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November 12, 2007 |
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Joey
FOUND by Lisa Bergman
in Long Beach, California
Found in front of the Long Beach Aquarium. I feel bad that grandpa is sad but I feel just as bad that Joey is having a heap of Grandpa guilt dumped on him. Hopefully the hug made everyone feel better.
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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...
this totally reminds me of Little Miss Sunshine... after the grandpa dies... :(
also, a friend of mine solves all problems with hugs, and it really isn't always appropriate. However, in this situation, it probably worked out just fine.
Poor Grandpa. I hope he got his hug.
And the handwriting looks just like my grandma's. Weird.
This is kind of pathetic for everyone.
I wonder how Grandpa would feel if he knew people had to say "please" so he could get his hug?
oh man, I love grandpas who feel left out. they make great movie/book characters
"please hug grandpa, and give him a hug" ? or is one of those words "bug". I would like it much better if it said "please hug grandpa and give him a bug"
oh yes, the classic guilt tactic. Well intentioned, yet so disturbing!
Maybe grandpa is the name of their pet lizard, and he eats bugs.
I like that instead of flipping the paper over when she ran out of space, she figured she would just write in a circle or something.
Also, she seems irritated. "For SOME reason, grandpa feels left out."
Like "Man, what a dick he is. For caring that people pay any attention to him. Doesn't the T.V. keep him company enough?"
I think grandpa is underappreciated.
I also really, really don't like whoever wrote this.
Poor Joey.
Kid, go hang out with your grandpa. I'm sure he's cool as shit.
Note to self: Go hug Uncle Bulgaria...
Some of the oldsters who complain most about "slobbering" etc when you hug or kiss them, actually love it and would miss it. But emotion mustn't be shown...too sad. Especially men, they were taught in those days to be "tough".
"Give him a bug" may be the family equivalent to "give him some sugar."
I don't hear this as the writer being impatient, but perhaps Grandpa has trouble accepting demonstrations of affection from other adults; from your grandkids it may be easier/more acceptable.
Awww.. that's cute and sad :(
I hope granpa got a hug :)
I'm so glad my family is not huggers. (or kissers, cryers, or winkers)
I don't see this as someone who is irritated or pushy. I see this being written by that person that everyone has in their family who constantly tries to make everyone happy and comfortable, and she wrote this note as a discreet way of making sure that Grandpa (who tends to fall asleep in the recliner and kind of tune everyone out) is included in the festivities.
Awe. Poor Grandpa. I'd feel awful if my family, especially my grand children forgot to hug me, or if they treated me poorly just because I was old and didn't understand the new century.
Dear Grandpa
You sit in the recliner all day watching football, the news, Gunsmoke, dozing on and off and ignoring the rest of us. Then you have the nerve to whine to Grandma that YOU feel left out? Why not involve yourself a litte more? While we all eat at the kitchen table, you eat on the TV tray in front of the tube. While we are all out raking leaves and picking apples you are channel surfing. Now all of a sudden poor old Grandpa feels left out? What about ME? Where are my hugs and affection? Now give me $20 so I can go down to the corner store for some candy and soda.
Hugs, Joey
(((((grandpa)))))<<there's your damn hug
Grandpa wants drugs not hugs.
And grandpa is probably a veteran, too.
Awwww...Joey, whether you hug him out of gilt or not you should hug him while you have the chance. I wish I could hug mine again.
Pity hugs for the elderly = pity sex for the younger men. In both cases, you take what you can get.
Joey,
Will you please go push Grandpa into the shark tank? For some reason, he's being a crotchety old coot, and he's dragging everyone else down with him. If you do it, we'll let you keep the refund of his admission fee.
Aw, what a sad note. Perhaps Grandpa has had a stroke and is in a wheelchair. That would surely put a lot of kids off. Like Britches, I wish I could hug my grandpa again.
And thank you to all the grandpas out there that are veterans.
Grandpa's not going to live forever you know.
Here Grampa, I will give you a hug. And you don't even have to beg like you did for Joey.
Oh.
This is sad for so many reasons.
How many times have I been told that, asked that or taken guilt like that?
What's sad is - Grandpa REALLY DID feel left out. Since Grandma died he hasn't been the same. We all thought for sure he'd fall apart and pass away from a broken heart...but he hasn't - his health is good and he's much slower.....and yes, sadly he does feel left out quite a bit.
Grandma kept the energy of the whole family going. She was the wind in our sails. He knows that. He feels badly too.
Thanks Joey for doing that. You let him know we haven't forgotten him or shoved him aside.
What a sad find for a Monday morning. Ugh.
I don't think it's a heap of guilt. Sometimes kids need to be reminded to pay attention to grandpas. Grandpa's lucky someone's got his back, there's millions of old people who got nobody.
This is sad. Wish I could hug mine again, too. I hope Grandpa got his hug!
A little guilt never killed anybody. Go hug someone.
as soon as i saw this i got up and hugged the nearest available person. unfortunately it was my beagle. oh well, at least my puppy doesn't feel left out :D
My grandfather was an evil man that my mother never would have insisted I hug. He tried to kill her when she was a girl. And later he tried to pay some of her friends to rape her and beat her up. I grew up thinking that all grandfathers were to be avoided.
cute cute cute.
hugs for all.
