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May 29, 2007 |
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Done A Lot Of Growing Lately
FOUND by Bill Stiteler
in Minneapolis, Minnesota
I work in the mail room of a small university. We occasionally get deliveries for people who are no longer here; in this case, it was a small bouquet of flowers. Alas, the intended recipient left, years ago.
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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...
wow, how sad! he will never know if she just moved or if she just moved ON!
That's so sad. But he must have been (or still be, but faking) a serious flake not to know she's moved. Maybe he sent a small bouquet to all the places he could think of, just on the off chance... sad.
took too long to grow, apparently
How sad.
Wow. Thats actually really sad. I wonder what he/she needed to change. And I wonder if they ever re-connected again.
I don't trust this note.
This letter makes me sad, mainly cause it sounds sincere and hopeful and never made it to its intended recipient. They obviously weren't close anymore or they would have know of the departure, but the recipient had made some sort of long term impression on this person. Sad.
I hope they found closure another way.
the penmenship is beautiful....if i worked in the mail room i would have tracked down the recipient.
how sad.
I hope to see you soon too
That sums up often what I've wanted to say to my first love.
Too little, too late.
this looks posed, fake, A FRAUD.
Rather shady to send flowers and a note thinking that is enough to repair old hurts. If I got this, I would be very suspicious of the intentions.
It should really read:
It's been a while since I pissed you off and you kicked me out. Missing you feeding me and washing my work clothes for my crappy part time job. I've changed....for the better with this haircut. Done alot of growing lately as my collection of comic books really has me reading alot more. Hope to see you soon when you will feast your eyes upon my new-found rock-awesomeness, remembered what you really missed about me (sex) and let me weasel my way back into your pants and use of your car.
-Scooter-
The "handwriting" looks like a computer font to me... I'm with Jan, SALT and mata, I think if I got this, I wouldn't *care* if the person had grown or not (otherwise I would have stayed in touch!).
It's a nice note, but I feel that the recipient HAS moved on...and that's for the better too.
Also makes me wonder how bad it was 'before.'
"Done a lot of growing lately" usually translates to, "No change, but i'm much better at concealing my faults."
In a perfect world flowers and notes work. In this world? I too love the handwriting and appreciate the effort. It is never too late to reinvent yourself. Now the sender can say, "at least I tried".
been there, done that, bought the t shirt, sent the postcard. Turbo is 100% right; and pretty funny, too. Screw scooter.
What a crock of shit.
Not to sound like a bitter old bag, but "I've changed" usually means, "Silly human...I've become more adept at hiding my true self and can probably contain my assholeness until it's too late and you're trapped." Yes, I've been the victim of "I've changed" before. A very expensive mistake to make. Run for your life, Oh-Intended-Recipient-Of-Bouquet!
I've been tempted recently to send a note like this. I'm proud of this person for having the guts to follow through
who sends flowers to a campus mailbox? Who sends flowers if he doesn't know the person is still there? who goes out of contact with a person for years and then doesn't include contact info?
this smells of a fakery to me.
This is one disenchanted bunch. Doesn't anyone believe in love or second chances anymore?
OHHH MYYY, so many pessimistic ppl!
First- note probably written by flowershop attendant, who tend to have nice handwriting.
second- There *could* have been contact info on the front of the card.....
third- CHANGE IS POSSIBLE!!!!!! and I like how they....thought...about...it....and added..."for the better" so there was NO confusion about that.
Fourth- doesn't intention account for anything? The person (could be a her by the way) who wrote this needed to do it for themselves. To heal, to try, to put it out there. Bravo my sad flower sending friend. Many blessings of good things in your future.
PS- I received a phone call like this one time, from my first love. I fell for it. I got back together with him, for like a day! until I realized that although he had changed, it wasn't enough, and that I had changed even more. I wish we had changed in the same direction.
damn you people are bitter.
It's easier to be pessimistic and occasionally suprised than upbeat and constantly let down. Everything doesn't require a smiley face.
It's nice to see people are willing to admit to the fact that they are growing "for the better". Some are too proud to believe he/she can grow and continue to grow "for the better", thinking they are perfect. The more we grow, the more we understand each other. This note was a brave note. This note may be a bunch of BS, but I choose not to believe that. I want to believe in mankind, again, because I've lost faith in people.
I agree with erin, and thank you car and John
this gives me goosebumps!
10-4 Flargy. Been there too many times. too little too late
To those of you who are aw-how-sweet-ing this note and tsk-tsking all of us skeptics and cynics:
Please give me your email addresses, as I have a once-in-a-lifetime financial opportunity to offer you! It's as easy as buying a bridge in Brooklyn, only much more lucrative!
Anxiously awaiting your complicity and continued naiveté,
Prince Flargy of Nigeria
I wondering if the growing he referred to was growing flowers!
Well Flargy and the rest of you pessimists why should I buy into the negative. Sure I know what the real world is like but there are still many decent people in it.
The growing this kid did probably didn't include getting smarter. People are in dorms for as long as they're in college. In my case, I was out after one year, talk about living in hell...
As for this "I've Changed" bullshit, please, if you loved them you would have changed DURING the relationship. Suck it up and move on.
(I'm not a fan of "getting back together," can you tell?)
Okay happy people, lets say sender's intentions are good. Lets say she really thinks she's grown (first off, i'd hope she could find a more specific and less cliche wasy of saying it) but, really, probably, she's wrong.
Love and failed relationships are like god. You beleive what you really want to beleive, not what is true. The happier the story is, the bigger the promise, the more comforting, the more likely it is to be self-deluded bullshit. I'd be more likely to respond positively to a note from an ex that said: i'm bored and lonely, wanna fuck?
Did Mr. and Mrs. Cranky-pants get up on the wrong side of the bed this morning? I wish I were there to give you a soft blanket, make you a nice cup of cocoa and read you beautiful stories of wonderful, loving relationships that have survived the ravages of time and circumstance. Every great love story includes a period of separation, a time of personal challenge and growth, and a return, a coming together with greater maturity, awareness, appreciation and humility. Perhaps the intended recipient of this note taught Elizabethan literature for a year or two before moving on. We'll never know. I like to think the writer was her colleague, whose ambitions drew him to accept a position at a larger university, yet who continued to long for her and the quiet simplicity of the life they once shared. There's a tone of respectful restraint in the note, as though he knew it would be read by others and didn't want to offend by being too familiar. And there is a quavering undertone of hope -- hope that his feelings might still reflect hers. My hope is that they got back together, made whatever sacrifices were necessary to stay together, and are growing old together as cherished lovers and best of friends.
Either that or he's trying to sign her up for Amway.
You silly people -- the note is from THE FLOWERS! They've done a lot of growing lately.
Why are people so sceptical these days?? Is it really so hard to believe that the writer might actually have had good intentions? it's sad that so many people only ever think the worst.
I think it's sweet - I'd like to receive flowers and a note like that.
I find this really inspiring.
When people say that it's usually not true.
so, what's the purple paper poking out from between the folded layers of white paper?
I bet you have, my friend...I bet you have.