, Jonathan, there isn't...just can't get my spouse to believe that. Perhaps because I'm not the one who handles the finances/practicalities. But what is life without art? Mere existence! And we all know how miserable the Existentialists are...gloomy sods...
President of the United States (Denzel)Washington????
Yeah, basil, it's a lonely life being omniscient, ain't it.
God knows.
If I was a womble I'd choose Curry Mallet as my grown up name. Seriously, it's in Somerset.
Curry Mallet sounds like a nickname for that thing used in cricket that looks like a bat. Oh--maybe it's actually called a bat.
OMG, I just Googled and yes, it's real. There are several websites with info on Dildo, Newfoundland (a village on the...wait for it...Dildo Headland.) One of said sites appeared on the list as "Dildo Jobs" from allcanadianjobs.com!!
Time to clean the coffee off the computer screen...
Mommy, I want a Dildo job!
Curry Mallet might come in useful for disposing of leftover frozen chilli.
"Cheat hair"? You mean, like extensions? LOL
How one tiny note could describe the entire city is just spectacular.
P.S. Kid, get out before it's too late and you die of cheese steak od
It's a points list for an essay exam. When I studied for exams I made lists like this so I'd cover each topic in the essays.
WHAT ARE SYMPTOMS OF PUBERTY?
Or it's the 'negative' column on why to break up with current BF. :)