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October 11, 2007 |
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Baby I'm Sorry
FOUND by Steve Hunt
in Austin, Texas
Not to be confused with "Baby, hey I'm sorry..."
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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...
Is this the most manipulative load of crap ever scribbled on a day planner page?
ha ha ha ha ha ha this is hillarious i dunno why its sad and pathetic and he is probablly getting dumped but in its own twisted way its funny as hell.
BRAIIIIIINNSSS!!!
Well, that clears up yesterday's Find. Baby Jesus wasn't missing - he just took off for awhile to clear his head; you know, get a little space. And isn't it just like humankind to throw the ball back in Jesus' court? Come on, world. You've gotta carry some of the load in this relationship. Dr. Drew AND Dr. Phil agree.
You guys can be so cynical! This is a really sweet, sincere note. If I got this letter from someone, I'd be sure to respond within 180 days, and the calendar page would help me to remember. And it's nice that she put her name at the bottom so he won't forget who it's from. All in all, a very thoughtful missile.
Whoa, it's the generic "space" note. Cool.
ooooooo...that's a real pet peeve. the ultimate non-apology is apologizing for "whatever it is that i did." how can you be sincerely sorry for doing something if you don't even know what it is that you're sorry for?!? also, thoughtful "missive" maybe? or is there a clever play on words that went over my head?
sounds like this girl is getting dumped and is in denial about it. the first step is to admitt you have a problem! its time to find someone new to call your baby.
I thought that it was only men that gave blanket apologies for wrongdoings that they didn't realize they had committed, but this girl just doesn't know what to do from the tone of this note. (Notice the big loopy letters and multiple plump hearts. Very girly.) This note is both funny and sad and filled with obvious desperation. Poor thing.
Move on, Girlie girl. You're young. Plenty of time, plenty of fishies.
Jan, your comment actually made me laugh out loud on a day that I thought wouldn't turn out so well, but now that I laughed, it might be okay :]
This find is very typical of a teenage girl (duh, I can find them everywhere I go at school) but it's funny that she doesn't know what she did wrong. I agree, I say she got dumped and thinks that he just needed space. Her boyfriend probably read it and threw it on the ground because it's so ridiculous. If she really cared, would she have written it on nicer paper?
I also say that he dumped/needed space from her because she was constantly around him- the planner page IS empty.
Oh, I still feel kind of bad for her. I think that she has so much hope for the relationship. I wonder how it turned out...?
From what corner of Hell did you find this note? Put it back PLEASE. I would want space too If I were with someone who wrote notes on a day planner page. She seems to be desperately trying to please this person or keep them. She should forget about him and move on. Why do I get the feeling that these people are white trash? The 'ya' and 'u' give it away.
And then she probably commenced to calling and leaving a voicemail every twenty minutes.And driving by, and asking people if he'd said anything about her.
Yeah she is totally a stalker. Obsessed.
Aww I feel sorry for this girl. She was obviously unceremoniously dumped. As in, he didn't tell her he was dumping her, he just stopped calling her. The impression I get from this note is that she is hurt and confused, and doesn't want to end the relationship, but also wants to appear casual about it in an attempt to salvage her pride. Oh, and I also think that she probably showed up where he works and wrote it on his calendar.
Co-dependant note from hell! She should have added, "Whip me, beat me, make me write bad checks, whatever you want just don't leave me!"
*yurk*
Hope this poor girl finds some self esteem and self respect before she ends up destroying her life.
Ooooh yeeeah, I definitely hear echoes of "I'll call ya next week, babe, I'm just really busy with a term paper/finals/work/band practice/my gumdrop collection" in this one. When it's over, it's over, Ash. (and I bet she spells her full name Ashlee.)
"I'll call you" is the male equivalent of "I need some time." It just stops them saying "we can still be friends."
It's so sad to see people acting out roles they see on tv.
"I need some space"
"Oh baby don't leave me"
ugh.
Poor girl. I somehow don't think he'll call, baby. Funny that her handwriting is all squashed up on the diary page and she says 'I understand what it feels like to need space'. Bigger paper. Or write smaller.
Comforting to know that there will always be passive-aggressive codependence going on. Ash, count yourself lucky that this loser moved on. "Call me when you want..." Girl, have some self respect. What you did wrong was be a doormat to this guy long enough to think he cared about you.
Translation:
"OH, PLEASE DON'T LEAVE ME! OH, GOD, I WOULDN'T HAVE A LIFE IF YOU LEFT! I'LL DO ANYTHING!!... If I *say* I understand about him needing space, *then* say "call when YOU want", he'll think I'm totally cool with all this, that I'm not desperate for him... PLEASE, PLEASE, DON'T LEAVE!!!"
Just guessing 'cause I've pretended that, too, before I grew a spine and took responsibility for my own life. Yuck. Sounds re-e-e-ally familiar. I'm so glad I grew up.
Even though the spam question was written as "What's 4 times four?" - a combination of numerals and words - it wouldn't let me answer 6teen. Hmph.
