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Do You Smell Like a Pig?
FOUND by Kasey Williams
in St. Charles, Illinois
My school bus carries elementary school kids, and afterwards, the middle school kids. (Yeah, me being one.) This was left on the floor from the elementary school, and was stepped on by a bunch of tiny, snowy feet. My favorite part is Aly's response.
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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...
happy birthday to you!
you look like a monkey and you smell like one too!
jeez kids suck!
I agree sam!! Kids are Horrible! I remember back in Jr High this one girl wrote in my yearbook something about me looking like a pig, even though she was one to talk (hideous!) it gave me a complex for like a year Hmmm anyway stupid kids!
*gives mean kid a wedgie*
I used to give riding lessons to elementary school kids. I still have nightmares about how horrible they are.
I hope Aly steals the note writers boyfriend in high school.
Did the note writer expect an answer other than "No"?
I'm impressed. The kid's closing is copyrighted.
Did "c" have to ask in a note? Couldn't he have just sniffed her...
"Oh yeah, it's this new scent I've been trying.. Eau de Cochon. Do you like it?"
Nonsense...pigs have an excellent sense of smell! Without it humans would have no truffles!
Pigs are clean animals when they are allowed to be. No pig smells worse than a 22 yr old man who doesn't use deoderant.
I wonder if she threw it on the floor after writing her response. If I were her I would think he would not even deserve a response to such a stupid question.
It would suck to smell like a pig.
Passive-aggressive little animal thinks he can escape his calumny be putting his insult in the form of a question; makes a good case for the reinstatement of public corporal punishment. I'd paddle the little turd myself.
Passive-aggressive little animal thinks he can escape his calumny BY putting his insult in the form of a question; makes a good case for the reinstatement of public corporal punishment. I'd paddle the little turd myself.
@Ghost: I'm with you. The first thing I noticed was the copyright symbol. Excellent!
Which is worse? Smelling like a pig or LOOKING like a pig? Penelope?
"C" IS a pig! He also smells like cat URINE!!
Just for asking a girl a question like that!
How dare he...HHMMPPHH!
Great Find, though!
Thanks, Kasey!
Aly may smell like a pig, but she can shower.
Copyright can shower all he wants but he will still be an @sshole.
Ahhh youth.
how terrible. whatever kid wrote that probably sat with his/her friends watching her read the letter, laughing... I can imagine it now.
why are kids so cruel to each other?
She should reply : Do you brush your teeth? Cuz I can't tell.
My cousins used to play a game with their younger sister, where they would ask her a mean question ("Ashley, are you ugly?") and if she answered no she would get a smack upside the head. Hopefully this isn't a silent version of that game...
On a more amusing note, I was out with my niece and nephew at the park when some kids started mocking my nephew and make him cry. I made some comment to my sister like "the smaller they are, the crueler they can be,” and as if on cue my three year old niece went over to her brother and loudly said (so the other kids could hear) "Don't cry. They're creepy and I hope their peepees and their noses are going to fall off." the kids were speechless and my sister and I were doubled over with laughter. The best curse EVER!
Justice will be served about 20 years from now, when Aly makes headlines as the prosecutor who put a certain Mr. C away behind bars for 15 years on domestic violence and animal cruelty charges.
When my middle child was first starting to talk he would replied to everything with an enthusiastic YEAH! So we asked him questions like "Tim, wanna eat a shit sandwich?" "YEAH!" "Hey Tim, can we lock you in a dark closet?" "YEAH!" It was hilarious. Then he started understand us and it wasn't funny anymore. Good curse, I hope their peepees fall off. LOL!
Alice, that is priceless!!
Hopefully this child had an equally effective retort.
I just had to comment on SueBee's funny ways to have fun with her kids. OMG, shit sandwich? yeah!!
Also, I hope Aly has a big sister/brother that beats C up after school! I know my big sis would.. hmph!
Also, i wonder if Kasey is really Aly, Just saying, and she bought us this find so we can rip C apart, and make her feel better.. IDK but it might be. LOL Maybe she wants us to come up w/ some mean things to say about C so she can tell C those things Monday @ skool! yeah, i said skool.. So C could understand it, C's stupid.. Ok I was just having some fun there! -fun's over.. back to what you were doing!
kasey seems quite mature and level-headed for a middle schooler. i wish i had known about found at such a young age.
