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August 01, 2004 |
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A Short List
FOUND by Jonathan Shipley
This is the most depressing shopping list I've ever seen. I found it outside in the Fred Meyer parking lot. I hope he's okay.
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to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
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I'll be writing this list someday, probably.
You guys need some Zoloft. This is a list a girl made. She's picking up a bottle of wine, is going to shave her legs before her date, hoping she'll get lucky, and aspirin for the morning cause she'll be makin' love all night.
I like Ziggy's interpretation MUCH better - hope it was the right one!
I have often thought of this shopping list since I saw it online during college two years ago.
I wonder if the person who wrote it ever checks out this site...
"I hope he's okay."
me too.
That is messed up, but in all reality i have a list like that as well, i dont know if ill need to use it, so far i just use alcohol.
could be referring to rubbing alcohol, restocking the first aid kit?
Come on! Ziggy is so right. She's getting lucky! I have had a list like that but mine included some new body spray and a nice smelly candle. who knows maybe she already had them.
Definitely treating a snake bite victim. :p
80 mg asprin is the daily dosage to prevent heart attacks isn't it? I think so.
"Alochol" Do you really need it if you can't spell it?
it seems to me like "alcohol" is referring to rubbing alcohol(if they were getting liquor why not just write "beer" or "wine"?), i just don't think the writer was suicidal.
If suicide was the aim, would alcohol really be a list topper? How concerned could someone be about contamination at that point?
But - aspirin thins the blood, which would make the endeavor a quicker one...
somehow I don't buy it... would a person considering suicide actually write a list!?!
maybe it is a "diy circumcision" list? it looks like a guy's handwriting to me but i've been wrong before.
anyway if i were going to commit suicide, i'd want to drink first so it wouldn't seem like such a big deal (i guess i'd say "booze" instead of "alochol" though). and i'd have to write a list or i'd forget something and have to try again the next day. who knows if i'd even be up for it by then!
pretty ominous list any way i try to look at it.
Hm, maybe he/she uses rubbing alcohol before shaving to clean the skin, and aspirin is unrelated. Also kinda weird that they couldn't remember three items and had to write it down.
Come on people! She's gonna get drunk and shave her legs. The aspirin is for when she sobers up and realizes that she's nicked herself repeatedly. She clearly knows herself pretty well, that's all.
If it was the Fred Meyer driving school, I kind of understand why they wrote that list. That man is evil!
I'll go with the dyi circumcision or leg shaving. Why the need for aspirin in a suicide?
Alcohol...check...Razor blades...check. trade the aspirin for some Vicodin and we got ourselves a party! Whoo Hoo!!
Time to party!
as much as i like the more positive view of this list... i initially took it the other way, and am now very nearly in tears.
I have written shopping lists like this in the past.
Mind you, a friend of mine writes deliberately misleading shopping lists that read, for example:
Cat food
bread
chainsaw
milk
eggs
arsenic
flour
juice
bananas
gas mask
solely in the hope that someone like us will find it and wonder what the hell they are planning.
Darkshines, we have done the exact same thing with our grocery lists, only they look like this:
Milk
Juice
Bread
Ball Gag
Eggs
Lube
Shower Curtain
live badger
chicken
handcuffs
All of you folks are way off. This is obviously a list of the three things the writer would want most if he/she were stuck on an uninhabited island.