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March 30, 2008 |
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Reid Kids Smell Like Cheese
FOUND by Alexa
in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
I found this after I overheard my little sisters talking about the upcoming school year. Apparently my one younger sister (the older of the two) had some crucial advice for her younger sibling.
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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...
THIS is the recipe for a good school year? C'est interesant. The list is so random and unorganized. I would expect that lunch money and buy lunch would be near each other. Nevertheless, I like it! And interestingly enough, I know a few Reid kids who do have a slight cheddar smell about them...
15. Question authority.
Older sisters ... ugh.
This looks like a mix of some things that she actually thought were good advice (e.g. don't ask questions, avoid Reid kids) and some things that she just felt like she "should" say, but which were really added more for the sake of having more list items (e.g. be a good student, be yourself).
What if your self talks? How can you reconcile nos. 8 & 9?
Why do you need the case if you are going to wear the glasses all the time?
I always kind of thought being a good student would entil asking lots of questions. huh, guess I was wrong
And this kid obviously has some plan for taking her little sister's money, because she tells her not to forget her lunch money but only to buy lunch sometimes.
I like the wear glasses all the time, but don't forget to bring case. I guess that's in case you don't follow that advise. The non-interaction with smelly Reid kids deserve an honorable mention too. Overall, very sweet. I remember my oldest giving advise to her younger brother, but it was more like try not to get Ms. Prichett for math and steer clear of Katy Krueger.
I think that little sister needs to look at the other find of the day.
oh yeah, just remember #9. Be yourself.lol
If the "receiving" sister had only followed #9 and then made her own list, I wonder what it would have looked like?
Here's mine:
1. Ignore what everyone says/thinks about you
2. Dress however you are comfortable
3. Take at least a few notes in between doodling & jotting down song lyrics
4. Shoot for no zeros
5. It's OK to be funny, but not at others' expense.
kc, that's wonderful advise.
@Lars: this one's too hard.
Control you little sister or someone else will?
Poor Reid kids. I wonder if they smell like.. cheddar, Swiss or Limburger.
What if the little sister, during "being herself," wanted a soft pretzel?
I love how #8 is strategically placed directly above #9. In essence, the message comes across as, "Be yourself, just make sure you don't let anyone know about it!"
What a terrific vote of confidence from an older sister.
"How to Succeed in Middle School Without Even Trying"
Looks like a pretty good list of ideas on how to succeed in Middle School. When I read it,(unlike everyone else apparently) I thought it was a list a kid made to remind himself of what to do.
The only one I disagree with is #2. The more questions you ask the better, just don't ask so many you annoy the Teacher.Then again maybe the teachers at this school are particularly Anti-asking questions. IMO not a sign of a good teacher or a good school environment. :(
I'm sad that she isn't supposed to ask a lot of questions or talk!
Just kidding.
Wow - It should just say be yourself. There's way too much not talking going on on that list. I hate when kids are made to feel surpressed.Hopefully the list receiver is someone who has already learned what is appropriate and not...I think the items on the list are things the list writer drew from her own experiences.
I gguess it is meant to wear the glasses all the time while she is in the classroom and put them in the case when she takes them off.
I also think that every once in a blue moon, a soft pretzel wouldn't hurt.
My guess is, there's reason the writer of this list says " No Soft pretzels". For instance the SP may be inedible, or maybe only "nerds" eat Soft Pretzels at this school, and the writer is warning the reader away from making either a gastronomic or social faux pas.
stresssssssssful!
and, the two "rules" i'd want to break first: #4 and #5. because i loves me some cheesy soft pretzals.
Don't ask questions
Don't talk in the library
Don't talk!!
Sounds like "a recipe to not be noticed." Not much of a chance of learning if you're not to ask questions or talk.
"We're talking living, breathing, wallpaper!"
Geez! Be yourself. Don't talk! Don't eat a pretzel! Have a great year.
Can someone please tell me who or what Reid kids are?? why should you avoid them, and why do they smell of cheese??
Would it be so mortifying if you walked into the wrong class? Doesn't everybody do that every once in a while? Beats walking into the wrong bathroom.
What's wrong with questions? Asking questions is the best way to find out things you don't know.
And I think it's very uncool to single out certain people to avoid and claim that it's because they are scented of tasty, tasty food products.
my grandpa always told me to try hard and ask questions. when he'd visit while i had school, he'd always tell me to ask questions before school, and then after school he'd ask if i asked questions. i want to know who these reid kids are! and why did they smell like cheese? was this just a large family who was notorious for bad hygene?!
The problem with advise like this is that it sticks with kids well into adulthood. I work with people fresh out of college that think they know it all, yet never ask questions and don't take responsibility when something they did goes wrong. They just expect you to hand them the answers on a silver platter. This is a fundamental societal problem and kids, no matter what age, need to be taught about integrity.
So my advise is eat a soft pretzel if you feel like it! Talk to many people so you can discern who are really your friends and who are just out to change you. Ask questions and make sure you know your material. Don't single out people because of the way someone else's opinion. If that makes you uncool, so what!
