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March 06, 2007 |
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Dear Bobby
FOUND by Frank James
in Newfield, New York
Found in parking lot. Bobby is an uncaring bastard.
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Sadly, I used to be that girl. That could be part of the reason that i'm not into to those silly boys anymore.. he he
erase it with a razor blade.
I hope she finds someone that cherishes the notes she gives....
Hey, maybe if Tara knew Bobby better, she would have known he was an uncaring bastard. Let's not blame all this on poor Bobby.
Maybe the "girl who gave it to him" has eyes for Bobby, too, and is the one who dumped it.
Or maybe it's the 6th grade and Bobby doesn't like girls yet...
& maybe he just lost it and is looking for it.
Maybe Bobby's not into "skinnie" girls. Or he's got a girlfriend.
Or maybe he's gay. Or maybe he doesn't go out with girls he doesn't really know.
good "maybe"'s... but, to me, he is a bastard...
or maybe it's the 6th grade and Bobby likes boys.
I don't agree that just because something is discarded means the sentiment behind it isn't cherished. I've spent years decluttering my life because I thought notes like this were "important to keep", and they're NOT - but the idea and feeling behind the note are. I can throw the note away; that doesn't mean I'm throwing the person who gave it to me away.
I gave a note almost exactly like this to a boy in elementary school - and his name was Bobby, too! He wrote back "yes", but we were too young to know how you go on from there. We kind of avoided each other after that. LOL
i think that boys like girls well before the sixth grade
I like the emphasis on "write back". I was never brave enough to write this kind of note. The rejection would just be too much. Maybe that's why I'm a single drunk cat lady.......
I got a note in my locker once and when I pushed it aside to read it later, I lost it. I always wondered what it said. Maybe Bobby lost his note too...
I think it's cute how she wrote "but not as tall as you," like she was trying not to intimidate him. I think Tara is really maybe a troll but she is old enough to know that being "skinnie" and tall-but-still-short-enough-to-make-the-boy-feel-ta is supposedly what every boy wants.
Maybe Bobby replied "yes" on a seperate piece of paper. And maybe Bobby's been distraught about dropping the note ever since. Poor Bobby.
Also, how old is the sixth grade? I'm not American so I never understand it...
I bet they got married soon after this note was discarded... Pretty sure this was written by someone in their 20s...
Maybe Bobby just wants to play the field.
In the sixth grade I turned tweleve.
And around the age of 7, generally people know their sexuality.
awwww! thats so sweet. I agree with Could Be Tara, just because the note was found doesn't mean he didn't write back to her and that they now go to each others houses for tea or whatever...i hope they are very happy together
Aww. That's "sweet-sad"...sweet for the purity of the affection...sad, for the fact that she had to describe herself, thus making me wonder what her self image was like...and oh the memories that brings back. Probably Jr High age I would guess.
Wonder what became of the inquiry.
Hope the booger didn't break her heart!
Tara has guts! I would NEVER have been brave enough to write a note like this! Go girl! ;-)
I hope Bobby appreciated it!
Bobby where ever you are I really hope you liked Skinnie girls because Tara sounds like quite the catch!
Rosa, most sixth-graders are 11 years old when the school year starts.
Maybe Bobby prefers women with a lil' "junk in da trunk"?
Back-in-tha-day we would say "go with". Not "dating" or "going out", granted we were wearing parachute pants and "Frankie says relax" t-shirts.
About the whole knowing one's sexuality at seven. I find that hard to believe. I didn't figure mine out till I was 13.
Thanks for the flashback Peter! Good Times!!
I think Bobby is probably a "judgenmental bitch" anyway. Tara is better off without him.
you must not know about her. she could have another him in a minute. matter fact, he'll be there in a minute.
Peter, dude, you crack me up. You're rad. Have a gnarly summer.
PS Your parachute pants are cool. I put gel in my bangs today, do you like it?
Yeah, I didn't really know what I was *called* until I was 15. Though, admittedly, I'd figured out my preferance. Poor Tara =[ or poor Bobby =[
Maybe it's just a big misunderstanding ^^?
Thanks for that guys.
If I'd have written a note like this (in what I would call 'year seven' -since we're all so set on it being sixth grade)
i'd have put little tick boxes for yes and no.