Sue Bee:
You asked (I'm assuming) a toddler if he wanted to eat a sh** sandwich?! I hope that comes to bite you in the butt one day.
More than the find of the day I find it FASCINATING that most comments make it a point to mention how cruel kids can be, and yet we see examples of adults being downright NASTY and disrespectful to each other EVERY DAY on these boards...
Cruel kids learn from watching adults, and adults often are mean like little kids to each other too. Tolerance is something kids must learn - by the time we're adults, we're supposed to have incorporated tolerance into our lives to a T :)
(oh and this from a person who was bullied by the entire school until she was in 8th grade, when she finally switched schools. Kids used to tell me that my mom tried to abort me and it didn't work, that's why I came out the way I did, or that I was a malformed fetus, oh and of course my parents divorced because I was so ugly. Ah but the best part was getting pee poured over my head out of a soda can... or maybe it was the time when they pushed me against a tree and I had to get stitches? No, it was definitely the time they threw me in the toad-infested pool in the winter.)
Phew, that got personal!
I'm not going to be the best parent in the world...probably far from it, but I've learned enough from other's mistakes that children are very impressionable...you say stuff to them when their little simply because you think, "they don't know what is being said" but that is a common misconception. Children as young as one can acquire the habits of their parents just by watching them do it a handful of times (ie cursing or being cruel to each other).
I don't really want that to bite you in the butt Sue Bee...but understand that something as seemingly innocent as asking you child if he wants to eat a poop sandwich can have a big impact on them when they get older.
I have to agree with Gin as well. I have two teachers in my family and five friends who are teachers and I hear about this kind of thing all of the time.
Gin,
I was the recipient of all kinds of spectacular abuse and torture throughout my school career. In addition to countless dead arms and rat tails, I was once given a handful of Nerds candy, which turned out to actually be fish tank rocks.
As to your first observation, in my case it was dealing with all those sadistic little fucks in my childhood that prepared me to deal with whatever shit anyone tries to give me as an adult. Picked-on kids are usually pretty helpless against their cruel and nasty torturers, whereas most grownups eventually figure out how to hold their own (at least in inconsequential situations like Internet forums).
Farmer, paddling turds sounds like it could get pretty messy-- even if it's only little turds. Sue Bee, kids remember more than you might guess. Watch your back. Revenge is proably sweeter than a $#!+ sandwich.
when I was a kid and rode the bus, there were some REAL jerks on the bus. It wasn't segregated by age, either- the high schoolers rode the bus right along with the Kindergarten kids. Lots of smaller kids were victimized by older kids for no good reason. But we all survived. I'm sure Aly will, too.
"consider the source and rise above it"
Hugs for Tonic. And Aly. And all of us who have been victims of bullies. Look how cool we are now!
You don't know how happy it would make me for the kids on my bus to pick up stuff from the floor and submit it to FOUND. Not only would we see a bunch of cute things they draw and little love notes and such, my bus would be infinitely easier to keep clean!
P.S. There is a boy like C would rides my bus and I have to change his seat every day. I can't sit him by the same kid more than once. It's so sad. He makes everyone cry. I don't want to kick him off the bus, but I don't know what to do with him!
*There is a typo in my above comment, but I will restrain myself from correcting it, so as not to piss off the Anti-Grammar Police...
(How do you spell that raspberry noise again?)
Flargy: I totally agree. I think I'm as balanced as I am in life because of my experiences growing up. I also just truthfully don't give a sh!t about any of those kids, haha.
I think that there are those of us who have been victims of bullying who have grown strong enough to overcome, but what worries me are the ones who just aren't as strong, and can lose themselves and their opportunities later on in life. And then when I see the news about bullied kids who go into schools and gun other kids down, it's just so sad.
Nightingale: Thank you for the hugs! And you take one yourself :)
Winston in Durham, I'm sure you didn't mean any disrespect, but you sound very sanctimonious and this isn’t the first time we’ve heard searing judgment from you. I believe you blasted Tess not long ago as well. You need to step back! These are not likable traits.
Sue Bee=Pepper, you've got a lot of nerve pointing out unlikable traits. A lot of your comments are very bullying to fellow commenters here. Many of us wish you'd just step off.
