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Remember My Promise
FOUND by Patty
in Oregon
This note was found neatly folded on the stairs in my high school.
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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...
Like anyone reads the small print...
...defense.well, change takes time, especially when the spam filter gets savage
Why do you want a guy who has been "from girlfriend to girlfriend?" You may be able to give him something special, but so can he to you. (Can you say STD?) As me old mother used to say, "You don't know where it's been."
If he's with "her" and is unwilling to tell you "what could make it better," he's already telling you. For him, it's not being with you.
Girl, you need to talk to Michelle. She'll help you get your self-respect back.
knock knock, passive aggressive calling.
Passive-aggressive? Meet my friend, Restraining Order.
Dear #12,
What SHE said.
Michelle
PPS WHO GETS UPSET ABOUT MATCHING PUDDINGS??? YOU AND YOUR SERIAL DATING BROTHER WILL MEET YOUR NEMESIS' SOME DAY.. SO FORGET ABOUT THE PROMISE CONSIDER IT BROKEN.
P.S. I love you.
For some reason, the way she writes her «y» feels very unpleasant to me.
at first i thought it looked like boy-ish writing, i still think it could be. him and the fellow he's writing to had some kind of encounter and now the recipient is in denial... just a little story i entertained myself with.
Oh gag, puke and so on.
p.s. Linlaw, I was thinking the same: Who reads the fine print? If I don't have my glasses with me, then forget it.
Julie, yeah. The tails on the Y's are unsettling, and the G's too. Sharp as spears piercing, slicing the lines of neatly-arranged letters.. a break in control. She stubbornly writes on, ignoring the letter-tails that splice the lines and crashing through them with her organized alphabet, as if she doesn't see them, the same way she blindly ignores the behavior of the boy who she thinks loves her.
What are you unable to give him?
Just curious
Sort of ironic, or maybe just hypocritical, I think, for the note author to define "love" for the recipient and the definition is that love is not control, hmmm.
Yeah, love is not control but you better not show this to a graphologist.
@Clover -- I see you had the same thought!
On a different subject, American Apparel has gone upscale with the French beret in the banner ad today. That's classy!
Holy cow! Run away, run away, run away! And make sure your pet rabbit's in a safe place!
VERY scary.
"The large print giveth and the small print taketh away".
- Tom Waits, who I really don't like -
I think she will only give him handjob at this juncture. She's probably made some clean teen christianiac jesus camp promise, and the fine print reads do not open these thighs until your wedding night.
Cut to the future where the note writer is seen on all fours at a fraternity house party giving them all she "is able to give at that point..."
Wow- those third graders are getting pretty serious these days. Third grade girlie shouldn't be chasing after highschool boys anyway.
.. then you can staaart-- to make it better, better better better ahhh..
BTW: HPD, WTF with the all caps? you're hurting my very soul. (and no. Manuel did not type in all caps. it was all lower case.)
I AM MANUEL! - IN MY COUNTRY WE HAVE NO LOWERCASE KEYS! WE ALSO SHOUT AT EACH OTHER ALL THEM TIME!!
...sorry about all those soul injuries...
@Clover --
What French beret?
I've been trying to buy a new beret but I couldn't find one in France! Eventually I happened on one on a tourist souvenir stall in Piccadilly, London. 'Made in France' it says...
Meawhile I hope the reader of the note got the message and ran away as fast as his little legs could carry him.
Anyway how can you trust a woman who splits infinitives ('to freely give')??
Other than the stabby g and y, there is something that I like about this handwriting. What does the graphologist have to say about that?
P.S. I thought love is never having to say you're sorry. Who knew?
@Hiplainsdrifter: your comment was most excellent. I decided to imagine note-writer girl in Jr. High, where a dry kiss was all she could give at that point, and in late elementary where holding hands was all she could give at that point.
Fast forward to when she turns 21: She'll be on the set of an adult film shoot, declining to perform certain acts on the donkey and the midget, all the while claiming she's giving all she can give at that point.
It's not only the writers letters G and Y.. The I s are also very shouty and insistent. (and self Important)
..In hopes that they can give you what I can give... but you are unhappy with what I am able to give you at this point..
It's all just too confusing.
