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October 13, 2008 |
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Drama
FOUND by Caryn
in Warrenville, Illinois
Found on the floor of Lifetime Fitness.
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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...
Show of hands: who thinks this guy has a chance of staying with his 'Baby'?
(sound of crickets)
Crappy, punctuation aside :)
Somehow the handwriting says "female", but it reads like something a (desperate) male would write.
And yes, I'd say that "Baby" doesn't care any more about the author than s/he did about the note.
I hope "Baby" left "Author"
...Spam protection: What is the opposite of bad?
the subtext being;
"I know saying I love you doesn't fix everything; but I'm hoping it actually WILL fix everything"
"I so much want you in my life; even though I don't act like it(i.e, takes "baby" for granted)"
"you've but up with my drama up till now; that's why I "love" you, because you put up with my drama"
"and implied promise that the Author will still want Baby around even when Author makes it through their drama(a promise is rarely kept in a relationship like that)"
I agree, the hand writing did strike me as female. but it doesn't really mater, it's the type of self interested sentiment that can and does come from either gender.
what counts is that Baby needs to run for the hills, and find someone who likes them for more then the amount of crap they will take.
{or I'm COMPLETELY interpreting the find wrong. but hey, that's the fun of Found)
*"a promise THAT is rarely...."
How can the writer use the word "there" correctly, then misuse it the last time? Baby is right to leave this grammatically challenged Drama Queen (or King)?
The mixture of capital and small letters makes me nervous.
Many times in the past I could have been the writer of this note! I used to say: "I love you...that doesn't help, but it's true." I went through a lot of trauma in my life and "Baby" stood by me and still does. I am so glad and grateful because now that I've climbed out on the other side, I can give a little back. I know it will never be enough, but my "Baby" doesn't seem to mind.
Thank God for growth and change, and for a Baby to be there while some of us imperfect beings do it.
@elaine:
true, it is a weird font they use: "WhEn thEiR is drAmA no moRE".
Ah, gotta love the permanent misuse of there, their, it's, its and so forth.
But maybe it's just because I'm not a native english speaker that I (have to) pay more attention to these.
@ Monkey:
Not only is such a promise rarely (if ever) kept, it's also true that this author will *never* be drama-free. Trust me, I dated her - or one of her clones.
You can walk away from a treadmill, but it cannot walk away from you, baby.
the found notes frequently have a desperate ring to them; as if the desperate notes are more frequently chucked on the ground. coincidence? i think not.
@ man behind the curtain: that's a great observation. I wonder if Baby theatrically dismissed the note, or just tried to toss it in the laundry bin with his/her sweaty towel.
@mouth: I was wondering if someone was going to put the location in play- very funny, yet deep, quote.
My ex was a drama queen who was obsessed with going to the gym. So much so that there were many days we didn't sit down to dinner until 10:00pm. Even when we went on vacation, the first thing she'd do is find some place to work out, and she expected me to join her. Whenever I brought up that I wasn't into the whole workout scene, she'd say, "Don't you care about your weight? I expect you to want more out of life than to just be fat and happy!"
After eleven years, I realized I was neither.
Now, remarried with two beautiful girls, I'm not too fat, but I AM happy.
Is it even possible to be a reformed drama queen?
It's the unsmiley at the end that gets me.
One should never use emoticons in desperate letters.
This note is nauseating.
I hate when people see themselves being surrounded by drama--they're just trying to paly the victim.
An informative website that seems to apply to this Find, from http://www.zurinstitute.com/victimhood.html
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The victim's basic stance is that he or she:
Is not responsible for what happened.
Is always morally right.
Is not accountable.
Is forever entitled to sympathy.
Is justified in feeling moral indignation for being wronged.
Pardon my typos.
ugh...paying for it now. Too early for this kind of drama.
Baby...Baby...Dirty Dancing? "No one puts Baby in a corner."
(totally irrelevant)
Drama-no-more. It sounds like a room spray, for when you need to clear the air.
I feel kind of bad for this person, since I've toured the land of Suck and Drama more than once, and I am deeply grateful for the people who dragged my sorry, undeserving ass out of the fire.
What bothers me about it is the way it's phrased: "You've been there for me through the neverending suck, and I want you to still be there for me when there is no more suck."
Umm, maybe you'd have better luck saying "I'd like to be there for YOU when there is no more suck."
