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April 23, 2008 |
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Ugly Kids/Hairy Kids
FOUND by Michael Levitt
in Chicago, Illinois
I found this note in a K-Mart parking lot.
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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...
I can see Pauli took the "You better keep this" warning to heart. Awww, poor Frog Star.
I would way rather have milagro tortillas than a 'hello kitty' anything. Pauli got ripped off - probably why he 'dropped' the note.
I love that it was written three years ago to this day.
i love how "the nicest letter" frogstar's ever written ends with "You smell!". wonder what's in the nastiest letter he/she's ever produced.
kittie? KITTIE!? ARGH!!! It's right there on the damned thing you're holding! sigh.
I think up to that point it WAS the nicest letter he/she had ever written, but actually indicating that on paper caused Frogstar to have second thoughts, thus insuring the "P.S." would have a bit of nastiness in it.
So I read this and well when I was finished I had well a pretty negative reaction to it. I don't know why, though, cuz it seems like well any other note written by someone who puts well circles over her eyes. Stil, ick.
Ah, the joys of the inside joke! This note is full of running gags, punchlines of old jokes or conversations that only the writer and the reader remember or know why they are funny. The PS is definitely one of those! These 2 have been friends for, like, forever, and communicate in taglines.
But it's definitely a goodbye note: "You've been a great person to know." That's kind of sad, because even though the writer (a girl, seeing as we bought a Hello Kitty thing instead of tortillas--no boy would do that, so as not to be SEEN in the shop!) promises to keep in touch, you can bet she won't. Oh, she'll mean to--it just won't happen. She might forward a couple of email jokes, but that'll be it.
@Farmer--circles over her EYES? Surely you mean i's? It's part of being preadolescent and female--at least she didn't use little hearts or smileys!
i'm a young teenager, and a girl, and i don't think i've ever dotted my i's with circles like that. i've always had kind of angular handwriting, and you have no idea how much it annoys me when people say 'oh, this must be a young girl 'cause the letters are round'. sorry for the negative vibes, but this is just SO. ANNOYING. how the hell can people tell the age or gender of who wrote this by their handwriting??? that's right, they CAN'T.
(basil, this is not directed at you, or anyone specifically. i'm not trying to start a fight.)
*deep breath*
carry on.
You ALL smell.
Well, gee. I hope that they do stay friends. Nice find, I'd say. But yes, the tortillas would have been a much better gift (and I am a female).
My question : Because of the fold in the middle, I was wondering if this was a blank card or a piece of note paper ? If it was a blank card, I wonder what the picture is on the front cover.
I don't like iy when people refer to their kids in negative ways. I also got the feeling that Frog Star is using poor Pauli -to babysit her kids. The writer sounds young from her message but handwriting is so individual I don't think age or gender really can be told by penmanship.
If Frogstar wasn't leaving Pauli, then I think it must have been the other way around. I mean, 5 whole days after Pauli's birthday (he's been WAITing for those tortillas, thinking of nothing else!) and then Frogstar drops off this Hello Kittie instead. With a note. Can't even tell Pauli in person. The nerve! That's what smells here.
And when you get down to it, a Hello Kittie does "taste just like chicken" but nothing at all like a milagro tortilla.
Ah disappointment.
"dearest of paulis"
i'm going to start all my love letters that that way from now on, pluralizing the name of my recipient and dubbing them dearest of all those who share their name.
@smell: relax. there are no kids. ugly kids and hairy kids are an inside joke referring to future children. childless youth often joke about future offspring like that.
No way. Hello Kittie doesn't have a whole store (do they?). She went to K-Mart for the tortillas and instead happened by the Hello Kittie isle and couldn't resist. Poor Pauli.
Translation:
Pauli -
I know we've been joking around and being friends for a while, but I want you to be my boyfriend. This Hello Kitty represents my heart - please don't just toss it away! Can't you see how I feel?
Forever,
Frogstar
She's wanting to take a *teensy* step toward more than friends, but not wanting to scare Pauli away. Especially since admitting she'd like him would mean she was NOT the hip, non-caring person she presents herself as. Not that I've ever done anything remotely like this. Oh, no - even in my awkward, geeky, teen years, I had a handle on direct, honest communication. HA
What a bitch! She promises tortillas and gets a Hello Kitty trinket instead? Friendship CANCELLED!
This letter reminds me of the movie Juno, but it predates it by a few years. It seems like the sort of letter she would have given to him.
Today is Flargy's Birthday! Have a fun Day!!
@chillin, yes, hide your daughters, hide your wife, there really are Hello Kitty stores devoted soley to Hello Kitty and the other uber-cutesy Japanesse characters that serve to separate young girls from their hard earned allowences.
I believe this is a teen-aged girl to teen-aged girl letter, not girl to boy. The ugly kids and hairy kids are more than likely pets. Ugly kids could be frogs (Frogstar's ugly kids) and Pauli's hairy kids may be dogs and/or cats. Or I could be wrong and Frogstar's got a moray eel while Pauli has an orangutang.
They're not talking about real kids; "ugly kids" and "hairy kids" are just what they call their pets.
Thanks, Nightingale! How did you know?
Oops, Freonz already said that. Now they're not gonna let me have any cake.
Flargy, it's your birrrthday! You can say what you want when you want and still have your cake. :o) And you can have Edith, too, if we can find her.
Happy birthday, Flargy!
If I ever get another pet, I'm going to name it Frogstar.
I named my third daughter Flargystar.
She is neither ugly nor hairy.