These poor Reid kids might be wonderful but how would anyone know that if they weren't given a chance. Maybe they just need a friend to be honest with them and help them out with hygiene. Maybe their Dad's gone and Mom has to work two jobs to make ends meet and unfortunately can't be there to make sure they wash up correctly. Sad, but it happens. That doesn't make them any less of a human being. On the flip side, maybe the parents are oblivious, in which case they really need your help.
"And the King answering shall say to them, Verily, I say to you, Inasmuch as ye have done it to one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it to me." Matthew 25:40
(Sorry, I can't stand it.)
Advice is a noun.
Advise is a verb.
Carry on.
@ night: i agree. i made a list and then thought, "hey, this isn't witty in the least."
i am a fan of soft pretzels, however.
@Lars: you on MySpace?
this a recipe for a sad conformist.
It's especially ironic that "Be Yourself" follows "DON'T TALK!"
So I'm gone for 4 days and miss 8 finds?! That sucks.
Also, anyone else having trouble signing in? No error message, it just isn't working.
I didn't know people could smell like cheese.
This how the social code gets passed down, one preteen girl at a time. Don't talk. Don't ask questions. Don't eat soft pretzels. That pretty much sums it up for the 8th grade.
I wouldn't define a piece of paper found in your own house as a "find."
Cute little list, though. Reminds me of something I'd have done for my little brother. Gotta look out for those that follow behind you. No point in being the eldest if you can't share some of your wisdom.
ummmm, Is it just me, or were we talking about controlling ourselves this morning? I am really, truly confused right now. After I post this I am going to have to go backwards in the found site to make sure I am not going crazy.
@Christina- I am SHOCKED that you are the first to point this out... when I saw the description I thought ALL the comments would be about that detail.
@excuse the interruption- Thank You!
as for the list, well, it is sad. I hope my children never think these bits of "wisdom" are golden nuggets- Don't Talk? Please.
Be Yourself
Have Fun
Ask so many questions that your teachers start to give you permanent passes to the library to appease your appetite for knowledge.
ok- nevermind... just found the announcement about the two finds a day. woo hoo! Now I get a find with morning coffee AND while I'm hiding in the kitchen (cause, you know, it takes a lot of work to cook dinner and I have to stay in the kitchen in case it burns or boils over or something. it's my ME time) :) THANKS Jason et all!
Parents who let their kids go around smelling like cheese all the time should be reported.
@ night. no, i'm not. i have a job because of which i cannot expose myself on any social networks. found is pushing the limit, even. sounds intriguing, right? it's not at all.
Ok, I understand. Too bad.
Reid kids are from a certain elementary school (Reid Elementary, duh...!) and they get mixed in with the other schools in the district in 5th grade. Idk what my sister was talking about when she said they smell like cheese, they have one of the newest schools in the district.
Lars is.. a famous person. An employee of a famous person. A politician. A narc. President of a University. I'll never know.
To @excuse the interruption and Trisha, I'm glad to see the grammar police are still out there doing such a wonderful job.
So sorry to have misspelled. I will try to be perfect next time just for you!
re: #9
alas, quite often one finds it hard to be oneself, simply because one does not know who oneself is... a problem that comes more sharply into focus the more one is told to be oneself, double alas...
lars, how intriguing. i am now imagining that you are jennifer garner's character in alias.
I've heard of a chemical disorder in the body that makes people smell of fish--maybe there's one that makes you smell like cheese. But it sounds like whoever does the laundry just leaves wet clothes in the washer for too long. Even after they dry they can still smell "cheesy."
One of my college roommates always smelled slightly musty, like a closed room. At first I thought it was the room itself, then I realised it was just her. Because no matter where she was, if you sat next to her you got the overwhelming urge to open a window. Not a stink, just an airless, musty smell.
*ahem* um.. Lars, no one's asking you to... expose yourself... eew.
2. Don't ask a lot of questions.
Thats a good one, mainly since we aren't allowed to talk!
Lars! Elaborate please!! You have a job where you can't be in public? Even when you can use pseudonyms??
Cool in my book.
I bet reid kids are elementary students from Reid Elementary in Middletown, PA! I live there and we have 3 elementary schools. Kunkel, Reid and Fink. The first two are grades K-4 and Fink is just fifth. I bet the list os for a kid going from Kunkel to Fink for fifth grade.
TOO HILARIOUS!
To the best of my knowledge the Reid students do not smell like cheese. lol
This reminds me of recurrent school stress nightmares, starting in middle school.. forgetting my locker combination and/or simply forgetting to go to math class, then suddenly realizing I had somehow missed a whole week of math and was hopelessly behind - panic!
I think if that little sis tries to follow this advice she could become neurotic. I'm guessing that the list-writing sister probably has some pretty extreme school stress nightmares. Neat handwriting though.
What fairly recent Find was it where the writer of the Found note made happy faces out of the exclamation points?
It's Happy Punctuation Time!
I've got to say, that's the finest penmanship I've ever seen on a "Found" note. Such mastery of the written word, I was concerned that e-mailing and texting would eradicate this fine art.
"I LOVE SEX"
http://foundmagazine.com/find/579
It's not a recent Find, though. It's from Aug 24, 2005. So there may have been a different one, more recently.
"They smell like cheese"
HAHAH!
Oh my gosh, that's funny.
it just sounds like something a really mean teenager would say.
But it's written by, what looks like a young child.
B)