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May 30, 2007 |
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Don't Get Mad
FOUND by Ashley
in Brooklyn, New York
I found this on the floor in one of my classes. Something made me pick it up and when I read it, I laughed at its cautious yet blunt nature, but kind of pitied the kid who wrote it. All in all, it's pretty cute.
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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...
That is the girliest handwriting for what I assume is a boy.
it's funny that he hopes she won't get mad, but he starts the note with the kind of aggressive "listen". i wonder if he had the guts to give it to her...
maybe it's not a boy - it's a girl writing to girl, that's why she thought she would get mad.... or it's a girl writing to a boy and she thinks he's pretty... or girlie handwriting. oh the possibilites.
I think it's funny how he shortens "you're", but spells out "your".
This is a cute note... if I boy passed me this note, I'd give him my number.
That's an assumption that's as likely to be true as it is to be untrue these days, Anne. My take on it is that it's a girl hitting on another girl, hence the "...I hope u don't get mad...".
Some advice to my students or any other young lady who might recieve a note like this... Although the sentiment is there and it is sweet: Any boy who does not want to spend the time to write out the word "your" (all 4 letters!) is not worth wasting yours on... geezus that irritates me.
What do you bet the writer has a cell phone and does a lot of texting? Cell phones are going to make people 4get how 2 rite. Great day to all!
For todays kids that is the sweetest most innocent thing I have seen in a while. Its heartening :)
if only someone gave me a letter like that now at 28!
this reminds me of a note i got slipped in my driver's ed class however many years ago. this boy had been not-so-subtly flirting with me (and also staring at my ass), and then smoothly tore a corner off of a sheet of paper, scribbled across it, and handed it to me: "do you want to call me sometimes?"
by this, i assume he meant, "you should give me a call sometime so we can hang out," and not, "are there times when you think about calling me, and you realize you would really like to?"
i think the boy who wrote this note should have been a bit clearer about his intentions, and also took the time to spell out "you" and "your," because if it were me, those would be the only reasons for me to get mad at him.
Sweet note. I like the slight concern that she might get mad. My guess though is, that this was written by a girl.
Something about the handwriting suggests it to me...that might explain the 'hope you don't get mad' part.
Ashley neglected to tell you she teaches postgraduate law.
Actually, that handwriting doesn't tell you much. My junior high students all pretty much start out with the bubbly letters. I can only assume that to be the case for upper elementary as well.
You would have to know what grade the class is before guessing gender.
Why are people so lazy??
I text message on my phone often enough, but I refuse to use ridiculous shortened versions of already short words like YOU and ARE.
My mother, who's in her 50's, uses 'netspeak' in her e-mails. It frightens me... a lot.
Also, don't be quick to judge the sex of a person by their handwriting. I know a number of artistic men who have very fancy handwriting. I also know a number of women who have horrible chicken scratch they try to pass off as handwriting.
I agree with Animal, cell phones and IMs are ruining the written language. If he had sent her this in an IM, I probably wouldn't have that much of a problem with it. People who write UR or 2nite or anything like it, however, chap my ass.
Ahhh... remember those days. I don't think the "I hope you don't get mad" part needs explanation-- most young boys are not confident enough (no matter how over-confident they appear) to ask for a girl's number without worrying if she will get mad. I think its cute. :o) And I agree with Jean-- it is heartening.
auuww I think this is cute, I think it maybe a guy, I have really "boyish" handwriting according to many and I know guys with this handwriting
I love the fact that this is from someone in postgraduate law... Turns out that no matter how old you get you're still nervous about rejection
You didn't want me to get mad, but guess what, dipshit...I DID!!!
Get your mind out of the "IM" gutter and your head out of your ass, and try having enough respect for people to spell words in their entirety when writing personal notes to them. (Not to mention having enough respect for yourself to present yourself as something other than an illiterate jackass. Unless, of course, that's exactly what you are.)
It looks like a boy's handwriting to me... reminds me of a really shy boy I dated once, except he never would have had the cojones to send a note like that. So sweet!
Its lovely. I wish more people still wrote notes to each other like that, even with the txtspeak it's still better than the impersonal texts or emails we're limited to now.
I should apologize in advance before getting my head somewhat justifiably ripped off.
I don't think that all illiterate people are jackasses. I know that often times it's through no fault of their own; but rather due to lousy schooling, parenting, or circumstance in general.
That said, idiots who voluntarily appear illiterate out of sheer laziness (or "IM" conditioning) get no sympathy from me.
thats so fucking cute. me and my boyfriend just broke up. and i miss love :'(
stephanie.... My boyfriend and I just broke up. (grammmar police... )
Just for the record, what you miss isn't love. It's lust.
I'm amused by "listen". I love me some irony!
I don't get why people get so angry and wrong grammar and abreviated words. that's what language is, it changes about and it's fun to play with. as long as it's understandable it's right, and putting in all the right apostraphies and shit for you grammar nazis just made writing this extremely boring and take twice as long.
Dude writing this note was too nervous to be gramatically correct. I wrote a note like this to a woman i'd seen on the bus a few times once, and as i set it down on her backpack and got off the bus i realized i didn't know exactly what i had written or if it made any damn sense at all.
The gist was the same: 'you are beautiful, but i don't know how to say that without looking like a misogynist jerk-off creep.'
I haven't seen her on that bus since, and there's a part of me that says: 'you ARE a jerk and you've creeped her out so much that she intentionally avoids riding that bus at that time now. You should just go snip your balls off so you can start treating women like human beings and not sides of meat. Asshole.'
mona lisa hanging in the louvre:
Thank you for being the spider on stephanie’s wall that we were so desperately hoping she had. I’m glad YOU were there to know that she was actually in lust not love. Far be it from her to know the difference. Please do us all the favor of revealing to us our true, inner most feelings, because it’s obvious that only you can know for sure.