We've got "Frogstar" all wrong. Try "FrogPentagram" and consider ugly kids to be the spawn of Satan. Pauli's into cultus lupus (wolf worship) and lycanthropy. She metaphysically mated with a werewolf. Now she's got hairy babies. This is what happens when children are left unsupervised.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
I WANNA GO HOME!
If someone wrote me a letter saying they hoped God blessed me I think I would seriously question my judgement of that person's ability to rational thought.
Yes, there is a Hello Kitty shop downtown in the European city where I live. I couldn't believe it either. I mean, how many flat surfaces can you paste it on? It was a nightmarish experience even though the shop was tiny. The tinkly cutesy background muzak (yep, there's a Hello Kitty CD) didn't help a bit.
Am I the only one who thinks that "Pauli" is short for "Paulina"?
Did you know that "Hello Kitty" is not a product company, per say, but a corporation that sells the licenses to use the image and name only. Anyone can buy the rights to place the Hello Kitty image on anything, as long as it is not sharp or poisonous. There's even a Hello Kitty sex toy:
www.randomimage.us/23236.html
Meow.
Hello Kitty is a character owned by Sanrio. The girl probably went to the Sanrio store. Hello Kitty is not a company or a corporation. I don't know about that other stuff, but in my personal opinion, anybody who would want a Hello Kitty dildo, has issues.
Happy *day, Flargy.
I wonder if he wanted tortilla chips or actual totillas..yum
@ Curious in Charlotte- I completely, 100%, fully agree with your translation. It's exactly what I thought. Especially with the little references of happiness and blessedness his way, thanking him for things just to sound overly appreciative and nice, and that they will always be in each other's lives.
I wrote letters like these in middle school when I thought the boys were too stupid to realize what my real intentions were. I thought they'd just think I was the cool, down to earth chick that wasn't emotional and hard to figure out, putting tons of direct pressure on them.
I'm sure Hilary in New Haven is right -- they're joking about babysitting future kids.
And Basil (first post) is right -- two girls, best friends, full of in-jokes and tag lines we wouldn't get (which is the point of them). But why can't the sentiments expressed be genuine? Wishing blessings, love and thanks seems very nice to me.
Sure if they're both on MySpace they can keep in touch.
Hello Kitty is everywhere. I went past a store in Oxford Street, London, the other day (and no, I wasn't tempted to go in).
Good heavens, I see they're in Harrods and Bluewater as well:
http://www.sanrioeurope.com/news/archive.asp
@Smell in g, I was the finder of this note. It was a small piece of notebook paper, not a card. There was nothing on the reverse.
I think the frog is the Sanrio character, Keroppi (don't ask me how I know that).
Also, I agree with Clever. I think the star is really a pentagram.
@Flargy: How did I know? I was astral traveling through the psychic underworld and saw the calendar on the fridge while your mother served pepperoni pizza to Jenn and your other friends. I believe the year was 1984. Boy, you had some ugly, hairy friends!
http://www.foundmagazine.com/comments/432
Nightingale, allow me to be the first one today to say...that's just creepy. You must be the person who posts here as "Stalker" too.
Oh, and did you notice that really hairy kid in the corner with the pepperoni stuck all over his ugly face? That was my friend George "The Animal" Steele.
nice pentagram...? and farmer, i put dots over my i's... don't hate >:(
This note is definately written from a girl, to a girl. I didn't deduce that by the handwriting, it was by the content. Also, I agree that the 'kids' refer to pets. Oooh! and nice idea with Keropi, I bet you're right!
How lame that the quickest way I know 45/3 = 15 is because of the microwave?! YAY for the California school system!
This is really cute! I tell my best friend that I hate her and that I am her Arch Nemesis...O_O not really sure why she keeps me around...
Sorry to creep you out, Flargy. There's a fine line. I could've just said, "you told us your birthdate on another Find", but I couldn't resist the chance to shake you up a lil bit.
Was that PEPPERONI on the Animal's face? I thought he had a skin condition. He was really developed for a 10 year old, wasn't he? Wonder what he's up to now? Haha!
Hope you've had a great birthday!
This is a priceless find. If only people would find the weird inside joke notes that my friends wrote in middle school... hee hee.
Happy birthday, Flargy.
I concur: teenage girls with inside jokes. Not from the handwriting, but because I'd say stupid things like this to my friends, too.
I find this note weird and disturbing...I am not quite sure why.
Yes, definitely a "girl-to-girl" letter. Also, I live in Toronto, Ontario and just around the corner from where I live, we have a large Mall with tons of stores. Anyway, there's a Korean Grocery store there and inside that Grocery store is a "Hello Kitty" store. It's bright, pink lights, it's OWN music playing in the background, and lots of young, teenaged (and younger) girls in there spending their babysitting money!
The "Hello Kitty" store even smelled like pink, baby-powder??
perhaps i didnt notice, but it seems no one has mentioned about the ugly and hairy kids.
or the fact that this letter appears to be written by a teenager with *kids*(mutliple). thats a tad disturbing.
This reminds of Jr. High and it makes me really happy! My best friend and I had an inside joke about how I was going to have ugly children. (We were talking about Viggo Mortensen and how his parents had to have known they were going to have a really hot son or they wouldn't have given him such an awkward name. I said that I would give my children cool/awkward names like that but then with my luck I would have really ugly kids whose ugliness would only be worsened by the fact that they had really weird names.) I know it doesn't seem very funny to people some because it is an inside joke and it isn't suposed to make sense, but I thought I would share.
I will watch your hairy kids.
and, well...
"Hairy, ugly kids" are probably what I call "Monsters." PETS!