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Mabye
FOUND by Susan Aub
in Bedford, New York
I spent many hours over the course of two days at this year's Dump Days Tag Sale -- an annual fundraising event in our town -- hunting and pecking through the junk to find and buy all sorts of cool stuff that I don't need. It was a boom year. And then, at the very end of the second day, I found this on the ground -- my prize find of the weekend. I guess Dump weekend can be a stressful time for the little ones.
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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...
Dear husband and three disgruntled teenagers. From now on I will only live in my room. If you must enter, knock three times, then, mabye, I will open the door. I WILL be served food in my room. Your unhappy and
irritated mother
and wife
At next year's Dump Days, be on the lookout for a perfectly good interior door with pictures of the Jonas Brothers taped to one side.
I thought this note was written by the dog from the last Find -- until I got to the very end (where we see the word "daughter").
This daughter assumes food will be served to her in her lair. "Really?" the irritated mother and wife might say, "Come on out and join the family if you get hungry."
On the other hand, this girl could really benefit from having her world boughnber-ised.
Nice job staying in the lines. Your punctuation is great, though the spelling could some work. Keep working on your lower case Rs. And don't forget name and date in the top right corner! B+
I disagree - for the age level of the handwriting I think the spelling is really impressive! Especially "daughter" and "knock". Way to go, kid!
Dear daughter,
Sounds good to us.
-Mommy and Daddy
P.S. We hope you like ramen and spam.
Honey, if you decide to live in your room, just realise you are laying solid foundations for agoraphobia in future. I know this from experience. You have no idea yet just what "trapped, unhappy and lonely" means. But you will.
I know. And I hope you wake up from your drama-queen dream and get some sunshine.
OK. See you back down here in about 20 minutes.
Mom & Dad
yeah, I'm with Feeling on this one. this resolution only lasted an hour at most.
this isn't an emo, moody, brooding kid deciding to lock herself up in her room. this is a kid who still calls her parents "mommy and daddy".
most likely this is a reaction to something like being told she couldn't go out to see friends (the trapped & lonely part fitting that). so she decided to teach them a lesson for keeping her trapped, by trapping herself in her room, certain that they'd be begging her to come out in no time at all.
as soon as she realizes no pleas to rejoin the family are coming, she'll be forced to come out so they can SEE how trapping her at home makes her suffer so.
@ Jan: Very funny!
On a somewhat related note, all of you who have daughters, read carefully:
I have no problem with your little girl growing up as "Daddy's little princess" or "Mommy's little princess", but PLEASE, for the love of all that's holy, don't let her grow up thinking she's everyone's little princess.
notes from your kids are keepers. mommy + daddy + jeremy are weepers.
this has some of the best spelling on found, yet. its amazing this little girl was able to write this better then some of the notes from the high school kiddies.
@ Jan. You hit it on the head. Home run comment!
Okay honey. While you're in there could you CLEAN your room?!
(when I first read the note the first thing that popped into my head was tony orlando and dawn.. "knock 3 times.. on my door if you still want me.. ")
Ohhhh the drama!
This is why I refuse to have American children.
I was starting to feel empathy for this poor child, then I read Totally in appropriate's comment....snorted the coffee out of my nose.
Betcha the crises was over before dinner.
oh dear..have a few of these saved from when my daughters were this age (guessing 6th-7th grade).
We laugh about it now.
Hopefully, Mom, Dad, and Jeremy weren't jerks and got unhappy,lonely,trapped daughter out of her funk.
Dear daughter,
From now on we will only acknowledge we have a daughter on odd numbered days. On those days we will not leave any food by your door or even glance at said door as we hurry by. Quite honestly we have been disappointed by you since the day when you did not wave "bye-bye" to us, when you were 2 years old. As well the fact that you still wet the bed at four was a major horror to us and something we still won't admit to relatives. And your handwriting is atrocious! You are a inferior child in so many ways, we are glad you have decided to lock yourself in your room. It will make our lives easier and more pleasant. Good riddance, say we. Don't call us, we'll call you.
Your loving parents,
Mommy and Daddy
I wrote a note to my parents like this once. I think my parents laughed. Now that I'm the parent, I would give my daughter a box of cereal and remind her she doesn't have an attached bathroom and wish her good luck.
LOL @ Terrie! Ukranian princes and princesses for you is it?
mabye
love it.
mab ye will miss me. If ye don't, no great loss.