Okay, guys. We just can't pass up this opportunity. It may never come again....
"Well if you don't know what you did, I'm certainly not going to tell you."
Ahhhh! Smugness! So this is what it feels like!
Another note written by Burroughs!
Freon: Yeah, I knew a girl just like that, who wrote bad checks and liked guys who abused her. She only hung around these losers for their drugs. Sad. There seems to be a lot of that going around. Perhaps this girl is the same way, if he leaves her then she is cut off. Bummer.
I know Curious in Charlotte, the other day my question read "What day comes after Monday?" and I answered "Everyday", but it wouldn't accept that answer. Go figure! Guess even computers don't care for my smartassness.
omg i remember a situation like this that happened feels like just yesterday...
i'm so glad i grew up.
Poor Ash. We've all been through this. Jerk dumped her with no explanation and she's hurt and confused. What she needs to do now is:
Step one: stop writing despirate notes
Step two: realize he played the 'space' card, which probably means he's not coming back
Step three: get yourself together and show him what he is now missing out on (May I suggest Unworthy's short, pleated skirt?)
Step four: find someone who deserves you
Yes, Sean S., there are many women in co-dependent relationships that only see their worth as viewed through the eyes of the husband/boyfriend/abuser du jour. Very sad, indeed. It's a nasty cycle and I hope she find the inner strength to break it. But before that can happen, it has to hurt bad enough for her to want it to stop. With any luck she may still be alive at that point.
Everyone knows what's going on here. He met some bleached blonde that he thinks he might be able to get in the sack. That's the kind of 'space' guys need. It's all about the sex with boys.
sex with boys? now ash's exbf is a pedophile?
I'm guessing Ash would be the one asking for "space" if Baby were giving her more attention. There are probably at least 3 boys who would love to step into Baby's place, but Ash only wants the one who's hard to get. Human nature.
I would like to talk about names. I think the name "Ash" sounds like something from a fireplace. I don't understand how the name "Ashley" or "Ashlee" came to be such a popular girl's name. It was a guy's name in "Gone with the Wind."
Don't get me wrong, I have good friends who have named their daughters Ashley or Ashlee. And there are lots of nice and smart kids named that.
How many variations of the name Alyssa or Alicia can you think of? How about Kayla, Kaylee, Kyla, Kylie? One year I had all 4 of those in my class... was that confusing!
Clover.... i hope you're returning to bed.. take care of yourself, girlfriend.
Thank you, Nurse. I am in bed. With my laptop. :)
This is manipulative, but in a good way. I had a friend tell me that you should give them space and never ever act jealous (even when you are). Every guy she ever went out with asked her to marry her. So I guess it worked. She went through a lot of them though. Good thing? I don’t know.
Ash just needs to go out and find a hotter boy to drive the point home to Baby. Baby won't care until he sees Ash strolling about town on someone else's arm. Then? too bad,so sad. You had your chance.
Sean S, you are hateful today... :-( very dismal take on the whole thing.
D in WA.. so are you saying that Baby met HotMom? Right on.
Shelly, I'm pretty sure that's the imposter, Not Mona; the reference is to an old Find. (someone else may have the date range, or even the URL. I do not.)
Clover, hope you're on the mend.
OK I guess that about wraps it up for me. Have a great long weekend!
Creepy!
Oh sweetie....he doesn't "need some space"..he's needing to get away from you.
It's over.
But, you are still young, vibrant & now - free. Go forth and enjoy.
Thanks Jan & Curious! That was great! My morning just got a little funnier.
What a pitiful pitiful letter.
my coworkers suggest "collect and select" anyone know if this actually works? i seem to have a crazy magnet that only attracts psychos...maybe ash does too...
Oh, poor girl. Who hasn't felt the co-dependent pangs of teenage love? Thank goodness we all grow up and become more assertive about what we want and need eventually. This girl just needs a few years and broken hearts to realize that no one is worth begging for....
Really, if someone is going to pour there heart out to someone in a letter at least have the Decency* to make it look heart felt instead of half assed.
Nobody puts Baby in a corner! Sorry, just thought that needed to be said.
So glad i'm not young anymore. So funny how relationships are all the same for the young, as they work through the exact same things we all worked through at that exact same point in our lives. Baby needs space to screw other girls. That's what space is for.
Ash, believe me, You will never know what you did, because he will never tell you. The reason that he will never tell you is because it's hard to tell someone "I just got tired of you because you're mildly annoying and i'm not in love with you which would make the annoying stuff cute, so it's just really annoying, and the novelty of screwing you has over time become outweighed by the annoying aspects of your personality."
There, mystery solved, now you know what you did. Find a different guy and leave Baby in his corner with his new Baby.
Yes, you know, you're all right. Ash is stupid, Ash is desperate, Ash is being played.
But maybe sometimes one has to join the game and allow oneself to get played. Sometimes one KNOWS one is being played and has to push for some continued interaction so the playing will stop.
