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April 16, 2008 |
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My Wet Tye Dye Shirt
FOUND by Kat Hutton
in Kerrville, Texas
I found this during the Kerrville Folk Festival. I waited until the festival had ended to snatch it off the message board (I thought it was so great, I couldn't leave it behind to be thrown away with the other flyers). I hope this guy was reunited with his shirt. He sounds pretty upset.
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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...
Poor Guy!
What do you think "not a ground score means"??
Is he saying it isn't worth stealing??
Interesting that he wears tye dye and showers...
t-shirt mustve meant something..
"please mr theif... please bring back my tshirt... i'll give you a quarter and half a sunflower?"
hehe..... i am bored.
ps.. whats up with all these friggin astropsychonometaphysics security questions now?
What's a ground score?
You have to feel bad for the guy. It must have had sentimental value. Although I guess he shouldn't have left it laying around, who wants a wet tye dye shirt that isn't their own?
Who wants a tye dye shirt, period? Good riddance, I say.
What he meant by 'not a ground score' was that it wasn't a discarded 'prize' for someone else to find.
Ground scores are basically any discarded item you happen across (and find worth in) in your travels. Any of the stuff posted on this website, for instance, is a perfect example.
A Ground Score is anything cool Found on the ground.. (as in, "duuude! I found this shirt! What a score!!")
I hope he got his shirt back, too- I know that all MY tie-dyes have sentimental memories attached, and I'd be pissed if someone stole one-- but I'd be especially pissed of someone made off with my shirt while I was in the shower.
I once found a Metric t-shirt in the bushes on the last day of the Manitoba Folk Fest. I kept instead of bringing it to the lost&found because I reasoned to myself that the person might have already left the festival and that the t-shirt would end up at the goodwill instead of on the back of a happy metric fan like myself.
I feel so terrible about it whenever I wear it though.
Mac, Mac, Mac. Many tie dye sporting people shower regularly. What's with the anti-tiedye sentiment? I'd have thought people here would be a tiedye wearing bunch.
Jen, you stole it. OWN it. Do you feel better now, having confessed to your crime in a public place? Would you send it, UPS next day air, if someone found your post and said, HEY! That was MINE!
Very neat handwriting, effective underscore technique, and interesting use of ellipses...
...what's it written on, one wonders...
what's a ground score?
farmer, i love ellipses...
they're my favourite.
finders keepers.
Hysterical. It was written on a page from the computer that spits out after you print a webpage and has little to no relevant information on it. On the other side was a note hand-written by someone hoping to catch a ride from Kerrville to San Antonio the previous weekend.
I overuse ellipses... When used effectively they can help to create a tone and voice in a writing. They are most definitely my favorite form of punctuation. So much powerful than a mere period.
Thank you Christiatric for explaining Ground Score... I had no clue. But after you explained it, I felt rather foolish for not already knowing!
I have a feeling that if the shirt was stolen from the showers, it was probably not as innocent as picking it up off the ground and reasoning that the owner probably already left. I mean, the guy was in the shower! Surely whoever took it must have realized that somebody was in the shower, and Hey! This could be THEIR shirt!
ground scores are founds!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i love ground scores. they're my favourite... (next to ellipses.)
Yuck. Who would want a dirty wet shirt when you don't know where it's been or what it's been doing (or wiping)?
I'd love to see the other side of this FOUND!!
I, personally, would be rather ticked if ANY of my tie dye was stolen or misplaced. I have dyed quite a few shirts and socks and bandanas and even a number of pairs of panties. I LOVE tie dye... I think my love stems from my mother and her hippie ideals.
A tie dyed shirt is a thing of beauty and a joy forever...
I'm just wondering if I can join your little group here. I think all of you "regulars" are pretty funny and I think I'm pretty funny too. So...can I play too?
I love how stereotypical this find is. I mean, a tie dye shirt at a folk festival.
I stole a t-shirt once too. It was out of the clothing room at a runaway shelter where I worked. (I know that sounds really bad but my excuse it that there were TONS of clothes that would never get used). The t-shirt had a picture of dracula and said: "Dracula sucks." I couldn't resist it.
Oh Lord, tye dye socks and panties?!
Farmer:
My dad and granddad both have handwriting similar to that on the found. All of their letters are uppercase with the first letter of each word a little more accentuated. They both are engineers and Dad told me that was how they were taught to write in engineering school.
