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November 03, 2008 |
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Heart Means I Extremely Want
FOUND by Sara Kaye
in Howell, Michigan
This is a list found in a Meijers (to non-michiganians it's a pre-walmart 24 hr fix-your-car-and-a-dinner retail powerhouse) parking lot on Black Friday.
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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...
I will not pass judgment on Em because of this list. I was like that when I was her age (guesses as to how old Em is?), although most of the items on my lists didn't require electricity, even though it had been recently invented.
I would like to know why Em wants Mario Party for DS AND Mario Party 8 for Wii. What can you do on one and not the other?
If Em was my daughter, I'd tell her thanks for the list, but get used to disappointment :-)
I love kids, especially when they're as modest as little Em here :)
I dig the "If you think I would like anything else... get it!" remark. This belongs on every wish list. Come to think of it, I will put this on MY wish list this season.
Em, do not be surprised if what you actually get is the Oxford "Improve your Grammar" book, and possibly a dictionary.
Do 'we' think the ones that are marked through have been purchased already? or did Em change her (his?) mind?
How about instead of the Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader game you just do your homework?
When I hit the magnify button to take a closer look at Em's list, It displayed a birthday greeting from President Bush and Laura! If that item was a find, the person who got it put about as much value in it as I would!
what, no pony?
a list like that just isn't complete without a pony.
(p.s, I also get the presidential birthday greeting card find from a few months ago, when I click the magnify link)
my son used to make lists like this- now his list contains mostly two words: money, please.
takes the romance out of standing in line at gamestop wainting for the latest edition of halo.....
what do *I* really want for christmas?
a new president (one choice would be good for the country, the other choice would provide endless SNL skits...)
Sheesh!
This could've been my list when I was 11-12? Now, all I want is Peace and Tranquility!
Hope Santa is good to you, Em!
I know someone who's getting 2 pairs of wool socks, a set of no. 2 pencils with her name on them, and one chocolate bar for Christmas!
I've got a child we call Em, and this sort of looks like her writing. Including the hearts. And the helpful prices. And, yes, the instructional notes in the margins. But I don't think she would have been quite so electronic on her list. Where are the clothes, for example? No 'Old Navy'? No "Ambercromby and Finch"? Those were the days! I miss them. And her.
Em, I really hope you get at least one thing that you want for Christmas. I got so tired of getting approximately-just-exactly-what-I DIDN'T ask for. Like the time I wanted an electric train...a small one, an engine and one or two cars would have done, we're not talking a huge Lionel layout here. What I got was a tiny cheap plastic thing with a magnet set in the front of the engine and a little metal disk on a stick. No track, and the wheels didn't even turn. You held the stick out and it jerked the engine forward so it fell over. I felt insulted, like my mother decided this would be a cute way to make fun of me.
She was quite capable of it, yes.
BTW, what is "Imagine Passion"? I hope it's a game that helps stimulate artistic creativity, and not (as it seems) an electronic erotic game...Virtual Reality with a hey-nonny-no!
Cost of all items not checked off: $583. That's just $17 less than my entire shopping budget for Christmas '08. (Maybe economic hard times haven't hit Howell, Michigan yet.)
It's interesting that she wants "Are You Smarter Than a 6th Grader" rather than a fifth grader. Weighing the (mostly) neat handwriting against some of the gifts she wants (Webkinz?) I would guess she is probably around the sixth-grade age.
This list made my head hurt. I remember asking my 4 kids what they wanted and getting lists like this. One Christmas I stood in line to buy those little virtual pet-thingys (Tamagotchi?). I think that was the first and only time I bought some electronic toy for them.
As Librarian said, "Those were the days, and I miss them." Them being those days and those kids.
I am not an electronic toy person, but after watching Baby Mama, I am really interested in that (whatever it was) game that Tina and Amy were singing at. I could have fun with that one.
Fun with Found and the magnify button! Just so you don't forget .. VOTE! VOTE! VOTE!