Gin inthe Tonic.. Aw, i heart you! I was reading the other day about you talking to Mona Lisa and it was so cute! It broke my heart to read about people being so mean to you in school! People were mean to me, too. Then one day, I just didn't take it anymore & had to drop out. That's in the past! I know it still hurts us both but now I have a great like, & I'm sure you do too, and I bet those losers in school would kill to be us!!! I feel like singing that "Chin Up" song by that goose in Charlottes Web..
I know what I'm gonna do! I'm gonna go and find all those little bastards from my childhood, and I'm gonna make every last one of them eat a shit sandwich! Or maybe even a shit sundae with fish tank rock sprinkles! YEEEEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!
Oh Flargy and Gin in Tonic! How long did this go on? I did have one big girl who would torture me in sixth grade, but I told the teacher and he made it stop. I guess I was lucky.
Hey Sick of bullies and fight in g back, What are you talking about I've never denied being a cyberbully.
@Rebel: I spell it "Thhtbthtbhtbhtbhtbthtbt!" Tends to get the point across.
My nephew and I actually have a lot of similarities, and like him I was horribly bullied growing up: We've both been hit, pinched, pushed, punched, burned, sat upon, called names, told we are going to hell (me for calling my mother by a nickname and him because he has "two mommies",) thrown down stairs, told we were accidents, and ostracized. He has now been diagnosed as having ADD, Autism, Aspergers, and Tourettes, and has been placed in a special Ed class. I find myself wondering how much of the behavior which led to these diagnoses (small ticks, crying, difficulty or reluctance to express himself, lack of desire to play with anyone other than his sister, and small incidents of self harming)are the result of the bullying rather than anything else. I was fortunate in that as soon as my parents could they pulled me from the school and placed me in a private, alternative school: My behavior improved dramatically and now all I have are the memories, and a dent in my upper thigh where I was hit with a stick when I was seven.
If you're asking me if I smell so good people can't help wanting to eat me, then yes, yes I do smell like a pig.
Hugs for Alice and her nephew, too. That's so sad. You know how they say 'what doesn't kill you will make you stronger"? Sometimes it DOES kill, or cause irreparable damage.
Bullying is abuse!
Sorry if I seem to overly blast people...I will tune it down.
I was bullied alot in Junior High (it died down considerably in High School). I was so anti-social though by the time I reached High School and later in college that people took me to be a snob. It wasn't that I didn't want to get to know others, it was that I felt I wasn't good enough to know them. That and I was constantly consumed with contemplating what others might or might not being saying about me. College helped me grow out of all of that for good. I look back to all the bullies in my life though and I think, where did I go wrong? But it wasn't me that had the problem then, it was them. Gosh, to think what their parents put them through that encouraged them to come to school and take it out on other kids. Sorry I'm so unlikable Sue Bee, but I wonder if you don't contribute to school bullying??
Wait, when did I blast Tess???
Tess, did I blast you? Sorry =(
Winston in Durham jesus what are you, Baptist? You are a piece of work.
Nope not baptist, not meaning to judge either. I'll just stop (putting shoe in mouth)...sorry I must be having one bad day at work or something
Sad, sad stories... But hey, now we can all look back at and pity the cool people of high school, so many of whom reached the peak of coolness around the age of 16. How sad is that.
I was talking to a friend of mine last night... He is one of those over-worked teachers that you read so much about: Too many students, low-income school district, no resources etc. He was telling me his theory that it's the little things - like this note - which have the potential to do the most damage because school officials are more likely to brush things like that off. He said if he has two students, one of whom is receiving hurtful notes or being called names and one of whom is being physically tormented, he will focus his energy on the kid who is being beaten up. He was bullied as a child, but was horrified to hear himself tell one of his students that the kid needed to “just ignore” someone who was calling him a freak. He said that with some students it’s almost like a game, whittling the abuse down to the smallest and most psychological torture they can manage – Ostracizing, pinching, poking, muttering, rumors – things which the teachers will be more likely to brush off because they are so busy and it is less likely they’ll get called on the carpet by parents for letting that behavior continue. Remember when you were a kid and wanted to see how much you could get away with? Nine times out of ten they’re not thinking about the effect it’s having on the victim.
