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March 26, 2006 |
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Don't Ask, Don't Tell
FOUND by Abby Perry
in Monterey, California
This was in the bushes near the smoking area of my barracks, folded in half with the words facing outwards, as if it was one of those nametags you put on your desk. I'm terribly curious what situation called for a nametag saying "I'm wearing women's underwear."
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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...
Congratulations!
perhaps it was one of those nametags given to an individual unknowingly
It is worth considering the story behind this note, if you first decide the writer is not a man.
The writing seems somewhat feminine. Perhaps a group of women had to do some sort of confessions game with notes and one could think of nothing better.
Or maybe the feminine writing is easily explained by the confession of a male writer.
That is a woman's handwriting. My guess is that Jennifer was right- someone put that nametag up in front of some poor oblivious guy as a prank.
its the sergents for sure, for his little pet corpal name
Theory: a school-age girl wrote it, tore it from her notebook, and stuck it on some guy's back. Probably the same guy that likes to poke fun at her. Take that!
What would a schoolgirl be doing in the barracks?
The plot thickens...
Monterey California -- the only military barracks in Monterey are at the Defense Language Institute, where they train military linguists. This is the sort of joke we used to play on others when I was a student there in 1990. Sorta the military intelligence version of "kick me".
Lola, lo lo lo lo lo lola
ME TOO!!!
That guy should it and swallow it
or it could be quotes from movies... Shrek 2... said to Pinnochio "Say something crazy, like, 'I'm wearing women's underwear'". ...and he was...
I AM NOT AN ADVERB!!!
When I was there we did the same thing, but we did it in different languages!
hazing. even during liberal arts orientation, we still had to discuss pedophilic instincts and stick bras on all the gents. i shudder to think of what's done in the military.
all the DLI guys ive ever met in monterey would love to have school girls in their barraks... even if they are rather intelligent, they're still horndogs
Awesome. Me too. It's really cute, from Victoria's Secret and all. Fancy.
I love the idea that it is the military version of "kick me"... maybe I'll use this sometime...
I don't think that this has to be a girl's handwriting. It is very characteristic way of writing for someone who is trying to learn calligraphy. The unusual brush stroke shape and ink color help to confirm that. And actually, as calligraphy goes, I would say that looks like a rather masculine hand writing.
This looks to me precisely like the "secret information" that has to be elicited from someone by a trainee interrogator during training role plays
Good thinking, Jeremiah. Or maybe a party game 'twenty questions' type thing, like
http://www.foundmagazine.com/find/787 ?
Must remember to make sure I don't get interrogated by you, eh.
"That's what *she* said!" Oh, wait...
I am a sexuality educator and this is the sort of thing I might use in an activity for a class on gender bending. I'd give everyone in the class a tag they have to wear on their backs, and then all the classmates mill around interacting with each other as if their "label" is true. They, they have to guess what it says by the way the other people in the class treat them. Or, vice versa, the people in class have to guess what the person's label is by the way they interact in the forced milling. Other labels might be "I'm a man trapped in a woman's body," or "I've never questioned my gender identity."
one of my favourite finds to date!
Maybe this supposed to be sent to Postsecret, but then he thought somebody might see it before it left the base and figure out he was the one who wrote it, so he pitched it.
Well, you can tell the American Apparel model sure ain't. Yowza!
directed here by accident, feb 18, 2008.