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October 17, 2007 |
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Grandparents
FOUND by MadtKA
in Berlin, Germany
Everyone who sees this framed picture on my wall thinks it's my grandparents-- but I actually found it in a trashcan near my old, really shitty apartment stuck in a German copy of "Hamlet." No clue who it is.
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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...
Looks like an advertisement for "Dr. Kevorkian's Home Care for the Elderly".
Thats my old lunch lady from grade school!!!
Is she pulling a string on the back of his neck to make him grimace that way?
This is a really weird picture. What is that red stuff? I hope someone can identify these people and explain all the unanswered questions I have.
This picture invokes such feelings of sadness in me, I can't put it into words. They've been together forever. She is so adorable. He obviously had a stroke or something equally debilitating. She still loves him so much. God, it's like the last picture of them together before the kids finally convince her that it's time to pull the plug. I can't look.
I don't think I can come back here today, and see the horrible nasties. See you tomorrow.
(and my last, totally RANDOM thought: I wish I could see what time it is on that clock!)
It seems to me that they are both women. It looks like the lady in the bottom corner has earrings in and those glasses are kind of on the more womanly side.
That is a really wonderful picture! (Yes I'm aware she's holding the man's head in position.) The red brush strokes really add to it, the composition is just great (love the cresent of the clock on the wall), and the look on the woman's face is just so sprightly!
Anyone watch It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia?
Sweet Dee would hate this photo!
just plain creepy
People are missing the pure joy that can be found in the woman on the right's face. Look at her eyes and her smile. She's ecstatic.
People get old that's life. At least these people are trying to dig it while they can. Adorable find.
Ventriloquist act.
She is pulling his hair. Guy, I love that show. Chrome, you're to fuuny.
You're right! The person in the bottom left hand corner does have earrings! Could it be a mother/daughter photo? They both have the same nose, if you look and after awhile, let's face it, you stop looking a certain age and start to look OLD. I'd say it is possible that the lady who's standing is in her 70s and that would make the older lady in her 90s, which is about right, right?
ha ha... this cracks me up. Looks like a pair of comedy and tragedy masks.
i'm with lizardbits (though not in the blender). i reckon they are mom/daughter. what a terrifically happy look on the younger woman's face. i hope i look that happy.
Initially a very sad picture to see, but you then realize that the woman on the right is sooo happy, irregardless of the condition of the other woman, that it makes you feel a little better.
Still, it's haunting to look at...
Is that an ear ring or a hearing aid?
These People look Evil. These expressions on their faces are those of cannibalistic demon. Looks like a good poster for a horror taking place in a senior citizen community. Especially the red smears on the edge. Awesome find.
I've just seen my future...and it is hideous! I hope that if I have the misfortune to live to that age (and who wants to be elderly in today's world?) I can be that happy. But by that time, the condition of the planet will probably preclude all happiness, at whatever age...
Live fast, die young!
I think they are both women too. If you look at the way their shirts button, they're both the same. Men's shirts usually button the opposite way.
Grandpa looks like he's dying and Grandma looks cheerful. Creepy!
I think it's definitely two women...
...and regardless of their relationship, you can feel the love between them.
They maybe sisters, not enough age difference to be mother/daughter -- or maybe best friends, even lovers, who knows?
Don't feel sorry for them. The look on face of the lady on the right face says it all. She has had a wonderful life, one she still enjoys to the fullest.
I hope that if I ever reach that age, I will have found the level of contentment this lady has
What a sweet picture! I guess I was the only one who got the impression that the woman on the right looks like she has down's syndrome, and therefore I deduced that the woman on the right may be her mother and caretaker. I've always thought that people with down's syndrome have the most wonderfully optimistic personalities that are perfectly represented in that woman's expression.
Whoops! I meant to say that the woman on the left must be her mother. My bad.
It is a picture of true love and committment, whatever the gender or relationship. Poignant. It makes me re-think what's really important. A beautiful find.
This is a wonderful juxtoposition of life itself. Reminds me of the vanitas tradition. Life is short, death is certain, and vanity is for suckers.
I think that is a woman too, you can see her hair brushing up next to that sweet happy woman's shirt. Her hair looks to be down to her ear lobe in length. I bet their names are Blanche and Hazel.