Fun times.
i'm just repling to the second one by tara- why erase it with a razor blade?
SpaJunkie, you seem to always be in a depressing situation. "Stressville Junction" today, "MondayGloom" yesterday...
I don't miss those note passing days at all. Tara-give it some time, don't rush into anything. Save your love for someone who cares.
Even if Bobby chose to discard the note, that doesn't make him a bastard. Maybe he simply doesn't like Tara. There's nothing wrong with not liking someone. OR maybe he doesn't even know who she is because she didn't have the courage to approach him in person.
Skinny...tall...brown hair...gee, that doesn't describe a huuuuge percentage of chicks all over the world...maybe if she wasn't so vague Bobby would have came around...
When I was in fifth grade I gave my now-boyfriend of ten years a note, not that unsimilar to this one...and look at us now! And the funny part of the story is, he never even responded! We got together two years later and he didn't even remember that note way back from fifth grade!
Those were the days, when you would date a guy and the only contact you had was via notes because you were too busy spending time at opposite ends of the school yard :)
I AM Tara!I wrote that note to Bob,(we've been married for twelve years!!)WE grew up in Newfield.I adored him from afar for 5 whole months before I got the guts to write him.He did write me back,and swears that he still has that note,although I haven't seen it since I wrote it almost 27 years ago!!
I was always the girl delivering the notes for my friends. "Come on guys, can't we just go play on the monkey bars?"
Triangle, you can erase so much with a razor. Why not the pain of rejection?
I want someone to pass me a note! It has been forever; those were the days...
Jen in Nowhere, Tx (I think I've driven through there), here's a note to you, because these are the days too.
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Jenny, I really like you, I was wondering if you wanted to post comments with me! You might not know me...I'm skinnie, probably taller than you and I have brown hair.
WRITE A COMMENT at foundmagazine.com since I know you don't know me.
Big Heart,
Eggs1234
i wrote a note like that once. the boy actually ended up showing it to everyone in my class and well i remember everyone laughing about it. pretty tramautizing actually. but don't worry about me, he was interested in me years later and i turned him down flat.
i wrote a note like that once. the boy actually ended up showing it to everyone in my class and well i remember everyone laughing about it. pretty tramautizing actually. but don't worry about me, he was interested in me years later and i turned him down flat.
I don't know, things have been found in much stranger places and sent to this site. I'm not rooting for the bastartd or anything, we just can't assume that he didn't write back.
Bobby is my homie; Tara is a CREEP.
Tara, are you pulling our legs, or is that really you? Have you found out anything more about what happened to this note? Please update, this has got to be a first - someone finding their own stuff on this site!
Well, the note doesn't look 27 years old.. And if it -were- 27 years old, I think a parking lot would be an incredibly unusual place to find it..it's not like it would sit in a parking lot unnoticed for so long.. Wouldnt in a library in a book somewhere sound more reasonable? hmm..
Maybe Bobby really did keep the note all those years. Perhaps he was feeling nostalgic one day on the way to somewhere and accidentally dropped it in the parking lot of his destination. Everyone needs a sweet reminder every once in a while. Maybe it reminded him of why he really loved her in the first place, and now he is quite distraught to have lost it. I think that whoever found it should mail it back to Bobby and Tara so they can put it in their photo album.
I read that and chuckled a little bit,
My sister's name is tara, and she actually liked a boy named bobby once.
But I'm nowhere near New York...
Good Find.
I love how she says, "but not as tall as you". Guys don't like girls taller than them ya know.
I see two possible scenarios here:
1) It's no secret that Skinnie's been around the playground a few times. Bobby, knowing the score, wants nothing to do with that little tramp. He's decided that he wants to make it through puberty with no more changes to his junk than what he's already seeing (although the part about "give it to me," "give it to the girl who gave it to you," etc. does sound like the way an STD might make the rounds in a middle school class).
2) Bobby is already banging Skinnie's younger sister, and he doesn't want to find himself in a "Larry from Three's Company" situation.
I think it's a combination of both.
Skinnie Tara is a tramp and Bobby is banging her younger sister.
mwahaha. oh, Flargy.