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April 01, 2007 |
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AJS
FOUND by Laura Smarrito
in Albany, New York
I found this obviously-forged note on the ground. I like to think that the person who wrote it was very proud of their forging skills and was distraught to discover they had lost their masterpiece.
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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...
great lol
i wonder what the person was thinking when he/she started the signature off with a star...
Poor, dumb girl. I quickly learned MY lesson in 2nd grade. Ouch.
absents.
hahah
There is a five pointed star in the "signature."
nice.
If the circles above the 'i's isn't obvious enough the misspelling of excuse and absence is a bit off a tip off. Ended, of course by what looks like a star, a J, an S, and a spiral as a signature.
Hahaha, well maybe their parents have super fat bubbly letters and poor spelling skills. Who are we to know, hmmm?
Very interesting initials though.. The added star is a nice touch.
Nice signature
You can definitely tell it was forged. Partly because of the very youthful handwriting and partly because of the word "absents" which is supposed to be "absence". Ain't youth grand?
I was a master forger in highschool... when the school councelor gave me a card that all my teachers had to sign when I went to class, I just forged them all. Then, took it and forged my parents signature. It took them about a month to realize I was still not going to class. I can still even write in near perfect Mom handwriting, and even she can't tell the difference. (Signature and all)
The fakest parent note ever!
This really does look forged- from the simple sentences to the bubbles used for dots, and the missing comma for "daughter's". I think an adult would know how to write a better note than this.
Absents... ?
lol. she didn't even try.
HAHA i LOVE the signature!
I wonder if she (judging by the writing) gave it to the teacher, and whether or not the teacher believed it.
Um, please excuse my bad forging skills, as my Mother knows how to spell much better than I do and of course would undoubtedly sign her whole name. (Because she likes to write "Dr.")
Yep - bet somebody was a wreck when they realized their note was gone.
ha i love this. i can rememeber doing similar forgeries. it would take hours but then after a while i would come to my senses and realize it would never work. maybe AJS's daughter realized the same and tossed it on the way to school.
this poor girl has a lot to learn about forgeries.
This looks like the handwriting of every girl in my 7th grade class. The "signature," if you can call it that, looks more like the @ sign with a couple more doodles and whirls. Did they even try to copy one of their parents' signatures? And I love how "absents" makes you wonder if she meant the plural? or if she meant 'absence'. I bet this note was tossed in the trash by the Unit Office secretary after telling the girl "yeah right, get to class. That'll be a detention after school." I'm sure it sparked a lunchtime conversation amongst the secretaries of all the crazy excuse notes they've received from hopeless kids pretending to be their parents. I say always go with the phone call on the day you'll be "sick" b/c they can't really say you aren't your mom or dad if you make some effort.
HAHAA That signature is so funny.
I used to try this trick when I was little: Just make a scribble and hope it looks like a signature.
This girl drew a star with a swirl around it in the same hopes.
This is as classic as it is funny. Obviously the misspellings give it away...but the signature...is the mom in a coven?
So fake... I could tell even before I read the comments.
that was gay and i cried then a lamb ran out of my house
Sadly, some of the parents in my daughter's class write like this. Well, perhaps minus the funky handwriting, but the spelling mistakes and odd signatures, yeah.
It's a sad reality that this note, could have, in fact, been written by a parent. There are some young parents out there that are little more than "children" themselves. That didn't make it through the education system, or worse yet, did and this is what they emerged with. I really, really hope this is a child's attempt at a forgery, but I'm afraid I've seen adults write like this.
Lol. I'm a bit speechless.
I taught my daughters how to write like me at an early age. Then, I let them write their own "excuses" as they were growing up. It was a way that they saw that I trusted them and am proud to say they never abused the trust. I will say that at times I was shocked that they did not abuse the trust, but they didn't. To this day I laugh at how they should have abused the "system". I guess they were so busy trying to prove that they could be trusted that they really could be trusted!
uh...stephanie in asheville, nc...there would not be a comma in daughter's. maybe an apostrophe, but no comma.
My sister's name starts with an A; she always writes her name beginning with a star. Perhaps the parent in question has the initials AJS???
one of my best friends is an awesome forger..... forges everything.... and no one notices.... i never write my signature anywhere near her cuz i know she'll practice it till she can duplicate it...
In junior high, I used a star at the beginning of my name, instead of a capital "A".
I know plenty of adults with bubbly handwriting who can't spell. This could be legit.
Probably isn't, but could be.
...and I always thought my attempts to forge excusal notes from my dad were amazing...makes me wonder what the secretaries really thought.
Hahaha this is great...I'm in my last year of my high school and I'm still writing the fake notes..
I believe this could be legit, after seeing the notes I get from parents.
I think that's probably how her mom really signed her name. It looks like the forger really practiced it, as that is the most integral part of a forged note after all.
My daughter did this in grade school, she was quite good at forging my signature. But not good enough....she was busted, and grounded, so let that be a lesson to the kiddies: you will not get away with it!!!!
Nicky and Heather W if you beleive this could be legit after seeing notes from your students, then i beleive you've been accepting some piss poor forgeries from your students. gullible teachers!
My folks divorced when I was in Jr High and I stayed with my dad. So in high school, they had no record of my mom's signature. So I had the same friend write excuse notes for me and they worked every single time.