He is now making more of an effort to address all issues, but sometimes it’s hard and usually by the time the kids get to his grade-level they are under the impression that telling won’t do any good.
Pepper=Sue Bee=Norma Jean=Herve, etc.,
You're a hypocrite, a cyber bully, a troll, an "imposterer" and a bad piece of work. Many people here are intimidated by you and won't stand up to you for fear of becoming your next victim. Stop it.
Winston, you don't owe anyone an apology here.
Really, I'm sorry Sue Bee. I just have seen some pretty bad stuff in my time (done to kids) and I think you first comment put me over the edge today. You may not like me but that doesn't matter to me. I don't post to make friends but I am civil...so sorry.
And now I'm laughing because I just looked back at all of my comments and they really have nothing to do about commenting on the find....I'll definitely stop commenting now.
Here's the funny thing about the internet: It allows people to say whatever they want to someone, without ever actually having to meet/see the other person. There is no inflection/tone of voice, there are no facial expressions: There are only words, typed in a certain order to try and convey a meaning which may or may not translate correctly.
I wonder what would happen if you took everyone who posts here and put them all in a room together face-to-face. Would the rude people still be rude? Or the favorites still be so well liked? Just an idea…
I’m probably going to get virtual objects tossed at my virtual head, so I’m going to crawl back under my rock and hide:-P
Sick of bullies, I think you've overestimated my ability to intimidate. I sure most just think I'm a joke.
Where you guys get the ideal that I'm Pepper cause that's just not true. I'm Sue Bee and I feel that I've always been respectful when posting.
Well, if it isn't Aly that smells like a pig, then just WHO is it? Something stinks, that's for sure.
I don't think I'm overestimating that one bit, Pepper. Just today you've intimidated Winston, and she had a very valid point to make, whether you agree or not. Monkeywrench feels like hiding under a rock, and just look how many of the "regulars" haven't even showed up today. People don't feel safe when you blast them for no reason. It's not a joke when you imposter. It's hurtful and abusive.
Monkeywrench, good point, and no I would never be this rude anybody to their face. In fact I'm very charming in person and well liked. I really don't understand why anyone would take anything said on here personal. Does it really matter what Jonathan in England or Mona in Canada think of me or anyone else for that matter? I was incredulous to see what Sick of bullies said about fear of being the next victim. That's ridiculous, I’m sure the last thing on their mind when someone post. That was probably written by Mona or Chrome.
Sounds like your pretty hot for me Pepper
Wow- After reading through these comments, I see that a lot of people HAVEN'T gotten past the childhood need to call names.
I am so glad I grew up and got past that!
@Flargy... what's a dead arm or a rat tail?
Wanna trade your handful of fish-tank Nerds for my cat turd in a Tootsie Roll wrapper? After that my nickname was Turdsa.
What I'm saying about the intimidation is true. Of course, as a bully, you can't see it. And it's not about what anyone thinks of YOU, it's how YOU make them feel about themselves.
And how does one not take being called a cunt personal? We are real people, Pepper.
I still think your hot for me...here all this time my comments were directed at Sue Bee and yet, you always had your little .02 cents to the mix...Yep, I'm convinced.
(hmmm...now how to let you down without hurting your feelings...hmm.)
You're a liar, Pepper. You are the only imposterer.
Wow, Gin, out of your list I have to vote for the pee dumped on your head out of a soda can. That's definitely one of the most humiliating things I can think of. I'm sorry that happened to you.
SueBee, I laughed hysterically when I saw the shit sandwich line. That's something I would do! I'm curious, in exactly what way would that harm the psyche of an 18 month old, even if they did recall it later? Might they be concerned that someone might really attempt to serve them an excrement hoagie? And if so, would that be a debilitating condition? I thought it was hysterical.
If you guys liked that, you'll love this - my friend's six year old daughter came down to complain that my four year old wouldn't share. She asked her "are you hurt?" and when she said no, my friend said, "well then quit being such a pussy and get back upstairs!" Told ya you'd love it.
Winston is female?
Yep.
shit in your sandwich, thank you for seeing the humor it that story. YEAH!
Gin had a pretty long list, huh.
Winston's just having a bad day.
