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November 04, 2008 |
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Continued Thursday
FOUND by Caitlin D
in Plano, Texas
I found this in Best Buy. At first I thought it was written by a middle schooler but was later informed it is in fact by a high school student. Interesting... I mainly enjoy the fact that it had to be continued!
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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...
aww a pregnant teen girl wrote to the baby she is carrying and she can't wait to see it! Now that is just sweet.
though i can't believe a teacher tried to give her detention for her shirt not being tucked in; for real, pretty much, omg, that is just gay.
Give the girl a break, she's preggers, of course her shirt will come untucked and her tummy will be poking out from time to time...
I'm thinking it is a teen girl with a crush on an 'older' boy. That's about as far as I can get with this without puking. I am so glad I'm not a teenager, required to hang out with teenagers, living near a teenager, etc
This find...pretty much it was gay.
I do love the texty shorthand of modern puppy love letters, though. Artsy yet classless...maybe it wasn't that gay OMG I-D-K.
I'm glad to see this is a strong enough relationship to handle the pressures of shirt-tucking.
MVAH??!
I need a translation.
The rest is pretty much gay.
Getting detention for not having a badge? What kind of badge? Is it something like a bathroom pass?
And does she plan on giving this letter to baby even after she has just seen him? Strange
@feeling in coherent
*muah* the sound of a kiss
@ Narnian
My high school had ID badges that doubled as library cards and cafeteria debit cards. If you didn't have yours you would get written up. After Colombine a lot of public schools came up with a lot of crazy ideas about security.
People, people! Obviously a private school, perhaps boarding school but probably not in Plano TX. I'd say parochial. Where they do have strict rules about shirts tucked in and other grooming, and where you would wear a badge, and possibly a necktie for boys and girls both, as they do in England. Only in private school could you get detention for arguing with a teacher...in public schools, even in my day, it was expected for an adolescent to argue with any remonstrance. "What? What'd I do? What? I didn't do nothin."
The reference to "baby" coming to the school also supports the boarding school weekend-visiting theory.
I don't think she ever expects it to be seen by 'baby'. It's a sort of journal entry written to a real person who she's pretending is her boyfriend.
@ Maddy: nice visual. Was she happy she saw the ultrasound image when the clinic on wheels came to school?
I was thinking private school as well, and was also nauseated by the note. It's good to have lived through that phase!
I wonder who her love interest is: UPS guy, cafeteria worker, crossing guard, high school dropout...
Dear Muffy -
OMG! Wht is the wrld cming 2 whn evrything starts dising8ing 2 shrthnd? WTF... U R the dmbst twt evr. Lts brkup b4 it's 2 late. Ur needing me 2 come 2 c u all the time @ that oppressive military schl is inrfering wth my job @ Jiffy Lube.
Babar
Beep beep, beep beep, yeah!
Very reminiscent of a thousand letters I received back in the stone ages of high school. The texting shorthand is funny. What is there to hate about silly kids all stupid in love with nothing to say. " I want a big hug and a kiss" How sweet and innocent. However I could be a bitter found commenter and tear it apart but today i will refrain, and choose to believe.
I'll also refrain from making snide remarks about the texty shorthand and adolescent idea of love... I'll just say she seems very happy.
Why would a teacher threaten someone with detention for having her "shift nut tucked in"? Or for "not having my boolge"? Must be a gay thing, I guess.
There is nothing ruining the English language quite like the incessant use of then phrases "pretty much", "so basically", and "I know, right?".
This note makes me mad.
@baby basil
Here in "Dixieland" we have a countywide dress for kids in public school, K-12. They call it standard school attire, not a uniform. Pants, shorts, skirts, etc...must be navy blue, black or any shade of khaki. Cargo pants and denim jeans of any color are not permissible. All shirts must have short or long sleeves and must have a collar, and can be white or navy -- or each school select 2-3 additional colors students may wear. Clothes must be proper fitting, and must be tucked in and worn with a belt if the garment has belt loops. In addition, all middle schools and high school students are required to carry an ID badge at all times.
People really dreaded it when the new rules went into effect last year, but now they've adjusted. Personally, it's done away with many arguments that started with "Oh no, you will NOT wear THAT to school!!!"
Round these parts, a tucked-in shirt actually IS more gay than an un-tucked one.
Why the gay-bashing today? Unless, of course, we are discussing HAPPY people.
Unless this was written by Prince, whoever wrote it needs to have her hands thoroughly wrapped in duct tape until she learns how to write entire words.
That's right! Screw the happy people! That is so gay!