Aww i've never hugged my grandpa, or grandma, or even my dad. i wish my family were huggers, it's really sad. if i start hugging now it would be totally weird and awkward. when i make my own family i'm gonna make sure we're all huggers.
I can't imagine growing up in a family that has to think about or be told to give hugs. My family is just a big, wacky group of huggers. Ironically, aside from my immediate family, I'm not a huge hugger and when I do it's always one of those awkward half hugs.
Tori, in my family you get hugged if you're going down to the store for some beer, or if you're going to get the mail. Additional reasons are different days of the week, sunsets, etc.
Nothing beats a good hug, I am definately a hugger!
This really makes me miss my Grandpa, and brings some guilt to the surface too. I would love to have just one more hug from him.
arsenic, that's just really creepy. What a bummer.
This is wonderful. It reminds me of my grandmother, but not specifically... A few weeks ago I had dinner with her, and as we had nothing to talk about, she started to talk about the only thing anyone in the restaurant could think of on that moment: The family that was sitting on the table behind us. Boy, they were loud... In such a caring way. I just couldn't stop smiling while hearing them. But my grandmother nearly ruined it all when she said "I wish our family was more like that". She just survives.
I always hated being told to do things that should be done out of love.
But I always hated the fact that I couldn't express my feelings to others.
Grandpa needs to get over his self esteem issues.
I never knew either one of my grandfathers and I always felt like I missed out. That's what happens when you're the youngest in a large family...the grandpas die before you're born. Now THAT's sad.
I didn't have any cousins, either.
(((((((all the grandpas in the world)))))))
This note made me sad. A few years before my Grandpa died (unexpectedly), I realized how important he was to me. On his last visit, I reminded myself how little I got to see him, so I needed to enjoy it while I could. I'm so glad I got to give him a hug before he went.
i hope grandpa got his hug
I hug everyone else's grandpas because mine are far, far away.
p.s. Hey, thanks for the spoiler warning, men in black!
This is sad, and reminds me of my Grandma too. The annoying thing is with my my Grandma she will tell you to do stuff that you WERE doing or going to do, making you feel like an ass, like she has no faith in you. For ex. I call her regularly (re 4-5 times a week) and she will always say all pathetic and guilt like at the end of the call "please TRY and keep in touch" and it's like... I JUST called today, and the day before... AND the day before...!!!
I think it's 'please bug grandpa' ie. go and talk to him even if he doesn't seem to want to be talked to.
I never knew my grandpas (but I met a very old great-grandpa once). None of my family was into hugs or shows of affection. It's taking me a long time to learn how.
(((((Jonathan))))) you are no longer unhugged :)
Bless you Becky, thanks for that! You've made my day. xxx
)*j*( [ = happy elephant]
Anytime Jonathan. Hugs are easy to give, and almost always please :)
O BTW I love the elephant! I have never seen that before, and I am sitting in French lab and it made me giggle out loud. My friend thinks I'm an idiot lol
Becky, I passed your hug on to someone who wasn't expecting it -- she was a bit surprised but really appreciated it -- thanks. So, what goes around... etc. ...
Well, you wouldn't have seen it before 'cos I just made it up...
[)'j'(]
big-eared version
xx
Thanks again.
PS -- if you find Chrome Toaster's site you'll find mine. Drop by and say hello!! xx
Elephant
I had a friend whose grandfather sat in a chair all day and whenever one of the grandkids ran in he would say," Joe, fine boy." or "Lulu, fine girl." In an old man southern accent. Sad, but funny.
my granpap used to sing us a song from his chair that went
Me go to Pittsyburg
A city for to see
Me make a much a money in the laundery
Me can washy, me can ironey, make a shirty shine.
Me can live on muskrat and think its might fine.
Chow, wow, wow , wow
Ching, ching, ching
Me no like amellican man, he no likey me.
I sing a song to make him laugh, sing it by and by.
Chinee man, amellican man, laughing ky yi.
So don't complain about a hug- these old fucks need it.
But, in pap pap's defense:
He had a gun collection that spanned the civil war thru WW2. During the 1960's civil rights unrest, a neighbor said to him,"Bob, at least I know where to go if the negros rise up."
My Pap said, "Well, you better make sure you know whose side I'm on"
Go figure.
I don't think it's guilt. It's part of helping kids learn empathy.
Oh, the bestest thing to get from family, and or friends...a huge, tight, secure, bear hug!! Especially, from GRAMPS! Something I'll never forget, as long as I live! (He's gone now...:-()
However, my son, Uncles and cousins, give the best bear hugs, like no other feeling, than feeling wanted and loved!!!!
Hugs ARE better than kisses! Especially on Greeting cards!!
My grandpa was AMAZING! More important than hugs is to listen to what they have to say. Then try to remember it after they are gone.
Mine told lots of stories of his life growing up in a community of Swedes in the logging camps of Washington State. In the 1980s he saw a group school photo of himself in a history museum near Seattle, and helped the museum people name the others in the photo. Born in 1901, died at age 98. Here's something he taught me:
As a rule, man's a fool
When it's hot, he wants it cool
When it's cool he wants it hot
Always wanting what is not.
Clover: What a fantastic rule!!!! I'll cherish that one, for sure a keeper!
Thanks Grandpa! Longevity runs in your genes, too. My Gramps lived to be 95, and he and my Grams were married for 61 years!
He would always say this to us,
Marriage is like cable...with 1 channel!!!
Sure was for him!
Cheers!