This pic was probably taken in a nursing home. That's the daughter visiting her mom and she's just glad she's not there too. However, I bet she just one of those people who naturally look happy all the time.
It was talent day at the nursing home and Bertha wanted to try her hand at Ventriloquism, but little did Florence know where Bertha's hand would end up.
"You will eat the strudel, ya?" Gotta love those German lesbians.....
I am with Chrome and Dave on this one, see you tomorrow.
I’m sorry, but I think the lady on the right looks maniacal, not ecstatically happy. And she seems to be in control of the other woman (I think that is a woman, too) to the left.
If I say old people creep me out, does that make me a bad person?
I'm about to get way deep into this picture, but... It looks like a mother/daughter photo to me, where the daughter has become the primary caretaker. My grandparents [all four living] are 88, one gpa has parkinsons, one gma has alzheimers. I tell you what, the last time I saw my grandpa, even though he couldn't move or speak well, his eyes lit up when he saw me. He is still my grandpa even though his outside shell is failing him. Growing old isn't terrible. It's natural and it's hard and it's a beautiful thing to be a part of the process.
Wow - this is kinda like a Rorschach inkblot test... does what people see reveal some of their inner life? I love this picture! I think it's very happy... it's life. It does look (to me) like a daughter visiting her mom in a nursing home, cradling her so she can be in the picture,too. I have pictures like this of me and my aunt.. though I'm not nearly as cute as the lady on the right. Looks like she's seen a lot of life, and has made the choice to be happy.
It's 4:20 on the clock, and that's why she's so happy.
Gammie? Is that you?
I don't know if anybody has seen the movie "Dead Silence" but its about a widower who returns to his hometown to search for answers to his wife's murder, which may be linked to the ghost of a murdered ventriloquist. The ventriloquist uses dead people as a life size ventriloquist doll, she sticks a pole in there head and makes them seem alive to trick the widower into thinking his father is still alive. The ventriloquist looks like that old woman in the picture and is useing her husband as a ventriloquist doll.
I think it's a lovely mom-n-babe pic, and with apologies for what I'm about to say...
puppetmasters unite-- anyone see "cheney's law" on pbs last night? The situation would likely be less grim if our fun-loving-if-slightly-dribble-spotted grande dame were in charge of things. shoot.
That's so not cool of Captain Kangaroo to claw his mother's face to a bloody pulp.
I tell ya, all those "nice" children's TV show hosts are the creepiest of the creepy, and look at the situations in which they tend to end up. Fred Rogers? Pee Wee Herman (yeah, yeah, meant more for adults, whatever), Barney (if that dude isn't a big purple sack of cocaine, then my name ain't Flargy, Esq.)
way more interested in a German hamlet. I'm sure everyone dies.
Awesome!!! A ventriloquist and a geriatric dummy :D lol jk Thats what it looks like though hmmmm
Redrum?
Or is she cradling the lifeless corpse of Jack Palance?
Sorry. Mr K? "irregardless"? No.
This picture is really creep. almost as if the old lady killed the old man or is going crazy and thinks he's still alive but really he's dead. seems like a picture u'd see in a horror movie such as dead silince like Kids in the hall said.
he looks dead...
This actually kind of reminds me of the movie Skeleton Key with Kate Hudson, ya know Voodoo and stuff controlling that old guy. In his eyes he is screaming "HELP ME!!!!"
lol Good Movie! I liked it!
One word... Taxidermy.
It makes me sad that this was found in the garbage. I feel the same way when I see frames at the thrift store that still have pictures in them. I think that the photos were once priceless treasures to somebody, that the people in photos once mattered and they were loved--they pass on and the memories of them become worthless garbage.
They are both women...anyone can see that. Probably sisters, 5 years apart, give or take. My older sis is 5 years older than I. I'm sure as you age, it's more obvious. Whatever the case, they could be living together, looking after each other. My mom's Aunts', my Grandmother's sisters' lived together their whole lives. Their names were Olive and Eunice. Both looked after each other, only 3 years apart, their were 5 sisters' but these 2 were the only ones who did not marry and have kids. They both lived to be ripe!! Olive was 89, and Eunice was 94. Best Great Aunties ever!!
