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September 17, 2008 |
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I'm Sorry
FOUND by Danny Shultz
in Long Beach, California
I found this laying on the ground in my history class. I think it's kind of funny how two people broke up their relationship with a note. At least blue pen wasn't devastated, and black pen was understanding.
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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 yer classic LJBF situation.
The odd thing is how much alike the blue and the black handwriting are. Maybe the whole thing was written by one person?
If it doesn't have time for a 'relationship', how does it have time for 'friendship' (which is also a way of relating)?
adios
That's the most sensitive "Dear John" letter ever sent by a clown (creepy as they are).
Just friends, pffft...........
we are still good friends, rite?
Yeah, right.
No, they are definitely TWO different people. I hope they stay friends
I sense mutual relief at the ending of this non-starter relationship. Kind of like the scene in "You've Got Mail" where Meg Ryan and her live-in BF are eating dinner and he begins to sort-of confess there's someone else, but he's talking around it. Finally she has a moment of realisation and says, "You don't love me." He stares, hoping she's not going to dissolve in tears. Instead, she sighs with relief, grins, and blurts out, "Me either." And admits that she has "an idea of someone" who is her email crush.
Would that all young relationships could end this easily. No recriminations, no tears, just "OK... don't be sorry (cause I'm sure not!)."
"But...I have lots of friends! I don't WANT another friend!
I Want a LOVER!"
Been there...done that...
'sorry I just have time for you, because all my time is taken up with putting on my clown makeup. and giving small children nightmares'
*just DON'T have time...'
[I really need to start reading what I type before sending it dag-nabit]
Strangely Monkey.. I read the first one the way you meant it.
@ Baby basil
Do you really think it's mutual relief, or more like a face-saving resignation on the part of Mr. blue-ink?
What a lamewad! (Black pen.)
The fact that he (?) would break up with Blue Pen in a note, which probably means they were in the middle of class at the time, and would do so so light-heartedly ("he he") shows that he's never going to "have the time."
He says he's there for Blue Pen, and that he wants to be friends... Really? Even with no time? And aren't those two strong components for a relationship, in the first place? Which shows that he's a liar-- either he just wants to break up and is using all that other "no time" crap as an excuse, or else he really doesn't have the time and he's not going to be able to be there for Blue Pen or have the time to be "great friends." Either way, he's lying.
Grrrr... Relationships aren't just like sweaters you can exchange or return at a store in a moment's notice; it makes me mad when people treat them that way.
And ANOTHER thing...
If you guys think Blue Pen is relieved, don't be fooled. She's just playing it cool and is very deeply disappointed and hurt.
She "figured it was coming..." IT! The dreaded IT! And so she's been preparing herself-- locking up her feelings and feeling very distant toward Black Pen. All the elipises convey distance.
Since she saw it coming, she "hasn't been very nice," and if she truly didn't care, she wouldn't stick around or get mad; she'd have left a long time ago. But she DOES care, A LOT, so she stuck it out with this no-account jerk in the hopes that things would work out. And they didn't. And then that no-good Black Pen just kind of blows off the whole relationship so casually. (See above.)
Blue Pen is a future ice princess in the making, folks. Black Pen is why.
Are they both left-handed?
My gaydar has been in the shop for a while, but if I had it, it would be telling me that this note is between two men. I sense nothing chicky about it.
Reading these teenage relationship and break up stuff always forces me to revisit my adolescent angst...yuck and yuck again.
The stuff that soap operas are made of.
@ Girl in a cube...
I think they both know the "no time" bit is an excuse. This is an attempt at a gentle dumping. Should Black pen (because I think these seem pretty gender neutral) just say "I don't find you attractive anymore"? You seem to be arguing for a less gentle letdown.
I've been on either side of this conversation at one point or another, and I don't envy either of them.
(And I'm sorry your breakup is still so fresh)
however little time the kid with the black pen has, not taking any to at least tell the blue pen face to face what the deal is is quite poor...
get balls.
get a life.
My first thought was that it was a girl writing to a guy and they were friends trying out a bf/gf relationship that didn't work out. I've been in situations like this where both sides wanted to end it, but didn't want to hurt the other's feelings and ruin the friendship. Not that it won't be ruined anyway. I think they both realized very quickly that they were better as friends. That's why there were no hurt feelings.
