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September 07, 2008 |
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Cell Phone Grandma
FOUND by Susan Cockerham
in Berkeley, California
This was found while walking around the streets. It is a paper cell phone with a nice message to grandma inside.
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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...
Dont' you hate when you mess up the cute little picture at the end of a lovely little message, and you have to make it into some big hideous flower, and try to conceal the fact that you messed up the cute little picture?
Wow.. this kid is always gonna love Grandma. Like no matter what. Does this kid want the inheritance, or what?
I'm sorry. The shape of that paper just looks like the peel-off strip from a panty liner.
We Wombles are all about recycling, but honestly, making a cellphone out of a panty liner is taking it a bit far.
The handwriting does look old enough to be someone who is of an age to use them. Let's hope Gran is too old to have used them or know what they are! (Good luck.)
...And I-eee-yiiii..
will allllwaaaayyys loooooove yooou-oooh-hoo-ooo...
"BOBBBAAY!!"
@Orinoco: LMAO! You know they're making Grandmas a lot younger than they used to.
This is a bit heartbreaking. I'm assuming the child's grandmother has just passed away and he/she created this little cell phone message to help her deal with the sadness of having lost a grandparent. Panty-liner shaped or no, it's still pretty sad.
I don't think it sounds like the Grandma died - Usually when someone dies, you think of them (the deceased)as no longer being with us (the non-deceased) ie: "I'll still love you even if you're not with me" as opposed to "I'll still love you even if I'm not with you". It sounds more like the grandchild is moving to another city, or going home after a nice visit with Grandma.
- and yes, I used a calculator to double-check my spam protection answer -
I've noticed they're making cell phones thinner all the time, but paper-thin?
Wow!
I'm thinking that a small child drew the little flower and then dictated the message to the parent, who wrote it down. Child is probably moving away..."no matter where I go."
awwwww that panty liner made me tear up-
I used to write notes around christmas to my grandma after she passed :'(
screw santa lol
You're right Nightingale, my Grandma is younger than I am! (just kidding)
...then Grandma crumpled up the cheap paper imitation cell phone and threw it out the window of her late model Buick. "What do I know about these cell phone things?" she mumbled. "They don't have dials; you can't listen to those darned recordings and push the buttons at the same time; and those young people always have them glued to their ears, not paying attention to traffic or even to the people they're with."
Sadly, Grandma hadn't noticed the message from her only grand-daughter had carefully penned on the other side in her best printing. Little Eloise was being moved to Arizona by Child Protective Services, and didn't know whether she'd ever see Grandma again.
The next time they 'met' was after Grandma was already six feet under. Eloise, now grown and on her own, stood at Grandma's grave and spoke the very same message into the phone, pressed the 'call end' button, and laid the phone on the top of Grandma's gravestone.
She never came back.
Jeez Librarian, I think maybe you've been reading too many short stories in between checking out people's books.
(I love the public library...it's my favorite place in the world...)
@ Teacher ... trying to wrap my head around the concept of "too many short stories".
Spam protection: What is the number before 66965?
Me: Hmmm, I wonder if that means "whole number," cuz, ya know, there are a whole lotta numbers in between the 'whole numbers'....
Between a teacher and a librarian!
grandchild leaving a goodbye not to Grandma after a visit. Must have dug the panty liner out of the trash (I am old enough to be a grandparent and still young enough to use panty liners..if I wanted to, of course.)
I can't believe that this looks exactly like a panty liner. Really, you guys aren't kidding.
Cute little note, redundant though the message may be. What's the little square attatchment at the bottom? Looks like a mouse face or something. I don't get that at all.
I must be knee deep in PMS, since not only did I weep openly at this letter, but I assumed that it was written AFTER grandma had "shuffled off to buffalo" if you know what I mean.
My grandma died last April and I miss her every day. Something always makes me think of her and I get this new fresh ache of realization that she's not down in Palos Heights sitting at the kitchen table watching Oprah, waiting for me to come visit. :(
@ Just Me
Yeah, I thought the little drawing at the bottom was a mouse or something like that, too.
Actually, when I draw little rodent faces, they are always guinea pigs, but most people don't guess that first.
awh i miss my g-ma
i luuuurve my gma too.
she gives me money, makes good food
and is basically the hub of our family,
i wrote her one of these kinds of notes while i was in rehab. not as cute though.
when i get older, i'd be happy to be half the woman she is.