Just a thought.
what is it about the word "baby" that just sounds so whiny and nauseating. I think maybe all of us on the anti-baby bandwagon have been called that by someone we grew to despise. Either way, if someone calls me that, its a deal breaker...i have never had success with someone who called me that, even once!
I was someone's baby once.
Then I grew up
Who wants to live in a world without drama?
Certainly not me or William Shakespeare.
I suppose I could do without Dramarama if I had to...
dear Recipient:
RUN AWAY!!!!!
Man behind the curtain : Maybe people just write more desperate notes than happy ones.
This is something much easier to write than to say (you don't have to see "Baby" judging you) - if there had been no drama the author would certainly be able to say I love you to Baby without any note...
ok, I'll admit - I am a reformed drama queen. I could have written this note at one time in my life, I'm sure I wrote some that were scarily similar. The writer (whom I personally believe to be female) knows that she caused a lot of the crap that is making him leave her right now, but she thrives on the drama, and the fact that he's leaving and she gets to beg him to stay is even more of the drama that feeds her (I just had a picture of a Drama Vampire...).
It is possible to reform, it took me much therapy, many self-help books, joining the army, and finding a man to be with who is the complete opposite of drama, to feel like i've really changed. Now I can't stand to be sucked into other people's drama, I just get annoyed with it all because it's usually self-created and needless.
and as for the find, I think that if Baby stays with he she has no hope for reform, personally or in this relationship. I hope for both their sakes he tossed her the way he tossed the note.
(she just likes the s-e-x.)
References to Dramarama doesn't fix everything, but...
I think this author just screwed up and or had way too much gossip and drama goin' on in her life. You know it's easy to get caught up in that spiral of crap.
Anyway, her 'baby' has had it up to his gonads with her drama queen moody blues and wants to seperate for a long while.
I think they'll get back together because of the SEX.
LITTLE QUEENIE got that spot on!
I got dozens of notes like this from my ex. I stayed around out of pity. I'm glad I learned how pointless that was. I hope "baby" learned a lot faster than I did that a person who writes these kinds of notes will never keep their promise.
The author is definately a girl...so is "Baby". There is no drama like girl/girl drama!
HAPPY THANKSGIVING to all the Canadian FOUND-HOUNDS!
Well baby, you almost had me convinced... but then you BLEW IT with the 3rd "there" ... so I'm dumping your ass and won't becoming back to this fitness center in this life time or any other...
Obviously, this wasn't Found outside Lifetime Mental & Emotional Fitness. I dated this chick 15 years ago, for two and a half years. There was some good, but it was far outweighed by the bad.
Okay, Lets get busy in the backseat said:
The author is definately a girl...so is "Baby". There is no drama like girl/girl drama!
and it was immediately followed by
LASH eating.. gobble-gobble!
There's some sickly fascinating humour in that for me.
@ Lolita in despair at having awoke too early
My first thought was "No one puts Baby in a corner". Geez, what an awful movie!
I blame my wife for subjecting me to such awful cinema. I love her immensely despite her bad taste in film.
@ Pastor Z in clothes that seem a bit snug
As one slightly overweight and happy guy to another, I say "Congratulations on your epiphany". I'm glad you found happiness. That's the best "Find". (or is it a gift?)
So, is the guy supposed just hang out, waiting for the day the drama is all over? Somehow I get the impression that is going to be a long, long wait. I feel kinda bad for the writer of the note. Desperation is an awful thing to experience.
Baby writes back: "Let's just be friends. Okay?"
@ Feeling in coherent
As I've said from the pulpit: Amen!
@Feeling in coherent: My kids love Dirty Dancing, and have commented many times that I resemble Jennifer Grey (before the nose job).
It really is an awful movie...in agreement about that.
people love drama..they watch it on t.v. and in movies and try to reenact it in their lives. The best way to avoid all of this is to KILL YOUR T.V.
And get a life.
jeesh.
what you said strikes me funny, Sammy Davis Jr Jr.. because for MANY people, the Computer has taken over that role once filled by the television. Seriously. Why do all the regular Found Hounds come here to the comment section, of not for the Drama of it all? (well, that, and for Flargy.)
Oh I've got a girl named
Drama lama, rama lama ding dong
She's everything to me
Drama lama, rama lama ding dong
I'll never set her free because she's mine, all mine
@DeLonghi--Don't forget Turbo, or Alan, or Pastor Z, or Farmer, or....I could go on and on.
Nope. Flargy.