If there isn't one already, I think that the handwriting would make a good font. It should be called "Engineer".
His shirt was mistaken for something that belonged in the toilet.
As usual, TMI, up to your ears.
Hmm...tie-dyed shirts and Deadhead sounding lingo. Oh boy, April 20th must be right around the corner.
Dick, it's funny that you take offense to the non-showering tie-dye-wearing stereotype (which is firmly rooted in decades of reality), and then state your assumption that "people here would be a tiedye wearing bunch." I guess you missed Jason's memo about the mandatory tuxedos.
I've had a tye dye shirt get stolen- I had bought it at 15 and kept (and wore) it for almost 10 years! It went missing while on a cruise- I felt like I'd lost a friend! :(
I, personally, would stay far away from anything wet, brown and green laying anywhere around a bunch of hippies...
(Happy Ellipses Day...)
Oh those dratted thieving folkies! Look on the bright side though: At least they didn’t lift your trousers.
At my old Uni there was a rash of laundry thefts: Someone was apparently rifling through the unattended dryers and making off with select articles of clothing (usually jeans and panties) that didn’t belong to them… I was fortunate though. Apparently the person was not into the tatty hippie look :-P
Question: Why would you leave said beloved tye-dye shirt in the showers? Couldn't you find somewhere better to hang it up than in a public place where it was bound to get stolen?
I like the little clarification in the upper right corner. (8- pointed star) Cuz I saw millions of brown and green wet tye-dye shirts around, but there was only one with an 8 pointed star, so that must have been the stolen one. XD
From now on, I'm watching people to see if I can find who stole the green and brown, 8 pointed star tye-dye shirt.
The comments are cracking me up today. :o)
Great find and I hope the guy got his t-shirt back. I've got a slew tie-dyes, some of of which I did, and I love each and every piece. I shower on a regular basis and am a productive member of society. So, phbbbt! to Mac.
My favorite ground score was a comforter abandoned in the mud after an outside concert. It seemed the owner didn't want to be bothered with toting a somewhat muddy comforter back to the car. After a good washing, it was good as new, and is still in use to this day.
I'm a bit bothered by the fact that this isn't a real find.. it was "found" on a message board... meaning it was MEANT to be seen by the public... Can I flip through the classified ads section now and cut out a find?
Yuck, If said shirt wearer had to take a shower, just how stinky must that shirt be that he was wearing.. Not much of a find at all. I wonder if the thief used it for a super hip car-wash rag when he got it home. Now that would suck..
LOL Beth in a Tizzy, I wonder if you seen that stolen shirt, and pointed it out to the wearer, or walked by them and coughed "shirt thief" if they would start sweating, and run!! Funny thought!!
There's a store where I used to live called Hippie Skivvies. Tie dyed undies, boxers, briefs, whatever...
Just wanna say "welcome" to Toasty in DE, and... "don't I know you?"
Nothing says peace and love like tie dye.
With the green and brown color scheme giving a nod to the environment.
Come on, shirt loser, accept that the universe wanted another to have your shirt. In the yin and yang of life, one man's shirt loss is another man's epiphany.
Ground score? Is that when ground squirrels get lucky?
Hey Wedding Planner Girl--I like what you did with that little Keats bit. My own motto (well, one of many) is 'a dirty mind is a joy forever'.
Yes, Toasty in DE, we're hysterical. Well, at least some of us are. Chrome, for example, is never Dull.
Of course everyone here has experienced the pain of losing something to a dirty ground scorer... We have all felt his desparation when our favorite tye-dye shirt disappeared while we where taking showers in a communal shower area.
I have never seen a communal shower area that I thought would help make anything cleaner.
If its wet, brown, and green and a hippie had it before you, dry it out and smoke it, man...
I love the handwriting, too. I agree engineer, though my Dad writes like that and he is a pilot. I always liked it so much that imitated him and imitated him until I write just like that now.
I would bet that some nice uniformed gentleman came along with a long stick with a spike protruding from the end (like the guys you used to see in the margins in old Mad magazines), and used his stick to remove the offending object, then dropped that putrid, stinking rag in the nearest biohazardous waste depository.