It's a great photo. My grandma is in a nursing home - which I'm not thrilled about though it is one of the 'good ones' - and we have lots of photos of her posing with her friends who come to visit. I love those photos. My grandma is 89. I am freaking 36 years old and still have my grandma - how cool is that? We talk every single day. I don't know what I would do without her.
Anyway, maybe whoever threw the copy of Hamlet away didn't realize that this photo was in the book? They'd used the photo as a placemarker after all...
I love that the finder has this photo framed on her wall. It gives them back their dignity.
I'm with you, terrieissovery, i feel badly about thrift store photo albums and frames with pics in them. My sister has a few old strangers framed, and on her family wall.
The sitting down person has on a woman's buttoned blouse and an earring. I think the fact that they are so much older, sitting (in a wheelchair?), and the standing person is so much younger and vibrant, smiling and alert, would make it a mother/daughter picture- not a male/female picture.
Either way, it's a pretty scary picture w/ the sitting down person making that face, and the red bleeding over them. It looks like the standing up person killed them and is very pleased with their work, judging by their smile.
aww this makes me want to pinch their cheeks
i love it
I don't think the woman on the left is dying.. I think she's just sneezing. My grandmother used to do that too, we would get ready to take a picture at a wedding or something and she'd sneeze so all we got were pictures like this one...
That picture sends shivers down my spine. It's very sad. And the red lines beside the old lady makes me dream that she died in a extremely violent way.
She totally just ate that guy's brains. Which also explains his expression.
Katie is right! I likr to think that they are lesbians from 60 years ago... I think it would be great, because it was probably REALLY tough for lesbians in that time. It would be nice to believe that they made it through all kinds of rough patches to still be in love and ancient and have a picture together. But its probably just the happy lady's mother or something.
I don't see anything sad, except the lady on the left is suffering from some type of disability.
Things like that happen when you are blessed with enough years that you're allowed to grow old.
These ladies seem happy and content with themselves.
Why do you want to turn them into some creepy, brain eating, ventriloquist act?
These are too old dames doing the best they can, and making the most of the situation...hope all of you are doing as well when you get to be old!
the whole idea of this hanging on someones wall scares the shit out of me.
Ok... Yeah I agree with atta gurl. Most likely its a daughter who comes into a nursing home and takes care of her mother and does everything she can for her, but then maybe the picture is just for show *shrugs* I worked in a nursing home once, sad sad place, not a lot of families care after you get all wrinkly :( sad
There's nothing in this picture that implies the person on the left is happy and content, you just can't tell that. She could have had a huge stroke and now isn't really thinking anything at all but just staring at the wall. I don't want to be blessed with that.
You framed this scary-ass picture and hung it on your wall????
I'd hate to see what's going on beyond the borders.
Looks like two skin-walkers to me.
Brrrrh!!
I do hope someone eats my brains when I get to that age, because I certainly don't want to be paraded around in a wheelchair. I don't think there's much beauty in being a prisoner in your own broken down body. All set.
I have a wallet-sized photo of an elderly couple embracing each other that I found in a drivers education book when I was fifteen. I've been carrying it in my wallet since high school .
Scan it and send it to Found, sugarmagnolia! We wanna see it!
how odd that so many comments on here reflect a terrorized ageism of older people. as an age-ing baby boomer i find it amusing that these delightful older women are so terrifying to so many. get ready for the silver tsunami...as baby boomers we are going to be the largest demographic group in the united states. age? relax. its fun. and guess what. you will all get old. the women on here are delightful and could give anyone a run for their money. ever heard of grannyd? google her name. she can kick anyones butt on here. namaste.
Yay, Marianne! We are the future!!
Heh heh heh.
SAGA-louts rule!
I'm Fifty! Fifty Years Old!
Our society has totally corrupted the way young people view of the old. We've tried to fight aging so hard, it's now viewed as the enemy, and the elderly as losers in this battle! Older people used to be looked up to and admired...now they are considered weird and creepy-THIS IS SO WRONG!!!
My Grandmother is a stroke victim, and suffers for severe aphasia, and is wheelchair bound. Yes, she is a prisioner on her aged body, but we PROUDLY parade her around EVERYWHERE, and she loves it!
