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Nah, Let's Ride Bikes!
FOUND by Bookworm
in Los Angeles, California
I checked a book out of the L.A. Public Library and someone who had previously checked it out left a receipt for some other books inside it. Sounds like they got distracted while doing research…written on back: "Nah, let's ride bikes!"
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let's see, ritalin book ... ADD book ... shiny thing in the corner of my eye ... BIKES!
oh, wait, what was I doing?
maybe their ADD kid is driving them so crazy that, if the first two books don't help, they'll go about sending him to the moon?
the American Apparel girl in the blue organic cotton t-shirt looks like she's feeling herself up...or maybe she just has a wedgie. in the front.
isn't that a joke? like
how many kids with ADD does it take to screw in a light bulb?
hey, let's ride bikes!
i've read it somewhere before. and i totally cracked up.
I don't have ADD! Why would you say I have ADD?! Oooh, look a rocket ship!!
This is the most boring Find I've seen ... but maybe that's because I'm a librarian. You got your barcode numbers; your titles (truncated to the same number of spaces); your date due. Yawn.
If my attention drifts today it's because of boredom, not ADD.
I'm one of the 30% who kept their ADD from childhood into adulthood and find the "let's ride bikes!" hilarious. With family and friends "Look! A bunny!!" is our inside tagline that my mind's gone wandering in the weeds - again.
Freonz, I totally grok that! Just mention the word "penguins" and apparently you get a startled look from me followed by a 2 second pause and then, "Wait--what?" and a totally new topic.
It seems the LA Public Library computer system has ADD/ADHD too. It starts to tell us the whole title of each book, but then gets distracted.
If you weren't so damn distracted, you could be the second man to walk on the due date.
Totally weeeird. I was supposed to start my daughter on a ritalin based medication today. The pharmacy ran out, so I couldn't do it.
At first, I thought the titles were intentionally and cleverly left unfinished. Then I read Librarian's comment, and sure enough, each title cuts off at 48 spaces. Still, it's kind of cool when a computer inadvertently makes a joke. (Unless someone intentionally checked these particular books out together, knowing how the receipt would print out.)
So thanks, Librarian. At least there was one thing worthwhile about your comment.
Turbo, that's hilarious. Julse, that IS weird.
Darcy, that's one of my favorite jokes! I was about to leave a comment with it myself. Another great joke is this: What do a duck and a bicycle have in common? They both have wheels... except the duck!
Pamplona...that's awesome. that's my new favorite joke. easy to remember!!! hehe
Ok, here's something geeky that I found funny: 22 is the same as 4 except for the nines.
For my husband it would be..."Nah, let's take a drive...ooh what's on the radio? What's that hun, I'm watchin the curb" <looks back at radio>. Yup...sometimes I want to send him to the moon.
Librarians are ALWAYS worth while.
ADHD?
Must get on with... er... I'll just check out FOUND... Now, what I was supposed to be doing?
Jonathan, you just read my mind! LOL Here let me go ahead and sta...wonder who's said what on Found?
Ritalin may not be the answer, but it sure does help. Boo to the preachy-preachy naysayers.
@ Freonz freaking hallucinations
huh? I don't get it
I'm a preachy naysayer. Did you know a study was done of kids diagnosed with ADD, and those that took a 30-minute walk in the woods regularly no longer had ADD? Did you know most kids, especially boys, *require* large motor stimulation - ie, playing outdoors - to be able to focus? And that's not happening because the pressure to perform on stupid achievement tests has meant cutting down on recess time?
Anecdotally, many families I know with kids who were diagnosed with ADD, once they began unschooling with their kids, allowing them to be who they are and do what interests them, no longer *needed* medication. They're able to focus on what they love, and they're not forced to focus on the BS that schools say is necessary. It's a beautiful thing.
Don't medicate kids to force them to fit into a system that doesn't serve them. Free your children! Let them be kids!
Preaching over.
Uhh... other than that, kind of a boring find.
In preparation for writing a function, I was researching the concept of modulus and came across the quote "22 is the same as 4 without the nines." This means if you remove all 9s from 22 you are left with 4. It was just such an interesting way of describing division with remainders that I found it amusing.
ohh that makes so much more sense now, thanks!
A) I love this find! I actually snorted when I read, "Let's ride bikes!" I am having a really bad day (and week and month) and all I can do is wait for my luck to change. This made me smile.
B) @Freonz freak in g hallucinations: what? how is 22 like 4 without the 9? Is that an ADD joke?
C) I believe the parent is the only one that can make the decision to medicate their child with ADD/ADHD. Do not medicate because a doctor or a teacher tells you to, but because you believe it will make a difference. If you have doubts or are uncomfortable with medication, don't do it. Your kids will eventually be fine; I know because I raised an un-medicated ADD/ADHD boy who is now 17 and shows no more symptoms. The years 3 to 15 were tough, but I guess he grew out of it.
@nadine, I botched the quote in the explanation it should have been "22 is the same as 4 except for the nines." The rest still holds true. Look two posts above yours.
