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November 10, 2008 |
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I Took My Meds!
FOUND by Amber Leichner
in Lincoln, Nebraska
I found this little list on the sidewalk while walking my dog. There are both Catholic and public elementary schools nearby, but perhaps this fell from a middle schooler's backpack as she departed the bus? I hope she remembered that fourth important item!
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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...
I love when I have something else to just don't remember. The fewer things to do remember, the easier the day tends to be.
I wonder what's omitted from #2. Jeff's little brother Frankie? Heroin? Illegal cockfighting events? Only the list writer, Amber Leichner, and the Found crew will ever know.
I believe what she forgot was her Alzheimers-Sta-Awa supplement.
Or she may have forgotten her lunch money back at her locker. But that's not very exciting.
Just why did they have to blank out "pizza" from #2?
Oh yeah. Don't forget to refigerate the leftovers.
Now I know what she forgot - the second o in the word "to".
to, too, and two. Learn 'em!
I don't think it's a kid, I think it was one of the teachers who wrote this. Teachers have far more need for meds.
Also, is it normal to have 7 periods over there? That's either very short lessons, or a very long day, I would most definitly need meds after that. Poor Jeff is going to get the bollocking of his life.
a jeff- "a Broken Penis caused by walking, slamming or, running into something or someone." (urban dictionary)
clearly whatever boy dropped this note knew what awaited him after 7th period gym class. he placed it in the number one spot because he is positive he will encounter a "jeff." thankfully though he likes the school nurse, who he'll happily limp over to see for the 2nd time that day. he had an excuse as to why the school nurse has been seeing him more and more frequently, but he forgot it.
ahh a blossoming teenage love, all in one little list.
This girl had her first romantic encounter. After telling her partner Jeff that she had forgotten to take her birth control, he freaked out. He won't even touch her again until she's proven she's not pregnant, and in his panic he decided seven menstrual cycles is a sufficient time to wait.
#2 was blocked out because it's a sexual position too hard-core for the average reader. The girl is looking forward to her next encounter and made sure she remembered to take The Pill. Unfortunately for Jeff, the girl has conveniently forgotten about her herpes.
Maddy...
Your post made me unconsciously cover my crotch. I'm cringing as I write this.
To Effie: I grew up over here and had 9 periods a day, 35 mins each. What did you have?
@Also in Oxfordshire:
I think you need to see a doctor.
How can you "break" a penis? It has no bones, not even cartilage!
US schooldays usually do have 7 periods. As I remember they are about 45 or 50 min, with a 10 min break between for "passing" (ie travel from one classroom to another) time. We change classrooms for each class, or did in my day, and the teacher stays put. We started at 8.30 AM and got out of school at 3.05, with an hour for lunch and usually an hour of study hall.
This looks like a list of positive things in her life. The person she likes (name whited out), the fact that some hot guy waits for her after 7th period (to walk her home?), she's taken her meds so she feels good and knows she'll have a good afternoon (diabetic maybe?), and then there's that 4th thing...she knows it's good too but she's on such a roll that she can't be bothered to remember.
I remember days like that. Matter of fact, I had one yesterday.
I don't think it's a name that's blanked out. Perhaps it's a verb. Hmmm. What does someone like to do that has to be blanked out?
Also - to 'just me...', What word in there needs to be 'too'?
Duh, now I see it. I read that sentence a different way and the 'to' made sense (sort of).
Effie, we have 8 periods at our school. Everyone has 5th or 6th period lunch, and that is 40 minutes. They are about 50 minutes long with only 5 minutes passing period. School goes from 8:00 to 3:05. We also have five different bell schedules in addition to the regular one: assembly schedule, hour-long lunch schedule, split assembly schedule, one-lunch schedule, and late start schedule.
Also in the US there are countless ways to divide up the daily learning in individual schools.. block, extended block, A-B block, semester block, and trimester, just to name a few. These are creative attempts to save money and FTE in budget-crunch times, as well as to make sure students have numerous attempts to pass the core classes that they have failed, so that they can graduate.