I wasn't talking about the Psyche...it's just that kids pick up on those lines, then they go to school and repeat them. Plus, you only making it okay for them to call others names. If your okay with that, hey it's your child, your life.
Oh shit sandwich, your six year story was a riot. I'de like to meet you friend, but I'm sure some will chime in to say how damaging that must have been for her.
I just don't agree with it is all. I as stating an opinion and I am having a bad day but I just ate a snickers and I'm not judging I swear, I just disagree and am stating the fact.
By the way, where is Mona, Turbo, Tess, and the rest of the usual commentors. I need a pick me up from Turbo (he cracks me up!)
@winston: what in the hell are you on about? sue bee's kid is going to remember her asking him silly questions as a toddler and... what? i think the liklihood of the kid remembering is pretty much zilch. what do you remember from when you were learning to talk?? and what if he did? are you kidding? sue was having some fun, and there is laughter in her house. i don't see it as cruel at all. chill out man, it's friday.
your right, your right. Maybe it is one of those instances that I had to be there to enjoy it...doubt it but who knows.
Hey, am I late? Sorry. Have we started therapy yet?
I think everyone present thinks I need therapy! LOL
Turbo, you're just like a blister. You show up when the work's done. But Terrie-is-so-very is serving pork sandwiches for lunch, so you're just in time.
@Smoking in the bathroom - Thank you for seeing the humor in that! I live with several small people and I've got to say, the only way to stay sane enough to get through it sometimes is to laugh. At everything.
Wow, get it all out folks!
Wouldn't want anyone to miss a chance to make hateful, negative comments to people they barely know and will probably never meet.
Sue Bee, everybody has different ideas about what is acceptable to teach to children. As long as you aren't actually feeding the child a shit sandwich, it's all good.
Marty DiBergi: The review for "Shark Sandwich" was merely a two word review which simply read "Shit Sandwich".
that's what is going through my head after reading all these comments.
Thanks Stalker, I think only Winston was the standout. Why did someone think I was also Pepper too? That's scary.
I know it sounds weird..but there were comments posted that I didn't make but now they're gone. Can somebody do that?
@rebel: no doubt. personally i think one of the most important things is to teach kids laughter and not be so damned uptight around them. they will definately pick up on that.
@stalker: you're hilarious.
Well...I guess they can.
Whoohoo! Pork samiches for everybody!
It's like the scene in "The Hobbit," when Gandalf impersonates the trolls to keep them fighting long enough for the sun to rise and turn them all to stone... Only instead of a fictional wizard throwing his voice so that mythological monsters won't roast and eat his dwarf friends, real people out there somewhere are pretending to be other people posting on a message board in order to keep an on-line "fight" going.
*whew!*
Lance Pants Boogie Dance, I thought showing up after all the work was done made me management.
Coffee Johnny? No thanks!
I wonder if Aly even received that note? It all looks to be the same handwriting like the kid just wrote the question, showed it to their friend(s) and then wrote in "No" underneath as something more to laugh about.
Can I buy you a beer, Boss? How about a pickle to go with Terrie's pork tenderloin sammich?
Let's keep it civil, people. There's clearly some impostering going on.
Here at FOUND we're way more excited about making projects with the awesome stuff you send in, than babysitting the commenting section.
Good news! We're getting close to finishing up a round of changes to the FOUND site which will keep you from getting your identity stolen. And it'll make commenting a little easier for you all. Until then, we've got your names and IP addresses which makes it really easy to see who's spoofing who (is that an Aretha song?). We got plenty of other stuff to do today.
Love,
Dad
It almost looks like it says
20. You smell like a pig.
As if this is but one page in a pile of pages of reasons that (C) doesn't like Aly like (maybe) Aly likes (C).
Each page, featuring one of the 101 reasons it'd never work between them, provides Aly space for a rebuttal.
Turbo, are you hiring?
...on second thought ...
maybe the note was written by some poor kid with a smelling handicap. Maybe the kid was in a horrible accident and lost his/her nose. Maybe he/she comes from a tiny genetic pool of people who are incapable of detecting any odor. And maybe this kid had heard or seen other kids remarking on Aly's supposed odor and so this poor kid was just checking the facts.
