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September 15, 2005 |
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It's Like Table Tennis
FOUND by Kelly Fuller
in Columbia
I was just sitting, waiting to get my passport info turned in, so I sat on the floor and was knitting. The note was stuck to my knitting back along with some dusty stuff... I thought it was very interesting... but who the hell is Stacie?
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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...
I really love how the author of this note, after careful consideration, decided that the seemingly passive-aggressive Sammy's mistreatment of Stacie was more akin to table tennis than to pinball. I love how all of the i's and the exclamation point are dotted with triangles, and the y at the end of "Sammy" and the n at the end of "Karen" both have been made into arrows. Substituting the "anarchy" symbol for the a in "Karen" was the coup de grace. In short, I am in love, although I doubt Karen will reciprocate, as she seems to be in love with Sammy. I wonder if she knows she's in love. Does it make her feel ashamed? Stacie would just be devastated.
Some questions:
(a) what's wrong with table tennis?
(b) might the ending be a reference to old-fashioned telegrams?
My question:
(1) What's wrong with writing in a straight line?
im glad she chose to cross out pinball. table tennis fits sooo much better.
(a)what's wrong with table tennis? answer: nothing, unless you're the ball.
I knew a Sammy she was bitchy
I knew a Karen She was bitch as well
I love how she signed her name. People are so naive about anarchy. Hehe he. It will not work.
Can't you just see Karen and Becky and Stacie and Sammy and the rest of the babysitters club together. Karen is the tough one. But right in the middle of writing "ping-pong," She like totally forgot, like, what she was totally like trying to say... so she crossed it off and put table tennis because it sounds so much more like "Muh-Chure"! anywayz!
write
on
the
lines.....
grrrr... i hate it when people write sideways... there's the same amount of room on the paper, no matter what the orientation of your writing is. drives me nuts.
Karen is a bad-ass, look at how she snuck the Anarchy symbol into her name.
Also, she crossed out "pinball" not "ping-pong" probably referring to how the conversations were very stop-and-go.
The "N" with the arrow is the international squatter symbol. Based on the mentality and maturity level of most "anarchist squatters" I've encountered, this bubbly-lettered middle school tripe could easily have been written by one of them.
lol anarchy a.
shes talking about the way people look back and forth at one another when they are in awkward situations - as if they are watching table tennis! so clever!
table tennis is definitely full of awkward silence. not like pinball, which is full of awkward noise.
You know what's wierd to me about this note? I grew up in Columbia SC and I had a friend in middle school named Karen whose handwriting was very similar to the author of this note. She had a friend named Sammy, too and this is exactly the kind of thing I could picture her saying/writing. She also fancied herself as something of a rebel and was a rocker chick and listened to hard core heavy metal. But, the strange part is that this was over 20 years ago. Maybe it's her bizzaro twin?
Monica,
Of course she couldn't write on the lines. She's a rebel! DUH!
What is with the Birthday/Anniversary business on the paper?Did she tear this out of her school planner??
Sam the Observant (and yes, I know it was over a year ago when you wrote this), I'm sure the "Stop!" at the end of the letter is Karen's direction to Sammy, not to an imaginary telegraph operator. She wants Sammy to stop being so damn bitchy and awkward to Stacie.
I agree, the table tennis thing is very clever!
sounds like the crazy rantings of a true anarchist. hardcore, Karen.
This note is funny, like 'pinball'.... NO NO it's more like 'tabletennis'.