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I Have to Go
FOUND by Paul
in Altona, Manitoba
Found on a high school staffroom table.
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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...
oooops. Scratch that. I don't have to go anymore. Sorry.
Maybe written right before this one:
http://foundmagazine.com/find/778
This is hilarious. I wonder the circumstances under which this was written (as opposed to said). I can picture a kid with knees clenched pointing frantically to the note, a look of desperation on his face.
I do too....
The kid and mom were in a parent-teacher conference or maybe an IEP meeting, and the note was better than saying it out loud. I do not know why it would have been crossed out, though. That's weird.
High schools are veritable treasure troves of found items.
what no skill question?
ok well I guess he dosn't have to go anymore....
Hmmm... seems like the big-red- 'x' is 'cause now it's too late to go anywhere to go!! Not a situation to envy!
Reminds me of this one:
http://foundmagazine.com/find/222
"Just kidding, I don't have to pee."
Or maybe she/he couldn't hold it anymore, and crossed it out after having an accident?
Katherine, I'm with you...Mom, I have to pee...OOOPs, not anymore.
I bet she sat there making "don't interrupt" faces at him/her. The virulent red crossing-out would indicate either "cross your legs" or "I'm not going to listen." I hope they made Mom clean up the mess.
maybe he was being punished and sitting in the corner and his mother wouldn't let him talk. I bet the mom was sorry after that X out. We all know what that must mean.
This note makes me have to go....
....went
Perhaps one of Magritte's early efforts.
"Mom, I have to go to the bathroom" is potentially more ominous than "I need to pee." Mom should pay attention.
I sent in a pee found, but it has yet to be posted out of the 12,000 founds every year. It said "I went to the bathroom and he just stood there watching me. I told him I couldn't go while he was there and he said too bad. Now I have to pee really bad."
When you gotta go....
High school? this was found in a high school staff room? that's bizarre. A younger sibling, accompanying mom to a parent teacher meeting? I dunno.
"Mom, I have to go to the bathroom"
"Well, no time like the present. Here...'X' Marks the spot!"
"Ahhhhhhhh......."
Do you suppose the "MOM" is also the teacher?? Just odd that it was found at a school. Unless of course the "MOM" is a teacher and brought it into the staff room to show the other teachers what her cute little son did. Who knows!?
MOM, I NEED NEW PANTS!!! SHIT!!! LITERALLY!!!
Maybe "Mom" is also the kid's teacher... I remember when I was younger my mom was my girlscout leader, and in an effort to be fair to the other kids she sort of ignored me. I bet this kid has been raising his/her hand for the past ten minutes in a desperate effort to get Mom's attention, and finally resorted to a note. They were so humiliated and angry that they crossed it out and left it on Mom's desk in the pile of homework.
Wait, I'm confused. Handsome Dick Manitoba has to pee?
"Tough noogies Kid. You should have gone before coming to school."
turbo? you're very very weird
Turbo, are you implying that Canada is a dictatorship?
Of course not. We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune.
Come and see the violence inherent in the system, eh?
Help, help! I'm being repressed!
This is sweet! Except that this poor, innocent child's 'mom' is NOT!
Hope she had some 'hands and knees' scrubbing or picking up to do!!!
You're all just fooling yourselves, you know.
When ya got no place to go.... write a note.. write a note... write a note!
Bloody peasants.
Hey Need in g Coffee STAT!
My Mom and my older sister were BOTH my teachers in school. My Mom in elementary, my sister in middle school. Those were the WORST days of my whole educational history!
My Mom made me call her "Mrs. XXX" for the whole year, and it finally got to the point I just called her that at home, so I could remember at school.
My sister made an example of me constantly, and narked me out to my parents for every little miss-step I made in middle school, which were many!
That was the first thing I thought of when I saw the find. It was some teacher’s kid who got stuck in the lounge, who had been told "You must be TOTALLY quite!!"
Quite, yes....dry and clean? Not so much....
Where did you find that find Pepper?
I had my comment for this all planned out and then when I opened the comments, The Captain in Tenille had already made it.
Good job. Hah.
Cotton, you mother and sister sucked at the educational arts... Quite!
How did your Dad feel about your Mom being know as Ms. Triple X?
Actually, they were both GREAT teachers, if you weren't their daughter/sister. In defense of my sister, it was her 2nd year as a teacher, and she mellowed and got better at it with age. (Both being a sister and being a teacher)
Dad though Mom was pretty hot! (and she was!)
Of course I just used the Xs because I didn't thing the actual name was important.
FWIW...
In my elementary school, when we had to get up for the bathroom, we had to raise our hand showing the number 1. For a drink of water, 2 fingers. It was always fun when new kids came in and we told them that we had to hold up which bathroom "duty" we had to do. One kid, was gone forever and when he came back the teacher said, "you were gone an aweful long time for a number 2". Kid said, "that's how long it usually takes me." We all couldn't stop laughing.