@Curious - *applause* But there are some children who are wrongly diagnosed w/ ADD/ADHD. My younger cousin is one of them, he really has a malfunction in his brain that requires medication to operate properly. It was wrongly diagnosed for about 5 years. Nowadays Drs seem to turn to ADD/ADHD diagnosis for any problem, instead of researching deeper. Instead of turning to medication immediately, they could try alternative therapies and see if they cure the problem. If they don't, then re-evaluate your first instincts, they might be wrong.
@nadine - 4+9+9=22
My boyfriend was diagnosed with ADHD just a few years ago (in his late 20s). He always felt that "he lacked focus." He was put on Adderall and it's changed his life. Even though his ADHD didnt prevent him from succeeding (he is now in a PHd program), he now feels he has a better quality of life. So, from his example, I think that drugs do sometimes help. Too bad it has other side effects, however...
Freonz--love it!
I'm not ADD/ADHD.. I'm multitasking!!
This Find's timing was perfect.. just this AM a friend and I were doing a little research on the T.O.V.A test, mostly for the sake of curiosity, but also to be armed with a little more information.
I know that the general consensus is the medicate the "unmanageable" kids until they fit in, but I'd really like to know what kind of studies have been done on the long-range (lifelong) effects of being medicated out of how you're wired to be.
I know that sometimes it's necessary. But when they start testing 4 to 6 year olds and medicating all of them, I have to wonder how many kids are medicated just because it makes it more convenient for the parents and educators to manage them. (unplug them from the tv, go for that half hour walk, and see if there's a significant change)
Thank you everyone! Math is not usually my friend, but now I understand.
This made me laugh: My little nephew (4) was recently diagnosed with ADD, (his mother is opting not to medicate him at this point in time,) and whenever he spaces out on something we say “Brandon, you’re on the moon!” And then he snaps out of it and does an exaggerated moon-walk around the room:-P
Actually, ADD/ADHD is somewhat of a joke in my family, since you can pretty much tell the timeline of when doctors started diagnosing it regularly by looking at my cousins and me: The oldest five (37-24) are not on any meds and were simply referred to as “energetic” and “talkative” with “slight concentration issues if not entirely captivated by the task at hand.” (Quotes taken from a teacher’s evaluation of my cousin and me. Same age, same class: Poor teacher!)
The youngest three (19-4) have been given all kinds of lovely diagnoses including (but not limited to): ADHD, ADD, OCD, Tourettes, and Extremely High Functioning Autism/Aspergers.
As both my mother and my aunt have observed, the youngest three behave almost exactly the same way we older five did at that age. Does that mean we older ones have all kinds of undiagnosed problems for which we should be medicated? Or does it mean that doctors are getting just a bit too free with their diagnosis these days? *shrug*
Medication can be the answer, but isn't always. It's just so easy to snap-diagnose and hand out the pills for a quick-fix. Sometimes the problem is outside the child, or environmental. If you don't go deep enough to discover the roots, but just treat symptoms, the problem will go merrily on. Taking Hershey's Instant Chocolate Milk away from my brother changed *his* life. He went from hyperactive horror to normal kid in 3 days. I don't know what's in Hershey's but it effects me the same way...one chocolate kiss and I am wired like NASA's computers.
CRAP! That should read "Affects" me the same way.
The earlier ADD jokes remind me of "You're not the only dyslexic kid on the bloke, now put down the gnu!"
When my kids were small, if I gave them Kool-Aid, they would turn into completely different kids. I stopped giving it to them a long time ago because I decided that there is something in it (artificial colors, flavors, who knows what?) that is very wrong.
I'm not going to get on a rant about the bazillionty things that are wrong with our food supply...Bah. Not to worry, I'm sure they're coming out with a pill for it anyway.
@baby basil: I know what you mean. I had kept my "energetic" kid off of sugar as much as possible. I could really see a difference when he ate sugary snacks (like one time, I let him have a hot chocolate before we went a trolley tour of the city; he was on the back platform screaming "whee" at the top of his lungs).
Learning from the experiences of my hubby and from my younger cousin, I think that if one of my kids has ADD I will not medicate with Ritalin. I'm not sure about Adderall, I don't know much about it. Both my hubby and my cousin were medicated with Ritalin when they were younger. It was beneficial for them in the beginning but after a while they both began having suicidal thoughts. My Aunt decided to take my cousin off of the medication. She tried a different approach- lots of exercise, home-schooling, and no sugar whatsoever. My hubby took himself off of Ritalin and learned to focus his attention without it. He still has His moments (see earlier post) but He's learned to cope.
You know what's a shame? It's so easy to get Ritalin for your kids, but if a "grown-up" wants a liiiiitle Ritalin, just to stay awake and type faster. NOOoooo!
What they need to do is figure out how to bottle up kids' excess energy and pass it out to us grown-ups. 8-)
I remember an old episode of Conan O'Brian where he made up fake children's books titles...one was something like "A Family's Guide to Coping With Attention Defecit...Hey, Let's Go Ride Our Bikes!" Never gets old for me, either.
lol, I was cracking up all the way down the comments page. Clearly, this has to be an intentional joke by the person who wrote on the back of the slip, it is just too funny.