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Two Dollars or Free
FOUND by Bill Goodpasture
in Texas
Found in the playground at an elementary school.
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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...
On one hand this kid is a terrible salesman. On the other hand, more salesman should be like this. This car is $24,999 or if you don't have the money...
This kid needs to tweak his business model.
I think it's cute! I love how he's (?) expirimenting with his writing, like in the two sorry's.
Also, maybe he's not so dumb business-wise. If all they have is a quarter, he's still making money off a ring he probably found on the ground. Who knows.
This kid is a genius! If only I could figure out how to piss people off, then get them to forgive me by selling them stuff! Nice ploy!
First, there was Dirk Wednesday. Now we have Bill Goodpasture. Real or not, there's been some good finders recently.
i read it as the writer offering a gift as an apology, however not wanting to part with the ring for free. then he realizes that he should still be offering the ring as a gift, so he tries to get the apologetic tone back into the note, but fails in a cute manner.
@ Em, it reminds me of how i wrote in elementary school, mixing cursive and printing together until i found what i liked.
I like how the writer originally wrote "I[m sorry if I made you made."
"cite" me back?
Sounds like like flirting if you ask me...
Bill Goodpasture?
I love kid note finds, but I still like the what if I kill a policeman best.
It's "rite me back," lillabean. Tcha .. don't you know anything? ;-)
thanks rava- I've always wondered how to spell "Tcha" (though the way my kid says it, it should be "tchyeeeaaahhhhh")
Kids, I think y'all are are a bit young to be getting hitched. Wait 'till at least grade 4 before doin' that.. You'll know more.
wait, who's supposed to buy the ring anyway?
And if the wedding is called off, does (s)he give the ring back? What about the two dollars??
I WANT My TWO DOLLARS!!!
Oh joy oh bliss! The child wrote "I'll give you the ring free." So lovely to see the youth of today avoiding the hideous "For free". I'd give him $5 for the ring just for that!
Is this you Bill? Pastor Bill Goodpasture is difficuit to say. http://www.pblcoc.org/V2/index.php?option=com_conte
I hope this kid retains into adulthood the ability to recognise and apologise for mistakes s/he has made! maybe develop atonement strategies, though...
Sweeeeeet.
I defiantly think that this letter was spawned by a playground romance. It’s the first stages of adult desperateness blossoming in a 1st grader.
The letter’s context actually reminds me of the way my husband proposed to me... only my husband apologized more.
I think that was a proposal :-)
Ah kids and their "weddings" on the schoolyard. I guess he felt if he was giving his heart and ring away, his bride aught to at least give him two dollars
i got engaged in elementary school with a ring pop. no idea what happened to my fiance.
looks like the mona imposter is back.
This discussion reminds me of elementary school where 2 6th graders were "married" by the principal and it was done out on the playing fields with the whole school present. If I remember correctly Jerry Foster was also there in his helicopter. (AZ people will know him.)
The ceremony was something else.
Very sweeeeet, indeed! Reminds me of a fake goldtone, bendable and not an exact ring (circle) 'cause then you can size it to fit any finger, with a huge plastic square, green emerald. In one of those oval shaped containers from the 10 cent bubblegum machine!!!!
So cute!
Holly - we must be with the same guy, 'cause that's what *my* engagement ring looks like, too!
I predict that in 10 years gumball machines will take credit cards.
P.S. I hate how this kid makes the letter e. Hate it.
maybe it is the five straight days without sun speaking but I find this heart rending.
Come on folks. First we got Dirk Wednesday, Wolf Blitzer, Dick Trickle, Sgt Rock, and now Wm. Goodpasture. Next you're going to tell me there is a quarterback named Colt McCoy!
please don't respond to those you think are imposters. it makes it difficult for the moderators, when they remove the impostered post, it could result in others being removed too. and i, for one, like the moderators. dont make them work too hard.
I got married when i was 12. we wore our bathing suits, his brother officiated. it was beautiful. i wonder what happened to him?
Or a male sex symbol named Peter O'Toole.
Juice in your glass - I am so glad someone else on this planet knows that line!
I WANT MY TWO DOLLARS!!!
I got married at 4, he was older (5). we used to make out under the table at church. Of course, this is all hearsay. I don't remember any of it.
Joda- a proposal with more apologies sounds sweet and bumbly. He must be an Awkward Kid.:-)
Beth- it does seem a fair trade off for a 7 year old.
doncha miss when it was this direct, simple and sweet? "i'm sorry, here's a token of my affection, write to me, and you know, i want you to have this token of my affection so much that i'll just give it to you." straight up. kids are so smart.
This is a story from an art teacher at our local community college who has two young children. When they asked him what he did all day long, he explained he went to school to teach the students how draw and paint. "Why?" his child asked, "Did they forget how?"
And we do forget all the simple things that came so easily when we were young!
Christmas,
I think that, in North America at least, there are far more people who DO know that line than there are people who don't know it.
By the way, have you heard this one?:
"Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere's Johnny!!!"
It's kind of obscure, so don't sweat it if you're not familiar with it.
Future serial bomber handwriting.
So many questions. What's with the square "e" thing? Do I detect early signs of the felons claw in his handwriting? Why do I think it's a male? What kind of ring are talking about? Why does flargy have to be such a dick about telling Xmas that he thinks a good percentage of people know lines from John Cusack dramedies? ...And that about Naomi? (Is that obscure enough for you?)
Great find. Thank you Mr. Goodpasture.