I'm feeling sorry for (c) with that awful invisible handicap. The whole thing kind of chokes me up. Sniff, sniff. [oh, sorry, that was uncalled for.]
Turbo, I can provide a good reference: Chrome Toaster is really HOT!
Thanks Dad. Can we go outside and play now?
Brain Problem,
A dead arm is when a prepubescent boy punches you in a certain spot on your arm, with his knuckles angled just the right way so that your arm goes numb for a split second, then really hurts for a few minutes. A rat tail is the old trick where the same little fucker winds up a wet towel and uses it kind of like a side-arm bullwhip, leaving welts wherever it hits. These are the things you learn among the elite children at private schools (one of them being a boarding school).
It took a lot of stick-to-it-iveness, but I eventually managed to get myself thrown out of both of them - two of my proudest achievements thus far in my life.
Little kids can be so cruel, and sometimes teachers really just don't care. I spent much of my 5th grade year being called a Nazi because for a class project we had to give a speech about our family heritage, and I chose to talk about my german side. Both my teachers and my parents refused to acknowledge it was going on. Although it has been years, and I am well over it, I do feel that I missed a good chunk of the happy times I should have had.
I do think kids pick up a lot of their behavior from their parents, older siblings, and the other students. Although I do feel that some bullying will always occur as kids in different grades sort out their 'pecking order'.
All the comments today remind me of when I was a kid in the back seat with my sister and cousins driving to the store and arguing over the littlest things and calling each other mean names just to see who would cry first. Then Dad would turn around yelling "if you don't claim down right now, I take away Found for everyone" We would then play nice until the next trip.
Thanks "Dad"/Jason for bringing us back to adult world.
@GEOE: The Nazi talk happens in all age groups. My best friend (“A”) is from Germany and I have German heritage, and when we were in college one of our roommates (“B”) was in the process of converting to Judaism and liked to point out how hilarious she found the living arrangement. When my friend objected, B increased the comments. When A reported the behavior to the RD, she was told “well you could see how this situation could be uncomfortable for someone in B’s position.” B compared it to making an African American individual live with a Klansman, and A eventually moved out.
Bwahaha @ Alice Looking N theGlass. Funny story compary that to an African american living w/ a Klansman. That made me laugh out loud for some reason.. Not as much as dad coming on here and saying "Quiet down or I'll turn this damn car around" but, eh, to each is own!! yep, to each is own!!
Spam? i go to the zoo for a toothache!..
If you listen closely, you can hear the sounds of peepees falling off.
And I am hiring. The position requires you sit in a bar, listen to music and drink beer. It don't pay much (nothing) but it's better than nothing (nothing).
@Turbo: Yep, the peepees are dropping like ripe fruit.
I need a beer... Stupid job, driving me to drink!
anyone seen eagle vs. shark? grown ups avenging childhood misdeeds is perhaps not as satisfying as one would imagine...
I love this site, And I just had to post one more time, to make sure I knew how to not have the word In, twice in my name and location.. LOL Oops! Maybe a bully needs to beat some brains INTO my head..
I like the tiny snowboot tread marks on this Find.
I spent most of my grade school years dodging pennies being thrown at me. I am of Polish extraction (OK, I'm a Polack) and the kids thought that meant I would run after pennies. Not sure why. Once one of the boys glued about 20 pennies together in a sort of bar and winged it at me in the middle of class. It hit the wall and exploded apart. Dork.
If feel bad for little Aly. That was another thing they said, that Polacks stink. Not nice.
Living well is the best revenge. I like to say it's never good to peak in high school (or grade school for that matter)
Flargy, are you a lawyer?????
Turbo:
I'm heading to the pub in 54 minutes. I'll keep chair free for ya.
Gin & Flargy:
I went through the same kind of crap every day of my life from 2nd to 9th grade. I ran the gamut from full bottles of paint thrown at me on the first day of school, ruining my new clothes, to being pushed into a hornet hive during our 5th grade field day, to having slush puppies thrown at me on a daily basis, to notes like these, saying "Catherine, please kill yourself, everybody hates you." to having my locker broken into and filled with sandwich bags full of dog shit.
I grew up to become a bank teller and it has become my sincere pleasure to deny accounts to at least three of my tormentors =]
Wow, I submitted this so long ago, I forgot about it! Thanks for choosing me for find of the day, I'm honored. Sorry it had to cause so much e-drama though.