I concur with Cotton in Dixieland about standardized dress codes in public schools. I live in the same general North Texas area as Plano. In our public school district, only one campus (middle school grades 6-8) has adopted this dress code. Polo shirts in school colors tucked in, pants MUST have belt loops and belts must be worn, etc.
I <3 teens!
Although the overall effect of the note is nausea, I really like the big "BABY" and hearts at the top. It's cute.
I imagine "baby" is a leather-wearin' motorcycle ridin' thug whom note writer's forbidden to see.
I like how on the 19th, she forgets about the textspeak and writes like a normal human being.
*muwaah!*
i wish i meant the wond to somebody.
so lyk, omg, idk. i dnt hv nethng 2 say xcpt itz, lyk, fkn awsm 2 b n luv!
I'm not surprised about the strict dress codes and name badges at a public high school. Plano is huge and the high school is a monstrosity! The dress codes are to cut down on gang violence and the name badges are for security. I went to a much smaller high school and still dealt with the same things. Now I teach at an even smaller school and some of the dress code rules are so strange but they all have to do with gangs.
And remember what Em taught us yesterday on her Christmas list: drawing an open heart next to something means "I extremely want".
So Baby is doubly extremely wanted. Unless one negates the other, I'm not sure about that part.
@Feeling in coherent:
MVAH is the TRVE KVLT METAL onomatapeoia for a kiss.
Example:
SATAN GIVES ME THE SWEET KISS OF DEATH! MVAH! CHRISTIANS ARE LIKE, OMG, I-D-K, GAY!
This needs to be a song.
@Feeling in coherent:
I hope you know that you just made me laugh so hard that, somehow, I acutally sneezed.
As for the note, and for everyone going on about teh gay, please be aware that when you are calling something "gay" you are likening that something to Sir Ian McKellen and Oscar Wilde, and it is therefore NOT possible to use the word as an insult without revealing yourself as a hopeless Philistine.
I only WISH I were that gay. Awesome. Whatever.
I'm bisexual. Guess I have to settle for being just sort-of cool.
Maybe the badge she's supposed to be wearing is a big scarlet "A" ?
Pastor Z: The "A" stands for Adultery. I highly doubt a teenager is committing adultery... unless of course her "baby" is a grown, married man, in which case I'm disturbed. More than likely this was meant to be a note you'd stick into someone's locker, so I'm assuming it's intended for someone in the same age group.
Also, I don't know about anyone else, but back when I attended high school the dress code was no skin showing around the waist. Period. I've heard it differs from school to school- some schools allow up the navel I've heard.
I will say more than anything, that even though you're hating on this poor teenager, we were ALL like this at one point. Well, maybe not quite this nauseating, but I wrote and received my fair share of these types of letters.
Gee wizsicles. I thought the letters I used to write when I was younger were cheese-tastic, but at least I spelled out the words!
However, even now some of my letters have "to be continued" in them in some places. I tend to write my boyfriend (who lives out of state and that I only get to see about once a month or so) lengthy letters. He says he likes to read them.
On an entirely different note:
Ew, the spam protection is 28 times 15. I can't do math like that in my head! [whips out calculator] :D
Nobody puts baby in corner.
MVAH=Nasty ASS
Please excuse me while I go vomit.
"Baby, I love you SOOOOOOO much. Not enough to invest the time required write out all the letters for 'I Don't Know', 'to', 'you' and 'without'. I mean, I'm already struggling to find the necessary moments in the day to tuck in my shirt and put on my badge! But, I love you in my own shorthand teenspeak way."
Oh, and- "Badges? We don't need no stinking badges."
This makes me want to harm my generation and the one below me. Don't make me go on a "This world is decaying at an alarming rate" rant.
I could go on and on about the illiteracy of this Find, but since others have already 'bitched' enough, I'll let the former Secretary General of the U.N., Kofi Annan, speak for me:
" Literacy unlocks the door to learning throughout life, it is essential to development and health and opens the way for democratic participation and active citizenship."
obviously he took her virginity. She thinks she loves him, he's looking for an out.
lawndude, you've changed my perspective. thanks!
@ Coco
I know, right?!
ps - my spam protection was "what month comes before june?" so basically i'm pretty much glad it wasn't math...
Wow. A month and a half later I see that this made it on here! How lame that I'm this bored.
And to address the dress code debate, if anyone ever reads this, Plano has 3 Senior High Schools (11th-12th), and 5 High Schools (9th-10th). None of these schools have a dress code, and rarely enforce badge policies.
There are many private schools in and around the area though that do enforce dress code and I'm sure they enforce the carrying of badges. The is a new private high school called John Paul II, that's my best guess. Yay no one ever reading this!!