I'm with Terrie. I'm buying one of those Korean babies (Only $7,000 + Shipping/Handling!).
pobrecita
How sad...
That a child would feel this much unhappiness,and loneliness-this early on in her life. There's a whole lot of life left and it doesn't always get easier when you're already so down.
I hope her parents realise that she is probably depressed and needs help.
This isn't really all that funny. It's sad.
Wow that must be one ugly kid.
I agree with you should all get a life. I found this to be sad, and got a little sadder when i read the comments blowing off the note and ripping the daughter. It's probably disengaged behavior like that that caused the poor girl to grow up in an environment where she feels she can't talk to her family about what is going on, whatever that is.
Sad.
It's OK - little Janice Ian has gone on to do bigger and better things.
Ah, the drama of the elementary school days. I was once very angry at my mother for telling me to go clean my room - I was maybe 8 years old. So I went rummaging through the kitchen drawer for a knife as I pronounced that I was going to kill myself. My mother, eyeing the tiny steak knife I had selected said, "Here. That won't do the job. Let me help you find a bigger knife." I stomped off to my bedroom where I tantrum-ed some more before falling asleep. I'm 41 and we still laugh about it today.
@you should all - You should probably not be so quick to assume that this child is mistreated. Perhaps, it was written by a very spoiled little brat whose parents forgot to get the right kind of ice cream for dessert. Also, you should not be so quick to judge anyone in this forum, as we are all civil human beings who wouldn't dare say any of these rude things to a child's face. Just behind their little, bratty, conniving backs. ;)
The question is: is this a sad kid who wrote the note, or a bratty kid? If I were forced to guess I'd guess bratty. It's the bratty ones who say to their parents "I will be served food in my room".
HAHAHAHA! Um, no, dear daughter. I am not your personal slave. You are, of course, welcome to eat in your "own room" i.e. the room I pay the mortgage on each month, with the caveat that you provide your own food. This of course means that you must be able to afford your own food. In order to afford your own food you will most likely need to get a job. In order to get a job you will necessarily have to exit your room, and even this house. This seems to go against the whole point of locking yourself in "your" room to try to make a point. I'd suggest a more reasonable solution to your problem. I am willing to listen and talk to you when you have cooled your hot temper.
There is waaaay too much drama in this note to consider that the child is legitimately depressed in any serious way.
Ah yes, another little girl who has been exposed to waaaaay too many Disney movies. All the plot devices are in place:
*The Unfairly Tormented Princess
*Evil Adults (and Jeremy)
*Sad and Lonely But Staying Strong
and undoubtedly
*Waiting For Her Prince To Save Her.
yep. this is totally something my daughter would write if she felt she were treated unfairly. I'd say enough with the poor little victim movies & get her rear end outside and play.
Just Me is right. There is way too much artificial drama for this to be from a child who is truly mistreated or depressed.
Mabye, just mabye this ungrateful little girl will have to find her own food.
STFU, disrespectful brat.
Oh, come on! Didn't a lot of you try to (or wish you could) secede from your family at some point?
I'd suggest 'killing with kindness' ["here's some of your favorite home-baked cookies and mile; can I get you anything else? a magazine? got my cell phone number, so you can call the kitchen? sure you don't need anything? we want you to be comfortable? ...."] while also encouraging the rest of the family to engage in a wildly fun game of 'Twister'. Young people eventually learn that it usually isn't all that bad, and rejoin the family.
On the other hand, supposing the parents here are drug addled wastrels, this youngster is trying really hard to be both firm, polite, and self-preserving. In that case she deserves our respect and encouragement.
My humble opinion.
This has to be an age thing. I have a 9 yr old daughter. This year when we moved into a new place; she taped (the thing is never coming off the door) a HOT PINK posterboard to her door with explicit instructions on how to knock and gain access to her domain. All of the instructions are a maybe access for Mom and a definite no for her brother.
This note reminds me of how I should have set my house on fire when I was a child. Regrets...
My 11 yr old has depression, and does this - it does not mean she needs any extra help beyond what professionals are already doing for her, she just needs to get over herself. Right now she is sleeping in a tiny game closet to try to prove a point to me that her sister shouldn't be allowed to sleep on their shared bunk bed, because it's "too invasive" to her privacy, and I'm incredibly mean for allowing that to have ever happened.
I swear this is from a children's book I used to read all the time when I was younger. It's about this girl who hates her family and decides to live in her room for the rest of her life. I can't think of what it's called, but it's a great book.