Cotton: My mom and the other troop leader actually had a meeting concerning whether or not I should have to address her as "Mrs. Jones." They finally decided it might be too weird for the other kids(!), since everyone knew we were related, but I was placed under strict instructions not to call her "Mom" too often. (Ie. Instead of "Thank you Mom," just say "Thank you." Or "Mom may I...?" just say "May I...?") I finally dropped out and went punk to rebel. A bit cliché, but hey.
@ Confussed - Great use of confussed!
Flargy, I think the only part of Canada that is a dictatorship is probably Jayne County. (and if you get the connection, I commend you)
You see, I really had to go, but then I had this insane exam. It was so terribly grueling, and I sat down before I had a chance to relieve myself. By the time I was finished, my insides were all moved around. My brain was no longer in my head, my heart was in my throat, and my lungs had been completely deflated. I was so unbelievably stressed that I could not go pee, for I was not completely certain of where it would then exit my already strained body. Unfortunately, the note to my teacher was intercepted by a crazy fan who has a crush on me, and he never got the it.
Midlife Crisis in California said:
Perhaps one of Magritte's early efforts.
ceci n'est pas une trouvaille
all I have to say is genius
Found on the floor of a UIL competion at the College were I work.
Love, Fergie. Oh nevermind, I'll wait til I get on stage.
My mom was a substitute teacher and it always sucked when we got her as substitute. Students never pay substitutes very much respect and it is really uncomfortable when it is your mom up there!
I remember once when she was subbing at a highschool, the students flipped her MG midget upside down as a prank.
Good one, Danna!
lol, brain problem situation in my head. I was going to say that, but i didn't want to pick on other people's spelling.
oh, and thank you, turbo
Hey pepp, where you been?
Oh God, don't encourage him/her cookie.
This find reminds me of the movie "Magnolia," where the kid on the quiz show has to pee and nobody will listen to him. In the movie, it comes to symbolize how children our treated in our culture, which is what the movie was about. "We should treat children as if they are angels," says one of the characters in the film. At the very least, we should let them pee when they have to.
I bet the parents were at a parent/teacher meeting and the kid was too young to leave at home, so the parent brought them along. Not wanting them to hear what's being said about them, they were to occupy themselves in an empty classroom nearby. The kid had to pee, didn't want their parents to come and find an empty room, freak out, and think a kidnapping took place. So the kid taped this sign on the door when they left, and crossed it off on the way back, realizing it didn't apply any longer.
are treated...sorry
Much "ado" about nothing.
Blackbird, you won't believe the stupid notes one finds in a high school computer lab...
Recent research shows that red pen corrections are traumatizing to students.
For some reason this strikes me as a part of some game--maybe charades or a treasure hunt or something. And the big 'X' means that they did it or found it or whatever.
Clover, that just screams 'cocktail hour' to me. Or in my case 'cocktail hourS'. Cheers!
To CuriousKat, my (pretend) daughter: "Cheers!" to you too! Or as my (real) daughter used to say when she was little: "Chairs!"
I was going to come back and ask someone to explain the Fergie reference, but then remembered that I have a friend named Google. I entered fergie+stage+pee, and boy what a fun hundredandtwentyseventhousand hits.
Poor Fergie. Gotta go gotta go gotta go right now.
my 8-year-old niece and I write notes to each other in church sometimes. She always crosses out her notes after I read them, apparently it makes her feel better. She also calls me Aunt Pickle. Favorite nickname ever!
Clover, the people running our educational system alternately try to protect us from anything bad (which eventually will lower our tolerance levels, I'm guessing) and imposing ridiculous rules and plethoras of unnecessary, tedious, mind-numbing tests. Comparing last year's students to this year's students is absolutely insane. It proves nothing and means nothing. Standardized test scores only prove who's better at that kind of test. *Rant over*
Night in gale, what an amazing pun!
Thanks, Alice. I think the big red X shows that the writer is "pissed" off.
Ok, ok, I'll stop.
as a mother I can relate to this note. it is amazing the things kids write when they can just say them. of course, this could have been a situation where mom was on the phone with a business of some sort and said to the children before making the call: "DO NOT talk to me while I am on the phone unless you are on fire or bleeding- bad." In which case the kids write 200 letters and shove them in your face during your 5 minute phone call with the Realtor... or am I projecting here? sorry.
I love how in the middle of these comments there was a small Monty Python rant. Amazing.
there is always room for a monty python rant. always.
Upon further reflection, it has become glaringly obvious to me that what this kid really wanted was to go into the bathroom and play with his red correcting pen! Duh!
Monty Python & The Holy Grail: Quite possibly the most quoted movie of all time. It's just so goddamn quotable! No go away, or I shall taunt you a second time!
I always wondered whats the point of crossing something out if you can still read it.....
When I was a little kid my Dad's office was located in our house. He was on the phone a lot so I used to write him notes when I needed something and then would wait for him to get off. Once he got a cell phone I would do this a lot in public also. My guess is the child had to go pee and their parent was too busy so they finally just went by themselves. After they got back they crossed it out so their parent knew it was no longer an issue.
No you do not Jimmy! You will sit! (scribble scribble)
...wait ..nevermind... no I don't.