As for Em's Christmas list. This is what keeps America running, I guess. Consumerism. China too. Remember what Bush said. If you don't go shopping, the terrorists win.
Geek.. the (Nintendo) DS is a little handheld game device that you can take with you anywhere, while the Wii has to stay home. The games aren't interchangable from system to system, but Em wants to be able to play it on roadtrips as well as at home.
Em is NOT smater than a 6th grader. Cross that one off the list, i'll just give you that information.
I heart Busch.
heart means i really extremely want it, but i still really want everything else.
for some reason this makes me really extremely smile. but everything else makes me really smile too.
i <3 Joh(n)
@ Gettin' nuttin: thanks for the description- My son has an old Gameboy that he used to play non-stop and I didn't know the DS was portable like that. I guess it makes sense that you shouldn't be without Mario Party for too long.
When will the movie come out showing my basement-dwelling brethren living their entire lives in a virtual world? Kind of like The Matrix but without Keanu's awesome acting.
**And don't FORGET...the Wii MEMORY card!**
@mona: ;)
abercrombie and fitch. no birds involved.
If the open hearts mean she really wants that, what do the filled-in hearts mean? It's missing from her key.
Both my boys love electronic games of all kinds - I wish I could indulge them more! We have great fun together.
@ lucy in the sky ... I know, I know, but that's how I'd pronounce it to get Em's goat since she REALLY didn't like it when her classmates would pronounce it incorrectly and cluelessly
There is too much going on in this note!
If I was the parent, I wouldn't know where to start reading!
I put a stop to these kinds of Christmas lists from my teenage boys by making them pick out one or two "big ticket" items and by requesting that less expensive items be included as well. It really makes them think about what they really want and not what the TV has been telling them they want.
They are in college now and they still just get one big thing. The younger boy got new tires for his car already (the car he bought himself). Older boy wanted a PS3 and some money to help finance his volunteer project to Kenya. We can still get together on Christmas and remember exactly why we're celebrating without having blown the budget.
Em's gettin' nuttin' for Christmas
Greedy investment bankers were bad
Em's gettin' nuttin' for Christmas
We've lost all the savings we had
@Night in gale: That's my favorite Christmas Carol ever. Brings back memories of gathering around the piano with Grandmaw and the whole famn damily to sing. Then Grandmaw would have too much of The Nog and fall ass over teakettle off the piano bench. We'd take turns each year carrying her to bed and making sure her Good wig got hung properly on her bedpost. *wipes away sentimental tear*
No spiked egg nog here, but my spouse just asked last night whether it wasn't about getting to be hot buttered rum season again.
Is there a difference between the hollow hearts and the solid hearts? Some items have both. Some have just the solid heart. I think #3 is the only one with just the hollow heart.
And do you suppose Em's parent "accidentally" loses her Christmas list every year? ("Aw shucks, honey, I was going to get the rest of the swag on your list, but I lost it somewhere after I got only these couple things.")
This reminds me of one of my favorite expressions, "Ask for the moon, and hope that maybe you'll get a star."
"When Black Friday comes
I'm gonna stake my claim
I'll guess I'll change my name"
See you at Em's house over Christmas vacation.
Okei,
Im not sure if I was the only one to read the entire list but here are some things that i found.
1. she's asking for a wii (with all her heart)
2. she's asking for several wii games
what if the owner of the list gave her the games and no wii to play?
Didnt she think of that possiblity??
Another thing: this wish list could be mine but from last christmas 'cause I asked for almost the exact things (I made sure I got the wii before the games)....and the DS is just wonderful to waste time on a long trip.
oh, a last one: I clicked on magnify and I get the happy birthday card from the white house that was posted several several months ago... is it just me?
@princess: you're not following along with the rest of the class.
Joh(n) .-
I (L) Obama!
I wonder if this note was ment for Mum & Dad or for Santa?