Just because she can't commuicate as she once did, or move with the grace she once had, doesn't mean that she is any less a person. She still has thoughts, feelings and emotions...as these two ladies clearly do!
I am sure these are both women.
does anyone remember in "waterworld" when they made the dead bodies into puppets with fishooks in their skins? i got reminded of that while reading all of your puppet comments. i think they did that in "saw" too.
OMG! if they are both women maybe they are secret lovers like in that cold case episode!
Attagurl, I'm not saying you should be ashamed of the elderly. I'm just saying that when I get to that point I'd like to die, or have my brains eaten. Maybe your grandmother doesn't feel that way, and kudos to her for that. I think I'm valid in having my own personal preference on where I'd like to be when I'm really old. When I can't go to the bathroom on my own anymore, I'm all set and ready to go. Personal preference.
9! 9 creepys.... Oh no!!!! A picture of an old couple - the wife smiling, the husband caught mid conversation!!! Oh no!!!! Duct tape the windows!!!!
...or the second wife, old lesbian couple, whatever.
@Creepy Counter! Ha Ha! do you do that all the time? You should.
So.. 9 out of 75 posts. (I am not counting your two posts, Creepy Counter.) If my math is correct, that makes the find 8.333% creepy.
I don't think the one standing is a woman. I think it's Davy Jones from the Monkees.
Gramma Nazi:
From Dictionary.com...
"Irregardless is considered nonstandard because of the two negative elements ir- and -less. It was probably formed on the analogy of such words as irrespective, irrelevant, and irreparable. Those who use it, including on occasion educated speakers, may do so from a desire to add emphasis. Irregardless first appeared in the early 20th century and was perhaps popularized by its use in a comic radio program of the 1930s."
The fact that there are 9 people (or 6 people and a couple were wrote creepy twice) who are frightened of a picture of happy old people is a sign of the times.
I hope you're not including my "creepy" in your count. If you are, go back and read my post again, this time with your humor hat on.
former nazis.
totally.
It scares me. =[ She looks psychotic and he looks in pain.
What's funny is that the finder had this framed on her wall and told people it was her grandparents all those years and never realized it was two women.
Mr. K, what's your point in posting that? Is that in defense of your word usage?
I'm not so sure that you read and fully understood the explanations offered by dictionary.com
Non standard pretty much means "don't use it."
Wanting to use a bigger word for that extra special <<kapow>> emphasis is understandable. But that word is not a good choice. It makes the people around you snicker quietly to themselves.
woman-"i just broke my husband's legs with my walker and it only took me a minute. lemme get you a cookie and some milk."
man-"ooooh my god, my leeeeegs!"
woman-"just smile for the picture dear, we'll send a copy to the kids."
'regardless' is a word.
'irrespective' is a word.
'irregardless' is NOT a word.
Sounds like a Sam Goldwyn-ism (or a Bush-ism) -- i.e. using it demonstrates that either you don't have full command of English as your first language, or you are parroting a non-word you picked up from some radio comedy progamme (or stoopid President) without knowing what it means or realising it isn't really a word.
So there. Phooey.
(Us old folks have gotta fight to defend our language!!)
An old couple having a photo taken is fine, but when one of them is clearly not well, it's just creepy. Plus, it was found in a German translation of "Hamlet." I think it's a clue. Or a cry for help.
maybe she just wasn't feeling very photogenic.
man, if every bad picture of me leaked into random places across the world, people would assume so many things.
who knows.
the lady standing up is totally the old woman from the movie "Duplex."
i don't find it creepy, but the look on the man's (?) face makes me very sad. he does look like he's in bad pain, and i just wish i could help him. the lady looks like a really sweet person. i smile at people all the time, and most people don't smile (except for the standard polite, false smile) back, they just nod at you or wave. she looks like she would smile back.
blah, blah, blah. I actually only like this photo because of the way the stripes on the collar and the light glare exert their force to crop the woman on the right's face into a smaller photo.
Übermenchen who survived in a Berlin bunker all this time? The German version of ‘Blast from the past’?
Oh yes... These are old people all right. If they stuck their old fingers in my mouth, I would most definitely vomit... !
Also- this brings a new horrifying twist to the automatic belief that lesbianism is hot! BLEH!