@ Geek NOT in my mom's ...nono > not declining - suggesting! ...and the people on the set will be the ones declining with a "gee ...ah... no you could get hurt really bad, and we just don't want the liabibilty..."
liabibilty? nice...
He tried to tell you that what could make his life better is to be without you.
Accept, and move on.
Dear silly high school girl,
Your big mistake is believing you know him better than he knows himself. Learn to really listen to people. It'll save you a lot of heartache.
Sincerely,
Silly judgenmental grown-up
I'm confused by the P.S.
Does the writer intend that "remember" is what she, herself, is doing [as in "I love you and I remember that love is not..."]?
Or is she trying to say "remember" is something her errant lover boy should be doing [as in "I love you, and I want to remind you to remember that love ..."]?
Love is confusing enough without having to wade through sentence structure like this.
Ugg... this whole thing is spelled out in the first half of the first sentence. "You are no happier with her..." <<game show buzzer>> he's moved on you're now in stalker mode - get over it - there is no salvage to be done here.
Or could it be from the lunch lady to the principal???
The Fine Print:
The benefactor hereby pledges to abstain, for a full 24 hour period prior to the event, from consuming any foods and/or beverages of particularly potent flavor (i.e., hot peppers, lemons, black coffee, garlic, horseradish, whiskey, etc.), in order to minimize any unpleasantness which the benefactor may experience in the course of her carrying out the aforementioned promise.
Ignoring the frightening / silly content of the letter, I'm entertained that she went back to correct the capitalization error in "Change takes time", but left "In hope of".
I HATE notes like this! Do girls have no dignity??? My son's XGF tried to run him off the road, but instead planted her Camaro in a plowed field at a high rate of speed. When he went to see if she was still alive (imagine the feeling), she clung to his knees weeping & begging him to take her back. And she was the one who broke up with him in the first place, twice in one week! The stalking ended pretty much the next day, thankfully...
Girls! Get some dignity for cryin out loud!
Here's what a handwriting analyst would say:
The girl is neat, organized but emphasizes appearance over substance "now" for know, "point and time" for "point in time" -> she's looking at the shapes of her letters, and not focusing on what she means to say. Also the way the capital I's are written, at the bottom going from the center to the left FIRST and then from left to right, shows she can't stop thinking about the past. The stabby y's and g's show she puts her needs first, not giving way to others.
This shows how much I know about analyzing handwriting, assuming that she was attempting to sabotage her ex-boyfriend's sanity by subjecting him to this letter (both the handwriting and the context, actually). I know I almost suffered an anxiety attack bearing through those Gs and Ys that are clearly taking up more than their share of space.
"...But you are unwilling to tell me what could make it better."
"Really, I thought I had made it quite clear. Stop stalking me, stop calling my house in the middle of the night, stop mailing me your underwear and saying it's 'all you can give me.'"
Jonathan, the beret ad comes and goes at the top of the page. I couldn't find a beret in France either. I bought mine in my own home town, USA! (Probably made in China.)
ahhh! It's like an ex-girlfriend, back to haunt me.
Can we say "serial killer handwriting"?
Those long tails on the Ys and Gs do indeed look wrong. They look kind of angry to me. They get longer and more dramatic toward the end of the page. The way they "stab" into the letters on the line below makes me think of the way someone in a fit of uncontrolled temper might stab a knife into the stomach of someone they hate.
I can't get over how neatly written this purportedly heartbroken girl's handwriting is. All the letters fit so precisely between the ruled lines and they're all so upright and rigid -- normally if someone's writing something with passion and emotion the speed of their writing picks up, the letters head towards italics, etc. I'll bet she wrote this out previously multiple times, edited the hell out of it, and then this final (?) copy was just that -- a copy she made, writing one word at a time as if she were making notes from a textbook.
OTOH, I just want to buy the girl some commas and dashes. Spice things up a bit. Might help her love life. ;D
If you want a beret you need to take up the tuba and join the marching band. Then you'll get one for free. You'll have to steal it to keep it, but...
Maybe if the note writer would do that, she would have something new to concentrate on. IME the bass line is mostly guys.
Or, the spam protection reminds me, you could join the Green Berets.