What gets me is when people do not use the proper puntuation at the end of a sentence. I am from the "old school" way of thinking, I.E. I was taught to ALWAYS use proper puntuation, and I ALWAYS do, even in an im or an e-mail. Sorry, but that is the one thing that irritats the heck out of me. And just because we have e-mail and im's and text does not mean that someone can use that as an excuse to get lazy with puntuation! but the letter is still a sweet one.
Sunperch, shouldn't that be a capital B at the start of 'but' right after that full stop?! Haha
Dang Rex!!! What was in that letter of yours? Now I want to know.
This is creepy. Walking to your parked car, after work, to find a letter stuck to your windshield wiper. It reads, "You are so beautiful. I see you walk to your car every day. I want to date you". Can you say Stalker!!!!!!!!
mona lisa, if you do not believe in love, I truly and deeply pity you. It is a beautiful thing, and can exist without lust. It's fun when combined with lust, but they are very different things, and neither one requires the other.
I hope for your sake that one day you get to experience Love in all its glory.
I think it's sweet. Odd that it starts with 'Listen' as it's written down!
I do have a possible theory, for what it's worth... Shy boy has been discussing his unrequited-love problem with a female friend (or sister), she tells him to pluck up courage to speak to the girl, and writes this script for him to memorize. Hence the 'listen' and the abbreviations, and the girly handwriting. Maybe. Or not. Hope he did anyway. (Charlie Brown should have gone for it with the little red-headed girl!)
Big hug to Stephanie who just needs some comforting, for heaven's sake. Boo to you meanies for picking on her when she's feeling down. It's cold out here!
Teacher lady: the writer of the note did write the four letter word "your" when he/she asked for a phone number. The "ur" should have made you question how lazy a person has to be not to write a five letter contraction "you're" or two three letter words "you" and "are." I'm glad you don't teach in my area.
Oh sunperch, what's silly is that you spelled irritates wrong...
I wish I could say this was cute, but I gave a boy who randomly thought I was cute in class a chance and it ended up to be a disasterous relationship that ruined my last summer. Fortunately I've moved on and become stronger, but sometimes you can't give everyone a chance.
I also get mad when certain people call me pretty, so its nice he understood that that might happen. Sometimes it's just creepy when boys hit me, I can't help it.
The author of this note is clearly pretty young and inexperienced but who begins a written note with "listen"? Bonus points for using "ur" and "your" in the same sentence.
Maria- it said basically what i said it said, except i probably used a phrase like "inappropriate or out of line" instead of "mysogynist jerk-off" so, it's pretty innoculous, and i gave it to her directly, not secretly slipped in somewhere.
stephanie- it should be more than just creepy when boys hit you.
Stephanie-
Whenever boys hit me, I always find it a little creepy/unsettling as well.
Dear Stripper Gravy in places you've never heard
Thank you for that fantastically sarcastic comment.
I don't profess to know what's going on in other people's hearts or minds. I apologize for insinuating that I did.
And, Josie, in cold Sydney, I have experienced love, both involving lust, and without it. Maybe not in all of it's glory. I am cynical, that when one states after a breakup, how much they miss love, that usually, its the physical reaction of lust and heart racing passion that is so often mistaken for love, that one misses. Not the feeling of love.
Sunperch...
PunCtuation.
monalisa, i see through your cynicism. Your insistence that these post-breakup feelings are rooted in shallow lust betrays your deeper idealization of and infatuation with the concept of "love". You are a secret dreamer aren't you? A true beleiver that love, if it ever truely manifested itself would conquer all, and the fact that all has not yet been conquered proves only that love is not manifest. (Hows that for mind reading?)
This logic is circular. Give it up. Spit on such mawkishness. Let us celebrate what is, not what we wish could be.
Many of you are getting on sunperch's case because he has misspelled a few words. However, his comment is about punctuation. He never claimed that he knows how to spell.
Also, J in a state of confusion, I agree whole-heartedly with you about the Teacher lady.
About the find, my first impression was that it's from a girl to a girl. I also agree that it is pretty cute. :)
no, Louise, that is not a full stop just before the word but. So I am correct in using the small b. and sorry about spelling the word "irritates" wrong. I was a bit tired when I posted. So forgive me for the typo.
I stand corrected, as I re read what i posted yesterday. and you were right about the full stop. Lisa, I am a female instead of a male. It's okay if you assumed that I was a male, as many people do because of my nickname. I choose the nick because I am a female who likes to fish. I do know how to spell, although sometimes I do make a typo or two, like everyone else.
re: Rex in MKE said:
monalisa, i see through your cynicism...........
Rex? are you looking in the windows at me? do you secretly know me?... you read me right on, kind sir.
I secretly know everyone, and everyone secretly knows me.
I am delicately touching your zietgeist in that most intimate of places, whispering sweet lies into your open ears, and making your curly hairs stand on end.
I really wish a guy would be that polite to me. Really cute.
i think its from a girl to a guy. i call guys pretty all the time.
We encourage young writers to develop their narrative style by writing the way they talk, and then when they do, WHAM!, we slam them for it on FOUND. This helps prepare them for adulthood. Heh heh.
excuse me mona lisa in the Louvre, for I am still amateur in the ways of love, but who are you to profess that love is not that feeling of physical reaction and heart racing passion? I believe that love and lust are one and the same, entwined and inseparable, not to different ideas or theories. We could call it lovust!