Either way she's brave putting all he eggs in one basket. Variety of requests is the key, Em. That way the list reciever is bound to like something on the list too! - Coz that's how gift giving works, right?
Good Luck, Em's mom. It is nearly impossible to get a Wii unless you just happen to be in the store when they are offloaded from the delivery truck. At least in my area. :(
Bah Humbug!! No Xmas yet please! Halloween was only a few days ago!!
You cant always get what you want...
But if you try sometimes...
you just might find -
You get what you need...
(my favorite Christmas Carol ever...)
Note to Em's mom and dad: Buy it now while you can still afford it.
"I'm Gettin' Nothin' for Christmas" is not a Christmas carol.
"So tell me what you want, what you really really want" (first thing that came to my mind...)
If I had one wish that I could wish this holiday season, it would be that all the children to join hands and sing together in the spirit of harmony and peace. If I had two wishes I could make this holiday season, the first would be for all the children of the world to join hands and sing in the spirit of harmony and peace. And the second would be for 30 million dollars a month to be given to me, tax-free in a Swiss bank account. You know, if I had three wishes I could make this holiday season, the first, of course, would be for all the children of the world to get together and sing, the second would be for the 30 million dollars every month to me, and the third would be for encompassing power over every living being in the entire universe. And if I had four wishes that I could make this holiday season, the first would be the crap about the kids definitely, the second would be for the 30 million, the third would be for all the power, and the fourth would be to set aside one month each year to have an extended 31-day orgasm, to be brought out slowly by Rosanna Arquette and that model Paulina-somebody, I can't think of her name. Of course my lovely wife can come too and she's behind me one hundred percent here, I guarantee it. Wait a minute, maybe the sex thing should be the first wish, so if I made that the first wish, because it could all go boom tomorrow, then what do you got, y'know? No, no, the kids, the kids singing would be great, that would be nice. But wait a minute, who am I kidding? They're not going to be able to get all those kids together. I mean, the logistics of the thing is impossible, more trouble than it's worth! So -- we reorganize! Here we go. First, the sex thing. We go with that. Second, the money. No, we got with the power second, then the money. And then the kids. Oh wait, oh jeez, I forgot about revenge against my enemies! Okay, I need revenge against all my enemies, they should die like pigs in hell! That would be my fourth wish. And, of course, my fifth wish would be for all the children of the world to join hands and sing together in the spirit of harmony and peace. Thank you everybody and Merry Christmas.
Funny. I remember that routine.
I'm not much older than the kid that's list this is, and I don't know what half of these things are......and even if I asked for any of these things, I probably wouldn't get anything electronic.
They have Meijers outside Michigan. We've got them over here in Ohio and Kentucky.
@kat: ...than the kid WHOSE list this is. It's a defining relative clause.
So there. Nyah nyah.
BRAT BRAT BRAT BRAT BRAT!!!!!!!!
Sorry but this find irritated me. A lot.
When I magnify that it comes up as a Birthday card from the Bushes.
kwyncee in quoting steve martin
nobody has time to read your novel.
@ pepper
....except me. Dig the Steve Martin.
[and about the find: even when I was that age, I didn't write lists like that. I'm easily embarassed, & would have been afraid to look so greedy, even if I actually was.]
Hey Orinoco Womble, are you still hiding in your burrow? can I come? crazy week scares me, too.
And me. I enjoyed the novel very much. And technically Pepper, it's not kwyncee's novel, it's Steve Martin's.
@Musician in the northwest: Thanks for ruining Christmas for me. Thanks a lot.
Scrooge.
@Cassisu: Of course, the more the merrier! Mom Interrupted is here, she brought treats. I'm just about to put the kettle on.
Feet up--cuppa tea--sweeeet.
WHOA is my reaction to this find. When I was this kid's age, I played with mud, sticks and paper. I would give this kid a charity gift, like "I sponsored a child in your name," or "I bought a goat for a family in your name."