I, for one, have a different take on this story and actually sympathize with the elusive (C).
I think that our (C) quite fancies Aly and longed to communicate with her by way of love note. However, when pencil came to paper, his mind went blank and he couldn't think of the proper way to ask her if she held the same feelings towards him as he had towards her. So instead, he scribbled out the only question that he could muster and handed the note to Aly, anxiously awaiting her loving reply.
Unfortunately, Aly barely even knows that (C) exists, and upon receiving this note she dismissively replied "NO" and had it delivered back to him, giggling with her friends and not giving poor (C) a second thought.
When he received her terse response, he was heartbroken. Crestfallen, he let the paper slide from his hands and slouched into his bus seat, chin aquiver, dreaming of the day that one day the perfect sow-scented love would oink her way into the hole Aly left in his heart.
@D You are so right. The best revenge is living well. I do not condone violence, but there are times when the best solution for a bully problem is for the victim to go totally ape-shit and pound the bully into the ground.
Ape-shit always makes me giggle... Serve the kiddo an ape-shit sandwich!
@Librarian - Bwahahahahahahaha! *gulping air*
Bwahahahahahahahhahaha!
(Oops, I just peed myself a little.)
Jason, suspense kills me. Will we have to pick just one name and stick with it? I have just a few that depend on my mood, and I like them all. Please don't make me choose. I'm not mean.
After reading all these comments I'm still just laughing at " Turdsa ".
And I think the shit sandwich story is very funny.
Yeah, please don't make us stick with just one posting name- it makes us too much of a target for certain people
I looked at this Find this morning and thought 'boring -- no one's going to have anything to say about THAT'.
Hmmm... how right I was.
Monkeywrench, you are spot on. And yes, I have got to know some of the 'favorites' on here and they truly are very special people.
Pepper, I have never voiced an opinion about you one way or the other and no, who cares.
Jason, thanks. Sorry the Infants' class has been so noisy today.
Hugs for those with genuine feelings and true stories to tell, and for those who stand up and fight back, and those who make us laugh in spite of it all.
Raspberries and shit sandwiches for the small-minded bullies, impostors and motiveless troublemakers.
Thank you and goodnight.
If Jason will ban the imposter, I would post with my real name, address and home phone number! And my MySpace URL! And an 8x10 color glossy of me in sexy lingerie!
Don't worry, D. I'm not a lawyer, nor do I play one on TV. I have, however, spent 9 of the last 11 years working in law firms. Cinnamon Anemone, on the other hand, sounds an awful lot like a criminal defense lawyer to me.
The comment above this one may not list Eggs1234 as its author, but it sure smacks of his particular brand of perverted bribery.
I am most struck by the incredible coolness of Casey the Finder, who is in middle school!! You ROCK!!!
If only I had been tuned into such interesting facets of life in MS, I would have enjoyed it much more - and I think I speak for many of us. By 10th grade I was myself again, but 5-9 grade - conformist yuk!
I wish more kids who are chronically bullied would tell their parents.
KASEY, not Casey. Sorry.
Today my daughter, who is only-FOUR-for-Christ's-sake, and in Pre-K came home and told me that the children in her class told her that she was ugly and that they hated her. She named three little girls.
This is just going to be the beginning for her. I know it. She has springy cork-screw curls and a darling little space between her front teeth. She doesn't look a thing like the little heifers around here. She doesn't act like them, either. The other kids are going to be relentless with her, I know.
So, Marie, or anyone else, really, what do you think a parent should do once their child tells them they are being bullied?
I told her to tell them all to eat shit sandwiches next time.
It seemed to ironic, considering today's discussion/debate amongst my friends at FOUND comments...
@Flargy: Criminal defense lawyer, ftw! And all this time I thought I was just writing from the POV of a hopeless romantic. ;)
Brain Problem,
Your daughter already has one major advantage in her favor. Do you think any of those heifers has her very own Good Ship Lollipop? Not likely. Please don't dress her in one of those little sailor outfits, though. I can already hear the other kids humming the music from the Blue Oyster bar.