But then looking at the handwriting again, I think it was two girls.
I think we know where Patrick stands on the HOTT date...
At the last of it, when blue pen says, "that sound fine, just give me a little time.." I laughed.
Black pen should then say, Don't you get it? I DON'T HAVE ANY FUCKING TIME FOR YOU!
(we're still good friends, rite? followed by __________________ blank line. Is that the flatline of the relationship?
Dear Blue Pen,
"We are still good friends, rite?"= "We can still have sex, rite?" Black Pen needs his ass kicked to the curb.
Your BFF,
terrieissovery
@ Feeling in coherent,
Thanks for the concern, but there's no fresh break-up for me of which to speak.
I'm just of the same mind as fooch in a Dunkin Donuts store, who said, "Reading these teenage relationship and break up stuff always forces me to revisit my adolescent angst...yuck and yuck again."
That comment hits the nail on the head, and should explain any unrepressed anger evident in my previous two posts.
Flargy, are you there?
Perhaps you should introduce Blue Pen to Red Pen....
Too funny, Nightingale! They could make a lovely purple pen together.....
Seriously, it's not you; it's just all the other stuff that's more important than you. See what I mean?
Now, maybe if each day had, oh say 29... or wait, make that 59 hours... then maybe I'd have time for you.
So I could squeeze you in somewhere between studying for history and plucking those little hairs that have started growing out of the knuckle of my big toe.
Come to think of it, I (Mary, no longer writing in voice of Black Pen) have time for Blue Pen.
In fact, I think I kind of love Blue Pen. I love that he (and yes I see him as a him) has these little efficient responses to the long-winded whining of Black Pen.
It reminds me of conversations between Mr. and Mrs. Bennet in Pride and Prejudice. You know, Mrs. Bennet goes on and on and on and Mr. Bennet zings out a one-liner.
True, "I can't make you have more time" isn't exactly a one-liner... but it does have some resonance after Blue Pen wastes all that time going on and on about how she doesn't have time.
I can't tell which one is the most feminine handwriting. I guess, going by experience I'll guess the black pen is the man b/c he's able to write out what he wants in a direct way. The blue pen was kind of inching around it, not saying what she had felt coming - that's why I'll guess she's the girl.
I have no time? C'mon, folks, that's the oldest lie in the book. I talk to or see my brother twice a year, and his excuse is that he's so busy, too busy to even pick up a phone and call for 5 minutes or answer an email, yet talks about his golfing trips at family get togethers. You have the time for the stuff you want to do, which, obviously to my brother, is not for his family. (sob)
Blue Pen and Black Pen are better off staying far away from each other.
you KNOW that Black Pen will have time for Red Pen if he comes around! and don't even get me started on that slut Yellow Pen.
Well, what is up with that Spanish greeting in the first line? And why nothing Spanish -- or even Spanglish -- after that?
Just don't have the time.
And I can't spare a square.
Wow.
I have a note almost like this when one of my old boyfriends broke up with me
=o
I'm so sad to say that this is the same situation I am in the midst of.
We both don't have time... he's just not willing to MAKE time, and I am.
A person who loves a person, has all the time in the world.....
This note to me feels from two middle school or high school kids......besides they were not in love......
As for the spanish opening, during spanish class perhaps? Or right after it? I also think Black Pen is the girl and Blue Pen is the boy. :)
Ooh, it's TOTALLY two girls! The handwriting is all too girly, and the little "i kinda like it...hehe" in response to Blue being mean lately is just what a butch chickie would say. Plus, it's always the butch girls who want to be friends so they can still get it on while simultaneously flirting with the rest of the species :) Ahh, this note takes me back to high school lol
I've heard the "it's ok, I saw this coming" line, thinking my jilted would-be lover was handling the LJBF talk well, still months later, he seizes up around me...poor blue-ink should take the opportunity to spill guts and make black ink feel like the non-committal jerk he/she is...
Aww reminds me of a note i was given when i was around 12..he was obv embarrassed to be with me as a week later he had 'time' to be with the prettiest girl in the school..
anyway, i think it's nice that they managed a civilised break up (on paper at least) although i expect there was a trip to the bathrooms to cry after that class...
