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June 05, 2007 |
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Cover Girl
FOUND by Leslie Porcelli
in Rocky Point, New York
I found this item in a drawer of a sewing machine from the 1970s. I bought the machine for fifteen dollars at a fundraising garage sale for Boy Scouts about four years ago. It is written on the back of a blank Allstate Insurance Inspection Report. I still wonder if she ratted the cheater out.
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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...
>>insert child's sing-song voice<<
ooooo....someone's in trouble.
i'm not a pot or lid either! so there. (what the hell does that mean?)
and i don't want to play covergirl any more. *you* see how *your* complexion likes the goop all the time!
Heard of film noir? This is found noir.
And that Insurance Inspection report? Dust it for prints and you'll find Fred MacMurray's.
Ouch!!! Sounds like someone's got some apologizing to do. Get on yer knees, bro!
I get the rest of the note , but I don't get the " I am not a lid or a pot "
I like the definition of cover girl directly under it, if only the writer had offered the same for the lid and pot reference. I think being a lid is to cover for someone but I don't know what a pot would be then.
Pots hold things and lids cover. I think she's being abscurely metaphorical.
a lid ON a pot would make more sense.
I think someone told her, "I'm sleeping with Wolfgang, but keep it under your lid!" And she replied, I'm not a pot; I have no lid.
Has anyone noticed how a lot of these finds are written in similar handwriting? Children in France learn to write in basically uniform script; maybe adults of a certain generation in the US did the same thing.
Or maybe I'm being overly analytical!
I'm thinking someone said to the writer "There's a lid for every pot," talking about people getting together and the writer is basically saying she does not want to be any part of the dating drama. She's saying "I'm not a lid or a pot and I want none of your little games if this is what love is all about."
That's my thought.
Amen sister!
I think Laura is a hammer. She hit the nail right on the head. :)
Great find & even more interesting what it was written on. Wonder if the boiling point was wanting that said someone to lie on their insurance forms or something?
Very interesting too, that it was in a sewing machine. Makes me wonder if was left there for the recipient, or if the writer put it there to think on it for a while and forgot?
'Nuff said. Clearly conveyed.
Yeeeaah. We, uhh, we seen dis comin' frum a'wayz back ya know. We know'd da cuva chick thang wuz gonna looz itz flo. Sum thangz ya jus' gotta let lie ya know. We seen da both sidez a dis one an' we'z not supriz'd it come to dis. Ya know'd it eh. Really, we seez it all. Y'all can be sho yo sinz gonna find y'all out. Deah iz no inshu'ance fo' sum o' dis shit dat we'all down heah on dis shizzel fact'ry.
Hey, A, My mother (RIP) and her sisters all have (had) the same handwriting. They were all born in the 1920s, learned The Palmer Method from the nuns. Wish I had stricter teachers. I can't read my own writing a good bit of the time.
In my sewing machine drawer are two of my wisdom teeth that were pulled from my head in 1977. Can't decide to whom to leave them. The may cause some consternation to the future owner.
I only learned recently that a "lid" is a form of measurement for buying pot... and I am in my 40s!!!! Sheltered life. But it doesn't sound like a drug reference here.
I, too, recognize that handwriting, but the person I know who writes like this is a man who was not born in the 1920s. He probably would write something like that, though.
Well, shoot, I meant my mom and aunties had the same writing as each other. Much neater than the above. My mother-in-law and her sisters, too, have the same writing as my mom.
oh... I feel so sorry for this lady! I totally got put in that position one time, covering for a friend who was having an affair. She didn't even ask me if I would do it, just assumed I would. We had been BFFs for 10 years, I guess 10 years was how long that forever was. :( No friends no more. I'm no frickin lid either.
I really like the Covergirl refrence...
And I thought Covergirl was cheap make-up. I'm forever learning new things here at Found!
Hey! I'm not a lid or a pot either! Coincidence? I think not. We must be long lost relatives or something.
When I began reading this find, I was all like, "Oooo, it's a game! How fun! Let's see...this person's not a lid and this person's also not a pot. Hmm...maybe this person's a Bundt pan!?!" Then she dashes my hopes for a game by saying that she don't play no Covergirl games. Damn it.
I can vividly picture this lady's friend saying, "If you love me, you'll cover for me and Frank Franooli and let me continue having a affair." Later on, the non-lid/non-pot/non-Covergirl dashed off this note, even getting a barb in about her friend's poor grammar (see "a affair"). Zing!
I at first thought that the writer was getting a phrase confused: usually pots are mentioned when they are calling kettles black, but I supposed if they were in a hurry they could fight with lids. But I like the interpretations mentioned here better. It shouldn't have been her job to contain or cover for her friend who was messing around. (The Toms, it's nice to see you, too.)
someone confided in her about their elicit affairs and she's saying she's above keeping such a dirty secret. she's not going to be her cover story... her lid to a pot.
She's also not a pot needing such dishonest cover.
???
I like speculating! ^_^ Cool find!
I too, thought at first it was a riddle - LOVE the bundt pan reference from Eggs1234.
Boy, was I wrong. I wonder if the cheater ever got caught. I've never been put in that position, and I hope I never am.
I keep feeling like I wrote this.
Is there a name for the "FOUND" website phenomenon of "feeling like you wrote this?"
Looks like the definition of Covergirl and the phrase "for anyone" were added after the first two sentences were written. It almost sounds like she found out she was the other woman...she's the lid for his pot and she needs to cover their relationship until he can weasle his way out of his current relationship? Maybe?
I think maybe she meant.. I'm not a lid ON a pot..." maybe... who knows..
Sue, That is about the most un-Palmer Method handwriting I have seen...
Don't deny your affair, defy it! With covergirl infidelity concealer.
I really like how she wrote the last capital L.
I also like how it changed each time.
At first I thought it was someone refusing to sing the "I'm a little tea pot" song...until I realized that the song doesn't reference lids.
Also, I love when the writers do all of the sleuthing for us and include definitions. ;)
maybe not a lid as in "keep a lid on it"
don't know about the pot though
Monika, your comment made me genuinely LOL!