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April 02, 2008 |
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Boo to You
FOUND by Ashley
in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts
I found this down the street next to a car and another ripped up note. I guess someone's parking job pissed someone off.
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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...
First!
Now that I got that out of the way, I like how neighbor is in quotes. Makes me think if they were saying it, they'd use a sarcastic tone.
I think this note is a response to another note signed 'neighbour.'
my favorite part is the shoe print toward the top.
however, i also like how the writer follows the F bomb with "boo to you." at there's a sense of humor.
On further examination, the previous note could also have been addressed with "boo to you"
my first thought was "boo to Jen" for making me think I was at perezhilton for a brief yet horrifying moment.
People get pretty serious about their parking spots. The "boo to you" part is my favorite. It reminds me of my friend Darrick.
Another expression of frustration on the American street. Yeah, I like the quotes around "neighbor" also. Not sure if the writer had to use the "F" word, though.
People, lets try to make each other happy - yes, I am stuck in the 60s, what can I say ?
@Michelle: Nobody HAS TO use the "F" word.
"I want you to park like a normal person, not a genetically inferior 'neighbor'."
I like the not subtle mix of " FUCK" and "Boo to you". It's like calling someone an asshole and then saying nanny nanny boo boo.
Ah, a case of bad parking karma compounded with the domino effect: one jerk parks bad and messes up the whole street/parking lot row for everyone else.
I hope that there was a prior note that spawned this one and that it read simpley: "Booooooo" I like the idea that it may have been left up to the the reader to interpret what the disapproval may be for.
To everyone: Booooooo!
But its not Holloween...
Sorry I always associate Boo with Holloween
at first, i thought the note had the british spelling of neighbour. Then i realized that he/she just started to misspell it, then realized the mistake. i'll shut up now. i got nothin.
THANK YOU, Freonz! I was trying to figure out what had happened and couldn't.
A lot of people forget that someone may have had to park badly because of some other car that left b4 you got there.
For some reason, I LOVE the 'wtf do you want from me?' It kinda turns the tables around. Oh! I get to say? Umm... park like someone who knows how?
I thought it said "bow to you" at first, which would really change the whole tone of the thing.
The Parking Nazi wants your soooouuuuuuuullllllllll. *insert Vincent Price laughter here*
Very brave of you to engage them though: The PN in my neighborhood has been known to key cars if nasty notes don't do the trick.
Throughout most of the Northeast, people driving cars with Massachusetts plates are commonly referred to as "Massholes" because of how phenomenally poorly they operate their vehicles. Watching one Masshole trying to drive a car is kind of like the proverbial "watching two monkeys trying to fuck a football."
They don't actually issue driver's licenses in Massachusetts; you either get one out of a Cracker Jack box, or you print your own on out-of-circulation Monopoly money.
I'm not at all surprised to see a note like this from one MA driver to another, but I can pretty much guarantee it's just another case of the pot and the kettle.
I read “neighbur” as a deliberate combination of “neighbor” and “bur” (as in to annoy or bother: “A bur under your saddle.”)
Now I want to watch To Kill a Mockingbird. Or monkeys tag-teaming sporting goods.
I hardly have anything to say about this find. I mean...what the fuck do you want from me?
To: Monkey
I went home sick yesterday. Yuck. I don't care what Ghost says, I think he told on us for letting the frog escape.
TTYL.
Crystal.
P.S. Girls do not have cooties!
To: Crystal
Ewwww I hope you're feeling better. We found the frog after you left, but I felt bad for him so I decided to free him rather than put him in Ghost's smelly old backpack. (I bet he keeps his gym socks in there!)
XOXO
-Monkey
PS. If Turbo or Flargy say anything about me and sports equipment, don't believe them. They're lying.
Flargy, I first heard the term "Masshole" from some friends I had who hailed from Maine.. I had no idea that it had anything to do with driving and or parking though- I thought it was simply a state of being... from Massachusetts.
Curious, your comment made me think of The Princess Bride, when Buttercup is having a dream that she's marrying Prince Humperdink and that old hag starts yelling, "Bow, bow to the queen of garbage, etc." It sounds like she's saying, "Boo." I bet Prince Humperdink double-parked his horse all the time.
To: Monkey
Gym Equipment?
-Crystal
To Crystal
Lies. All Lies.
Meet me by the see-saw at lunch and I'll explain.
-monkey
I don't know what it is, but damn I love the nasty notes on cars! I mean they really get me laughing.
@Freon - I bet you are right. I live on a city block and everyone knows that you pull up behind an available car, so as most economically park. You do not CENTER your car in front of your house, leaving a half-parking spot on either side! I think the author of this note was forced to park behind one of the inconsiderate "center" parkers!
I wonder if the Finder found the other, ripped up note, too. I mean, did she gather the pieces, tape it back together, and submit IT to Found, as well? That's what I woulda done.
Pamplona -
Inconceivable!
Kneel before Zod!
Is there really a:
proverbial "watching two monkeys trying to fuck a football."
I have never, ever heard that before! I intend to use it! Often;)
Two people meet in an local internet chat room, start flirty emails: "ooo hello there 'neighbour'(nudge nudge, wink wink)", decide to meet up for some dogging, but fail to find each other. Neighbour sends nasty upset email "You didn't come to meet me, you've just been stringing me along, you're never going to leave your wife for me. It's over NEIGHBOUR" This is the response.
That's a far more likely scenario than the parking thing I reckon.
@erm--I've always heard it as "two monkeys fucking in a burlap bag" (at least when referring to how large someone's ass is)...
There is a definite possibility that I will now walk around saying boo to you.
re: massholes
what flargy said. 100%.
Sing "Hey to you - good-day to you"-
Sing "Bah to you - ha! ha! to you"-
Sing "Booh to you - pooh, pooh to you"-
And that's what you should say!
Sing "Hey to you - good-day to you"-
Sing "Bah to you -ha! ha! to you"-
Sing "Booh to you"-
And that's what you should say!
"Bah, bah,"
And that's what you should say!
"Booh, booh,"
And that's what you should say!