I do recall, though, in 7th grade a friend of mine wanted to borrow a Judy Blume book to read, and since it was actually my mom's book I went home and asked her first. She said she needed a note from my friend's parents. My friend was apparently banned from reading some books (wtf is up with that!?) so she forged a note. Signed it "Colleen's Dad". Seriously. I looked at it and told her flat-out that my mom was a dolt, but would still never buy that. She swore up and down that is how her dad signed notes... but I was right, my mom laughed and asked for the parent's phone number, and friend gave up.
Wonder if she ever got to read the books she wanted to read?
Honestly...if you're going to do such a bad job at forging a note, check your spelling and make sure your "parent's" signature doesn't have a giant star in the middle of it.
This made my day. :)
Rex, Nicky and Heather W. are NOT suckers for believing that "adults" could be writing notes like these; they do. Not everyone is smart, and not everyone is educated. Many, many parents are seriously that juvenile and unable to write and spell. For over ten years, I have taught college-level composition at a four-year university (where standards for admission are supposedly very high) and now, I also teach at a community college (where anyone can get in, and anyone does): many of my community college students write EXACTLY like this when they come to me--spelling, punctuation, handwriting, and all. They are functionally illiterate. Look up the concept before you start berating teachers for being gullible.
Carrie, sounds to me like maybe you're a sucker for not recognizing that your 'adult students' are actually eight year olds in disguise.
I love this, I'm going to be an elementary school teacher and I can't wait to see forged notes!
In high school my mom always gave me the permission to forge her signatures on report cards/field trips. ( I never had bad grades...and why wouldn't she let me go on a field trip...)
And if their was any suspicion she'd just say she signed it.
The handwriting just screams "tween." Although I, too, have seen adults misspell very easy words. I've been reading books all my life, am a pretty good speller (in my opinion) and a grammar Nazi, so I've spent much of my time correcting adults. Even now in my Philosophy class, when there's a test, I spend half the time taking the test (they're pretty easy) and the other half correcting the professor's grammar. Gah...
~Saki
P.S. For the record, I have terrible handwriting and use cursive as little as possible, so I've never forged anything. (My mom's handwriting is so beautiful and smooth...WHY NOT MINE?!?! *cries*)
I've written countless forged notes and signatures.
I hope mine weren't this bad...
That's fake? No way.
thats hilarious. too bad to even comment on. i would have loved to see the look on the lady who took the note from her in the office. i would have said "like hell." hahaha. im much better at my mothers signature too.
By high school, I was adept at both forging my mother's signature and impersonating her on the phone. I was definitely "sick" a lot my senior year.
These are just skills kids need to learn in school. Unfortunately, this poor girl fell behind.
The signature on this little bugger is its crowning glory, for sure.
She deserved to get caught if she couldn't do any better than that. God- what is the youth of America coming to when they can't even forge a good note?
This has got to be one of my favorite finds ever! I'm guessing it was on the ground because the girls friends saw it, laughed at it, and just ended up writing it for her.
When I used to cut school, my friends and I would take turns calling the office from the payphone that was right outside (!!) and give the various excuses we made up for each other. I had a lot of doctors appointments that year. It's amazing really but, we never got caught.
No no no... this one's EVEN fakER!!
But it's a top contender for sure!
http://www.foundmagazine.com/find/596
Haha, My mom gives me permission to forge my notes, Because usually if I'm going to be late it's because something happened on my way to school, So I'll just stop across the street from school, pull out a notebook and write a note saying i had a headache.
The School doesn't always believe me, But they won't call my mom to check if it's Legit because she bitched them out when i was in Ninth grade two years ago. Oh the memories.
When my mother writes me notes, They are normally long.
It'll Say something similar to this:
Elizabeth _____ Was late today [insert date here] Because seeing as you refuse to give Our town buses to school even though we're the farthest away, our children still have to walk to school, And because it's Icy outside i do not want my daughter to cross the highway and risk getting hit by a car for the Second time because of the lack of buses, seeing as half of the walk there is no pavement and it is very busy before 9AM. Also, If you would hire a crossing guard, the children will be much safer, i really don't like the fact that my daughter has to cross a busy street with a broken cross light of which she is scared to walk across because of her two year anniversary getting hit by a car on that very street.
They go on and onnn and onnnnnn.
OH MY GOD! HAHA! I used to have a classmate from St. Teresa of Avila in Albany, NY that had the same hand writing as this person (I noticed because of the letter 'e') and the same signature. No lie. Her name was Katie and I would always ask her, whenever she forges notes, if the teachers suspect anything cause her mom and dad's signatures are very simple, their initials and a circle on them. She wanted me to keep quiet, but I know that she was going to get caught one day. I don't know if she did. I moved to California and never heard from her again. I'm going to NY this summer though and I hope to see her. Haha.
I digress too much.
I'm pretty sure this has a Pagan signature. some how, i dont believe this was a fake note. I think she just wrote her "e"s weird, and that she can't spell well.
you'd think that they would require more than an arcane symbol to prove that a mother wrote this.
Wow, blazing forgery, lol.
Actually, you'd be surprised how many adults write like that! See it a lot at work...