@basil: no, but it doesn't 'arf hurt. On the other hand, when it later turns black it makes a very interesting conversation piece.
My Dad had an ancient joke about a Duchess visiting a military hospital in the Great War. She asks one soldier where he has been injured, and when he blushingly whispers 'me penis, ma'am', she says: 'Oh dear, you poor man. I hope you didn't break the bone?'
To which the soldier replies:
'You said you was a Duchess? Well, I takes me 'at orff to the Duke!'
So 'I takes me hat off to the Duke' became a coded punch line in his family (signifying virile impressiveness) and thereafter in ours.
Hmm, Catholicism and censorship.
Congratulations, honey. You took your meds!
Last summer, I was director of a camp for kids, and I had to check in their meds. I was amazed...seriously. My hope was that they would grow out of whatever condition they had (can one grow out of being a psychopath?)
I think she needs her meds dose reduced. Short term memory loss....
Heck no she doesn't remember whatever 'cuz she's doped to the gills! This post depresses me when I think of our overmedicated youth. It makes me bleak when I think of these little tweakers being the hope of tomorrow. Gawd almighty what a curmudgeon I have become. I hate this post.
@ geek, very nice interpretation!
i think this is a crib sheet for an identical twin who is preparing to pull the ol' switcheroo on an unsuspecting jeff. i hope the fouth thing isn't something important that will give it away, such as, jeff and i only speak swahili while we .
@Jonathan, sounds like the voice of experience...LOL
@Wishing, I agree. Look around and you feel like you've dropped into Ira Levine's "This Perfect Day". Or Clockwork Orange, one. Or indeed both. Why teach your kids discipline when you can medicate them?
Although really it's not the parents fault. I saw it happen about 10 years ago...suddenly certain diagnoses became popular with pediatricians and behaviour altering drugs became the quick-fix. This is NOT to say that there aren't conditions that need medication, it's just that it became so widespread, so quickly. And then the suicidal depressions started--for kids on *anti* depressants. But overuse of an unneeded antidepressant can cause--suicidal depression.
However, as usual, it's all about money for big business. Poor kids.
I think I had six in the school I attended, but the one I'm training in now only has five: one hour each with an hour for lunch, 20 mins break in the morning and five minutes for movement between classes. Also in Oxfordshire, did you manage to ever do anything productive in a 35 minute class? You wouldd've barely settled before it's time to pack up.
Shouldn't number 3 be first on the list?
After 7th period he meets Jeff. Jeff is a nice guy who turns him 180 degrees, and points him in direction home...
The missing items are - "put on football helmet" and "don't stand next to the microwave at lunch" - it messes with the plate in my head.
I like Fish!
In high school, I had 9 periods of 41 minute classes with 4 minutes to get from class to class. Thank God those days are over.
Maybe the writer doesn't remember BECAUSE of the meds... maybe s/he has a one of those doctors who think stuff like Adderall is the solution for every kid.
All this talk about periods ... weren't any of you taught that ladies don't talk about 'that time of month' so openly???
clover, ftw.
Mabye #2 isn't blocked out at all. Mabye she really likes white out.
I like______...
I like______...
I like mine with lettuce and tomato,
Heinz Fifty-seven and French fried potatoes.
Big kosher pickle and a cold draft beer.
Well, good God Almighty, which way do I steer
For my cheeseburger in paradise.
Ahhh... That's better.
hey, where exactly in Lincoln did you find this?
i live in Lincoln too, and it looks EXACTLY like one of my good friends hand writing.
i noticed that even before i looked to see where you found it. ;]
that's pretty crazy.
let me know!
@ Effie: How did I cope? "MPSIF" (= minor public school, I'm afraid). I've done some work in special schools since, so I know all about unproductive periods too!
doesn't really look like like a teachers handwriting...no offense to anyone, but it's legible...=] lol, maybe this person should lay off the meds...memory loss=bad. I'm guessing it's a good thing she(or he) wrote it down...or else poor Jeff might have been waiting awhile...