"We can still be friends right?"
NO REPLY
obviously a no, jerk face
who breaks up with someone over a note in class??? good riddance!
If you were cuter and had more $$, then certainly I would find extra time for you.
As it is, since you are none of the above, hasta la vista.
(but, we can still be friends)
@a Girl in a Cube and Fooch: Right on.
Revisiting all that shit makes me want to puke.
I'd rather stick a fork in my neck
I agree
thats why the black pen should be sorry.and she will really do anything to make you feel like an asshole.
blue pen has his heart in the right place. black pen wants to stay friends because she looks up to him.
I bet these 2 people don't even say hi to each other anymore.
it looks like to boys handwritings to me the "he he" doesnt mean it's necessarily girls, im sure boys giggle together sometimes
This reminds me a lot of the conversation between my ex and I when he broke up with me..
However, no friendship followed and it turns out the reason for our breakup was another girl..
I hope things turn out better for these two.
So, maybe black pen really doesn't have time for blue pen anymore. Maybe he's got a plate full of other commitments and something's got to give. Maybe he really does care for her and he really is sorry that he can't give her more. She's understanding and knew this would happen, but sadness will really hit her about 2 weeks later when she realizes he really has no time for her. None. And knowing in her heart that they're still great friends is like a sugar coating on how much she misses him.
I agree, that's the oldest excuse for "I don't like you anymore" that exists. If you want to see someone, there is no time crunch in the world that would keep you away. When you are falling in love, you stay up all night talking and...other things. There is always time.
Another variation on this one is "I can't come up because I have an early meeting tomorrow." What man would pass up sex with someone he was really attracted to in favor of sleep? None!
Odd how we all have such visceral but divergent assessments of this note.
For myself, I am certain that Black Pen is a girl (perhaps because she started off with "I'm sorry"?) and Blue Pen is a guy. I think Blue Pen was never really that into Black Pen anyway, but hoped that he'd get some trim out of the situation; he has since decided that Black Pen is not worth the headache and is honestly relieved that she's "letting him down gently," but wants her to keep on feeling responsible for the "breakup" in the hopes of getting some sympathy action in the near future. He's trying to act just regretful enough that Black Pen will feel guilty, but not so regretful that she'll reconsider her decision.
Black Pen, meanwhile, has a fairly high opinion of herself, and is getting off just a little bit on being the jilter instead of the jiltee; she likes the feeling of importance it gives her to say she "doesn't have time for" Blue. However, she's not quite comfortable enough with it to make a clean break nor is she quite ready to cut Blue entirely loose - she might not have time (or interest) but she still wants his attention to be focused on her - hence all the "let's be friends" stuff.
Both of them have handwriting that tilts towards the left, so they're either both left handed, or neither of them is really that much "into" the other anyway (right tilting handwriting being more "friendly" while left tilting is more "antisocial"), if we put any stock in graphology.
And last but not least, there's no "blank line" at the end there - it's a line showing through the hole from the other side, where the paper is folded over underneath. Look at the fourth line of writing, and you'll see another one there as well.
anyone else get the feeling blue pen is black pen's alter ego?
wouldnt it be nice if all breakups were this easy?
I agree with Huh in that Black Pen is definitely a girl.. look, her letters that come below the line (j, g, y, etc.) have a much more curved line, a more feminine characteristic of handwriting, while Blue Pen brings the ends of his letters straight down.
And I also agree that Black Pen is feeling a little giddy with being the dumper in this situation. However, I think Blue Pen is much more emotionally involved in it then Black Pen. The way he phrases things, and his writing doesn't lean back as much. In fact in the line "Well tell me what you want", it's like he's leaning forward a bit in anticipation, and then goes back to trying to be more emotionally removed as he says "I can't make you have more time."
Anyway, it's an interesting note.
Oh, also, I'm guessing from the lo siento that this was written in spanish class. Which is a little cold.
Lo siento?
Famous last words, huevon de mierda! Oh, sorry, thought that note was for me (cough, cough).
i know who wrote this, the yo siento was a dead giveaway.
blue pen is most definitely a girl...