I still have the "promise" ring my 4th grade boyfriend gave me. He told me he found it in the parking lot of the dollar store. I'm 25 now. Makes me smile everytime I come across it in my jewelry box.
This find made me tear up, it was so sweet. Then Nadine's story made them spill over! I originally thought this was between 2 girls - one of them an aspiring crafter who makes "jewelry" and had a tiff with her BFF Jill. But the playground romance makes sense too. Either way, it's so wonderful that they could apologize sincerely. I have trouble apologizing, 'cause it makes me feel like I'm wrong, when what it really means is "I miss you!" Agreed - adults forget many skills that children seem to be born with.
And Flargy - why take a cheerful John Cusack film and replace it with a grim Jack Nicholson one? Why? That's just sick, man. I bet you write square "e"s too, don't you?
Flargy, I know! It's Ed McMahon! Boy, that IS obscure, isn't it?
Uulargh, the reason I'm being such a dick is so I can piss off this "Christmas" person, then sell him/her a ring to make up for it. It's also just my nature to be a dick sometimes, but now I see that I can use that tendency to my financial advantage.
KC, have some coffee - you're not making any sense.
Flargy - actually there are few people in my circle that even remember the movie, forget about them remembering a line from said movie. However, it is one of my FAVORITE lines and I use it all the time. It was just nice to know someone out there has my same sense of humor!!!
As far as making me mad - I am too full of holiday cheer to let anything bother me.
This is toooo cute!!
(Boy, you know you're getting old when nobody gets Johnny Carson references. Sheesh.)
Quite honestly I think the kid was supposed to protect his friend (the friend: the scrawny rich kid at school in love with the adorable, dimpled, curly-haired princess on the playground, but since he's cruel of heart hasn't been able to find a way to win her over) from bullies, but didn't do a very good job. He says he has a ring for two dollars and "I'm sorry, if you don't have the money." So, since he thinks it's his fault his friend wouldn't have money, he'll give it for free to make up for it. I'm pretty sure there's something in there as to why he's supposed to protect him from the bullies, but that the kid that wrote this is the cute girl's real best friend. Oh golly gee we could make a musical out of this!
nadine, i love that story about the art teacher! priceless. i'm making it a new years resolution to listen to the little guys more often - they're so full of old wise man gems without even knowing it.
Christmas, I wasn't really trying to piss you off. That was just a response to someone else's knee-jerk reaction to my smartass tendencies. Although all the Christmas hoopla irritates the hell out of me, I'm full of good cheer myself. Congrats to us both, I guess.
To all those amateur handwriting analysts discussing the kid's "e," I would think it would be pretty obvious. His "e"s are clearly robots.
I can't stand the e's either.
and sarasara, didn't you know the man is supposed to be the one to buy the ring, and he is supposed to pay the rest of his life.
I, for one, enjoyed the movie reference. I thought about snorting snow just yesterday. It always brings a frigid smile to my face.
Nightingale, 'heeeeeeeeeeeeere's johnny' with regard to Johnny Carson did predate and overlap the Nicholson movie, so that's almost a cross-generational reference.
I don't remember the 'two dollars' reference. i must have missed that movie. And i like john cusack.
John Cusack. That's what's-her-name's brother, right?
Yep. And John and I both have sisters called what's-her-name.
I don't know "I want my two dollars" either, Mona. I guess we're not as cross-generational as we thought we were.
Flargy, better to have smart-ass tendencies than dumb-ass tendencies. Cheers!
The "I want my two dollars" reference is from the movie Better Off Dead (1985). It is really worth renting. It is a classic 1980's movie with lots of teen angst.
I was only 10 or 11 when that movie came out. I guess I didn't have enough angst to see it.
I wasn't even born when Better Off Dead came out, yet it's still one of my favorites. "French bread, french dressing, and Peru!"
Fake.
I'll add that to my list of 80s movies to rent... I wonder what sort of comments that list would get if found :)
Here is Bill Goodpasture from Texas:
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Another kickass 80's movie is Blowout. John Lithgow at his creepiest.
In 6th grade Donny H... took his mother's wedding ring to give to my friend Andrea who lived across the street from him. When she rejected his love he threw the ring into the field nearby. I'll have to Google his name, for some reason I suspect he's in prison now...
The note-writer forgot to do his square, robotic Es in the word "free". So much for coolness.
I haven't seen Better off Dead in a long time. Maybe time to dig it out and watch it again.
My former boss at the jewelry store called "promise rings" Motel keys.
i married my cousin when we were little. he gave me a ring made of a twisty tie (like off the loaf of bread). we didn't kiss, though, he just let me have the last can of coke since i was his wife.
i don't think i ever paid him for the ring, though...
i'm cross, just not generational.
My "ring" was one of those old school soda can tabs that had the big finger part with the tab wrapped around the top. I still have it. :o)
angel in paradise... i love that story. haha thanks for sharing. i bet donny h is in prison now!
I got my wedding ring out to hawk it so I couldn't get a new sofa. (I'm not into jewelry, conspicuous consumption) I put it on my pinky and lost it doing yard work. I have a metal detector, but haven't found it yet. In the mean time I sit on shitty couch.
To Brain: I was wondering where 'our' man goes on Friday nights?!?
HEHE!
"We lose money on every sale but we make it up in volume."
i love this! and i love better off dead! one of my favorites... "Riiiiickyyyyyyy!" haha<3
A 3rd or 4th grade boy in Texas would not give a girl a ring I think. It is two girls, BFFs that had a fallout.
And screw everyone who does not like her e's. They are fucking beautiful!