Good tie-dye is getting harder and harder to come by in my area, so I can totally understand how upset the shirt-owner must be: If anyone snatched any of my precious hippie duds, I would be heartbroken. Especially now that my favorite local Head Shop closed to make way for yet another kitschy tourist trap… *sigh* But back on topic: if the showers the shirt was taken from are anything like the showers at the ‘fests I’ve been to, everything that goes in gets wet. It’s unavoidable. The wetness of the shirt, therefore, is in no way indicative of a lack of freshness: It could very well have been his clean change of clothes, still folded nicely and smelling faintly of eco-friendly detergent.
The Best ground score I ever made was the cutest little portable drug scale, no doubt pitched out the window when some local merchant got nervous when he passed the neighborhood constable. I found it when I was walking my dog. No product attached, unfortunately.
There is nothing worse than loosing something you love to a ground score. At the same time, some of my favorite things are product of a ground score.....
@ Ghost- TMI? Really? I think posting that I have and wear tie dyed hanes is not the most risque post that has crossed the found message boards. But, for your sake, I'll keep the panty posts to a minimum.
@ Kat- I like your motto better. I'm writing it on my panties as soon as I finish typing... Wait, was that an overshare? Last one, Girl Scout Honor.
The best part of the kerrville showers is that they are just a row of shower heads, you never know who you'll meet but you'll for sure be naked! You hang your clothes on hooks and I can't imagine this tie dye would have been taken on purpose. Makes me miss snuggling with a stranger for the weekend, eating brown rice and sleeping in a hammock
This reminds me of that find about the bike--'member? You 'member. The note where the person demands their stolen bike back. And wasn't there another one--about some jeans?
Today's topic must be "gross" between communal showers, dirty tye-dye shirts, and up close and personal teeth, I sure hope tomorrow's finds are easier to stomach.
@Winston in Durham, amen! I'm afriad to even check on comment on the toothy find. Gads, but that picture makes my skin crawl.
Me, too. I hiding out on this found page. Cannot look at the teeth!
I do hope he got his shirt back. If not, though, I am sure it is being put to use by another hippie kid.
@Toasty in DE, welcome to Found! Nobody else seems to have noticed your wave hello, but I did. We already have a Chrome Toaster...I guess that makes you indeed the toast-ee....
Gross, I hate tie-dye.
I think he mentioned "not a ground score" because he had just given instructions to "at least just leave it out around this area". Then he thought to himself, 'but don't leave it out so it looks like a ground score, put it somewhere safe' and added the last line.
Most hippies I've known... and I've known a LOT were a mostly clean bunch. There were a *few* at the Dead shows that were shower-averse, but for the most part, clean & sparkly tie-dyes abounded. As clean as you can be, anyway, traveling on the road for months at a time. Those communal showers do help! Plus you get to see boobies.
I had my favorite long-sleeved tie dye taken from a campsite... still brings a pang. Pang? Is that a word? Pang of desire, I've heard of. (google, google) It *is* a word! And I used it correctly. phew. I figured the person that took it needed it more than I did. {sigh}
http://www.kerrvillefolkfestival.com/posters/KFF%20
Here's the finders poster she designed for Kerville. I'm sure she knows Jason.
I love the Kerrville Folk Festival, I met my first husband there.
Tye-die is a way of life in my town.
Hello and welcome to Toasty!
Oh wait. Is it tie-dye? tye dye? tie die?
I'd start by looking for the person with the tie-dye stains on chest and back.
That's probably your culprit.
And even if you don't find the shirt thief, you might could have some fun in the mean time.
Peace! Love! Happiness!
What about the 8 pointed star...? I think 8 points are an octogram and means something about creation - maybe that's why it's so sentimental?
Tomorrow's Find...a slightly overexposed photograph of a very wasted Kat Hutton in Kerrville, accepting the prize for the Folk Festival's annual wet t-shirt contest. Guess what her shirt looks like?
@Terrieissovery...leather pants?
@Brain problem situation...LMFAO!
@Toasty in DE, welcome! Register your name and don't steal any of our t-shirts!
Aww, poor guy.
That must have been an important shirt!
D;
I read through all the comments to see if anyone noticed the drawings of the shower curtains on the sides of the note... This guy has way too much time on his hands... (I bet he tie died this shirt himself...
Umm, Ras, I do believe that's actually duct tape.
yep. duct tape.
i intend to use the term "ground score" semi-regularly from now on.