Cinnamon, what does "ftw" mean, other than "fuck the world"? Whatever it means, it's appreciated that you were writing from the POV, and not the PIV, of a hopeless romantic.
@Flargy: ftw == "for the win" It means I liked your comment. As for PIV, I reserve that kind of writing for a different type of story!
Thanks Jason
@Brain problem:
She does have an advantage that her mom is smart and is raising her to be strong. You are lucky she told you, keep the door open so she continues to tell you. There's always gonna be some lil bitches in life and she should seek out the real friends (strength in numbers). If you can, make it a point to volunteer at her school while she's young (like up to 3rd or 4th grade, if you can) so you can see what's going on. Be her advocate. She sounds like a doll. I bet she'll be a real knock-out when she's grown.
Thanks to JASON and others who provided the labels on the "next" and "previous" buttons, as in my ambidextrous Womble world I found them confusing...always hitting the wrong one.
The difference between boys bullying and girls bullying was explained to me the other day by a 10 yr old girl: Boys try to see how much pounding, kicking and wedgy-ing the chosen kid can take before he cracks. Girls just see how many times a day they can reduce the chosen kid to tears...and they go for a new record every day.
Thanks y'all. She does resemble Shirley Temple quite a bit. You'd better bet I will be volunteering at her school. I just went to have my TB test done the other day specifically so that I can go volunteer.
Just don't blame me if their generation's preferred insult is "Go eat a shit sammich."
I was just thinking about how interesting it is that so many of the Found regulars were bullied as children. I wonder what a psychoanalyst would say about that.
hugs to the bullied readers.
@Brain problem: Try getting her involved in other things with other kids. Kids @ church or a dance class or something like that. If she knows there are other kids that are ok with her, the kids @ pre-k won't seem so important.
Keep in mind, though, that when she snatches up some little snot by the hair and threatens to FEED them a shit sandwich, they probably have it coming.
Most of us were bullied in some way as kids, I think. Some sort of cruel evolutionary thing. But it is interesting that we all seem to show up at Found...
I distinctly remember that the worst part of being bullied/having no friends was, at least for me, trying to find some way to sit alone at lunch and convince yourself and other people that you are alone by choice. For me, the bullies always made me end up spending hours putting myself down. I wish more than anything that I could see those kids again and tell them they did to me, now that it's all over and I'm a little more courageous and articulate...
brain problem...
The first thing I would do, and you may have already, is talk to the teacher or spend some time in the class, to find out the *truth*.
I have a 7yo and 3yo, and I have learned that what the pretty honest 7yo tells me, sincere and believable though it is, is usually quite far from what actually happened. And he leaves out stuff HE did. There have been times he made it sound so sad for him, then I found out that he was the worst one in the situation, and the story was entirely flipped around by him! They also may be misunderstanding something.
He has recently told me that he had NO friends at school, and that none of them like him. I was at the school for a couple hours yesterday and it was the complete opposite!
Of course, even if they are exaggerating, etc, they are doing it for a reason and should be listened to. They are not trying to trick you.
If your girl really IS ganged up on and has no friends, and you and the teachers work with her (maybe she is shy, or inadvertantly rude, or got off on the wrong foot) and the other kids, maybe she should change PS. I doubt her appearance has much to do with anything, and she deserves to be in a happy place.
Good luck!
@ D in the 10-Pin Lounge: I had a dear friend in highschool/college of Polish extraction who got so tired of being called in a special, drawling voice, "Heeey, Poooole-aaack", that he finally snapped out: "Can you speak Polish?" The reply of course was "no", to which he said, "Hey--how's it feel to be dumber than the Polack!"
FTW. Definitely owned.
just wondering, who would say yes to this question?
Kermie would!
Can you imagine how mortified Pepper would be if her true identity were revealed?
C went on to live a full rich life with lots of money and babes (whatever those idiots want a lot of). You see a note like this and there is an outcry against c, but admit it, girls love jerks...
my older sister and her friends used to bully me, then they used to tell people that i went to school with that i wet my bed and all sorts of other crazy stuff when i was in 5th grade. i'm 23 and i still to this day have severe social anxiety. i won't go anywhere by myself and i always feel as though everyone around me is juding me.
Shame that Aly will probably never read this and still feel like he's fighting his own little battle. It'll be cool in the end.