Maybe Ash just wants an honest rejection from some pansy-ass baby who thinks he can walk away without closing this relationship up properly and responsibly. What a loser.
http://www.foundmagazine.com/find/186
Cling wrap.
the writer probably means well, but is playing the, 'i know you need space, but i'm all ready to smother you in your sleep if you need me to' card.
this note reads like something kelly (from "the office") would write to ryan.
Ah, but I do believe this note is from Lisa Marie Nowak (nicknamed Ash 'cause she's a hunka hunka burning love) to William Oefelein, both of NASA fame. When Bill said he wanted space away from Lisa Marie he wasn't kidding, even being on the same planet was too close. Little did Lisa Marie suspect he would be sharing that new space with his other honey. Astronaut love triangles are so messy.
If you don't know what you did, then you're not sorry.
Everyone must pay.
Baby, he's just not into you. Wendy, I forgot all about that one. My sister went to high school with Patrick Swayze. We called him buddy. (I love to name drop) I guess it needed to be said.
I think she would have done better if she had just penciled herself in.
Dear Ash,
Listen up because I'm only going to tell you this once. When he said he needed space, that meant he didn't want to be with you anymore, but still wants to have sex with you if he can't find anybody else,k?
Your BFF,
terrieissovery
I tell myself what's done is done
I tell myself don't be a fool
Play the field have a lot of fun
It's easy when you play it cool
I tell myself don't be a chump
Who cares let him stay away
That's when the phone rings
And I jump
And as I grab the phone I pray
Let it please be him
Oh dear God
It must be him
It must be him
Or I shall die
Or I shall die
Oh hello, hello,
My dear God, it must be him
But it's not him and then I die
That's when I die
What makes people think this is written by a girl?
The handwriting and the hearts, Popcorn.
Although that is an interesting point, it has a completely different feel when you read it in the voice of Barry White.
Too Funny.
Popcorn, the phrase "call me when u want" has never been written by a man.
Sean, you slay me! Barry White!!!1! What a hoot!
LOL. I <3 Barry White! Just think how amazing the world would be if everything was read in a Barry White voice!
In Barry White World, there are no wars, no hunger, no anger and no hurt. Only "lurve"....hahaha
Vicki Carr sang that STUPID song, called
"It Must Be Him" - those are the LYRICS!
I thought it was back in the 40's or 50's....but it was 1967!! Bet that went one wasn't heard much during the "Summer of Love"!!!
Explain to me why nine out of ten comments are labeling this girl pathetic and dependent? It's a very short, very casual note. I'm sorry, I understand, when you want--she's not begging for forgiveness, she doesn't even know what she did wrong. She's also not forcing any contact.
If anything, judge the dumper who didn't have enough balls to leave the girl with respect.
um, this is the real me. I haven't been here all day. just checking in, can't stay.
just wanted to say this is like one of those relationship books my friend was telling me about that said that men are like rubber bands. they stretch out real far and act distant, but if they really love you, they will snap back and want to be intimate again. but they always have to have that emotional separation, at least for a little while, to maintain their independence. if they never snap back, then he doesn't really love you. so don't leave notes on cars that look like his saying how much you hate him but then ask him to page you.
I would never say 'ditto.'
Pessimistic shits, that's funny you named yourself that. People are saying it's pathetic and dependent because that's the way it seems .. simple as that. People are writing their OPINIONS. No need to call us( or yourself ) shits.
Hmmmm, a blanket "baby needs space" Find to go with the "space-blanket baby" Find. Nice.
Oh! Nice work, Dr. Crisis!
"I'm sorry... but" isn't an apology.
This reminds me of my ex who once told me that his mother once advised him that any time he wasn't really sorry he should say "I'm sorry you feel that way."
Turns out, he was never really sorry.
Midlife Crisis: What about Baby Jesus? I sense a maternity theme here. Did someone at FOUND have a baby?
This kind of looks like something someone I know would write.
...that's not a good thing.
Sean, you nailed it with the Barry White twist. Kudos!
G'night, dear Found friends.
My advice to Ash via the Sweet Potato Queens, "Never give 'em any, treat 'em like shit and they'll follow you around like dogs."
Works for me every time.
wow.... so this is what it feels like to recognize an item from someone you know..?
i'd like to say that i helped contribute to her understanding "what it feels like to need space."
sorry, ash, i just made you a public humiliation.
Sean, funny you should ask.. someone at Found recently retired due to the imminence of parenthood.
Not sayin' it has anything to do with anything.. but are there really any "coincidences"?
synchronicity...
(which came up as the answer to a quiz question on BBC Radio 4 today -- coincidence or what?)
(What was the title of the most successful album by the Police?)
Nah, that wasn't the question. It was 'What was the term coined by psychologist Carl Jung to refer to a meaningful pattern of events that occur simultaneously without an apparent causual link?' or words to that effect.
x
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicity
Not giving much SPACE are we? And to the poster who thought only men gave "blank apologize" wake up..realize...women arent so far off from men "now-a-days".