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July 13, 2003 |
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Dad.
FOUND by Roger Anderson
in Wisconsin
This note was found in a cookbook purchased at an antique store in rural Wisconsin.
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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...
My favorite part about this is what Roger wrote about it. Words like 'cookbook','antique store' and 'rural wisconsin' add so much flavor to the original text.
talk about a troubled childhood!
Poor kid. This child has now had to take the parental role of worry and been robbed of youth.
What does the last word say??????
The last word says: Police
Im pretty sure it says Police! I wonder exactly what Dad was up to??
He was up to no good. Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha
up to his ears in coke.
WtF
maybe the son is old though....i don't know anyone under the age of 60 with that kind of handwriting. strange.
Sounds like something my husband could say to his dad, lol :)
That's very thoughtful. Good luck, Dad! Watch your back.
I'm not an expert on these things, but if he's up to his EARS in coke he may be doing it wrong.
I'm still trying to figure out how it became used as a bookmark in a cookbook. It might just be me, but the handwriting looks adult. I wonder how old it is.
Good luck to any dad who cooks. Maybe his stew was so good it was criminal?
It was found in a cook book so maybe Dad was making pot brownies. I think I'll call my Dad right now.
yeah that was definitely not written by a kid
The most poignant part of that note for me is the period after "Dad". It says a lot - weary resignation, that the writer has smartly removed themself from the situation, and that it hasn't been the first time.
DAD.
And the recipe on the pape? A really wicked wine trifle of course. Sometimes we can read too much into a chance comment or joke. I want that recipe!
My first thought was of a man in his forties writing a note to his father because Dad is bit of a sauce monster who walks to the bar, then to the liqour store then to the whorehouse. Very 1940s-like.
The boy planted drugs in his dad's lunchbox and reported him to silent observer.
It could be an inside joke. The dad was doing something that could seem shady if you twisted it, and the kid was like, "ooh, you're gonna get arrested!" and then left this note in reference.
I think it's a line from a play, to be spoken by the character Dad. What's missing, the preceding lines in the scene, were on the rest of the page, now torn off and missing. Perhaps the actor playing Dad used this as a bookmark because he kept forgetting this particular line, and hoped that by seeing it constantly it would "sink in."
Anyone consider that maybe it was actually a woman that wrote this note? The frilly writing and the fact that it was found in a cookbook kind of give that away. I could picture myself writing a note like this to my dad if he were still living.
Its definitly a woman's handwritting...
I can see the woman writting it down.
You know, since grandma is dead, granpa been a bit "troublesome"... he goes out alot, and seem to have lost a bit of his judgement. He will go drink or will start arguments with strangers int he streets.
The "." at the end of Dad look like someone who gave up, someone who is scolding her dad but know its not going anywhere anyway.
I love this found ^^
The first thing that struck me is that the top part of the note is missing - notice the torn page. I suspect it was a note written BY Dad to his teenager. Hence the "Dad.", and then he's added the last bit as either a) his final attempt to convince the teen not to follow the original plan, or b) as a way of showing that he's OK with whatever the teen is about to do, and is genuinely hoping the teen gets away with it.
I wonder, at what age does a person's handwriting begin looking "old?" This author's is certainly there...
What amazes me is everyone thinks its says "Police" when it clearly says "Hope you dont get picked up by the POKIE." - We are all on the wrong track here. LOL
It says "Hope you don't get picked up by the police." it has no subject. So is the intent of the note, "I hope you don't get picked up." "we hope you don't get picked up," or more along the lines of "you'd better hope you don't get picked up by the police."???
Sometimes an understood subject is difficult for me to understand.