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June 25, 2008 |
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Imposer
FOUND by Sarah Merrill
in Chicago, Illinois
Found on Halsted in Greek Town. Does Raid work on cops?
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I can't think of one actual scenario which has as its solution either of those three options: drink alcohol, use pest products, or sit outside. I can think of plenty with 2 of those as reasonable solutions, but all three?
One word...senility
This gives me a headache. Alcoholic paranoid schizophrenic, I fear.
Drinking a lot of alcohol makes most things go away.
Yeah, your wife, your children, your dog, your money, your sanity... the perfect pest control solution. Maybe this guy/gal isn't so insane after all.
So...who was the intended reader of this note? Did the writer leave it taped to her door to warn away the imposers and police? Was it part of a dream journal? The start of an unpublished Kerouac or Hemingway short story? Or was this originally stuck on a kitchen cabinet as a reminder to the writer of what she needed to accomplish today?
Ditto what wise Jonathan said.
Today's 'To Do' list:
1. Join the police force.
2. Become an imposer.
3. Wear pest product protection gear.
4. Go to Greek Town (and hope too much alcohol has not been consumed.)
5. Wreak havoc.
hmmm. Did the writer mean to say imposter? or did he/she really mean imposers? You know those people who just impose on you, all the time. I don't know. My first read through, i thought it was the imposers and police she wanted to keep away, now i see that its just the people that bother him/her.
Don't make me use the pest products.. just don't, ok?
I mean really, can you blame him/her? I would not want to do that either.
Or it could that this is one of those theater exercises where people get slips of paper setting up a situation and they have to improv their way out of it.
If you've ever been to the famous Greek Town Theater, you've seen the results of this hard work.
Is an aera anything like an aeon?
It appears that the I's are dotted with little crosses. Well, no: cross, up arrow, right arrow, safety pin, SW arrow, up arrow, closing bracket, the period is a right arrow, and the ending period a jellybean.
Self-medicating with a lot of alcohol. Not a good thing.
I think the fifth line says it all.
I drink a lot of alcohol or use pest products on the aera. I wonder if this person is violating federal regulations by using those pest products in a manner inconsistent with their labeling.
There's some kind of trendy spendy perfume that everyone was wearing a few years ago that smelled JUST like Raid. *shudder* Man that was nasty!!
Spirit, I don't know what Raid smells like, but I wonder if you're talking about the same vile stench that people were dousing themselves in around the same time, which I was assaulted with just about anytime I went out in public, and which to me smelled like how I imagine rancid butter smelling if it were infused with the oil of some gross flower.
mmmmmmm.....RAID!!
I prefer to use D-Con products to keep the imposers and police away from MY door.
Somewhere in this is the answer to it all, but I just can't see it. It must be me, not the note writer. They are God I think.
@cowering in the corner --
I thought you were, um, off your nut too, until I looked closely and I can see what you mean. Well spotted! (or crossed and arrowed and jellybeaned.)
On the other hand that rather reinforces my first thoughts. And I still have the headache.
okay - I think I know what this is about. AERA is the American Educational Research Association (aera.net). This person is clearly saying these people are imposers on his/her hospitality and the only way to get them to leave is to improperly use bugs spray, call the police, or drink themselves into a stupor.
I wonder if this person has some super insight to the state of the education system and refuses to divulge it, ergo AERA won't leave.
Still, I don't think RAID is the answer.
Did the writer mean impostor? Are there impostors roaming the the aera and near the door? I wonder where this person lives and I hope I am never in the aera.
I think by "imposer" the writer meant "enforcer." But if the writer does a lot of alcohol and/or pesticide abuse, it's amazing they have such good handwriting...maybe not so startling that they mix up their words, tho.
I absolutely cannot read that handwriting beyond the first two lines. That is the first time I've ever seen area misspelled like that, though. I did something new today!
i can't read this either! and i want to, i'm curious. so, if someone could translate for me, please do, that would be awesome.
@darcy
People in aera (sic) will not get away from my door with a imposer or police all day, all year unless I drink a lot of alcohol or use pest products on entire aera (sic) or sit outside. I do not want to do that.
I specialize in schizophrenic handwriting (rubs toe on ground sheepishly) it's a gift.
Yep, only the fifth line makes sense. The rest of it is gibberish. I hope this person is getting some mental health treatment.
See, I'm very glad y'all explained this one, 'cause I thought it said "...unless I drink a lot of alcohol or wel pee + products on entire aera..." Which I thought was some sort of veiled threat to scare people off by using the entire "aera" as a toilet.
Which I think might be more effective than a little bug spray.
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