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March 19, 2006 |
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Because I Hired a Kid to Watch After You
FOUND by Azalia Orner
in Seattle, Washington
Early signs of a stalker....?
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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...
This is one of my favorite finds ever. It's interesting how the edging and printing on the postcard looks vintage, yet the postage stamp is a fairly recent one. Perhaps our writer is a lovelorn postcard collector?
ok. i'm moving off this island. creepy.
What I find odd is how the postcard has a stamp, but no address.
Whoa, I use to live in Marysville. I'm just glad my name isn't Chloe. WEIRD! It's an awesome find though!
By the looks of the handwritting it looks like a little kid wrote it. I would say that it was sweet of the kid to write to his (I'm guessing) ex girlfriend Cloe. I find it kind of weird that he wrote 'If you don't then somebody else is reading this letter', because I highly doubt that Cloe even read this. But it's kind of creepy that he says that he has someone looking after her. The left side is sweet, but the right side is weird. I could imagine him wearing a shirt that says 'I stalk because I care'. I wonder where the next letter is...
I actually laughed out loud when I read this. I've had several instances when I was given letters like this from what some like to call "gentle stalkers". I like to imagine that this is a little kid who had a "girlfriend" that, after she moved away, he didn't talk to anymore and, to make it up, he made it seem like he really was watching over her the whole time with his imaginary friend in Washington.
I hope she read this at one point. Chloe needs to know he still cares.
what really creeps me out about this is that he refuses to say his name. He says "your boyfriend from hawaii, you know who!" and at the end he doesn't sign it, but instead says "i will tell you my name on the next letter." thats creepy, like she doesn't know his name... and if he doesn't really have someone watching her then how does he know she's moving? there's just something very off about the whole thing.
I would say the author is around 12 or 13. Haha. Im curious what the picture on the back of the postcard is.
this is SO creepy! The post card had never been mailed and I wonder if the "boyfriend" ever even thought of mailing it. considering there is no address. I hope Chole is ok. This guys sounds dangerous!
Maybe the boyfriend put this in an envelope and mailed it to "the kid watchin out" for Chloe and he hand delivered it to her mail box. The stamp was added so Chloe would think it was mailed directly to her. I think Chloe should move far, far away while keeping watch over her sholder for a sinister kid bearing cryptic postcards!
This is creepy. Poor Chole.
run, chloe, run for your life!!!!
Devin,
It looks like he actually wrote "I'll tell you my html on my next letter." It sounds to me like they met on the internet. Maybe Cloe just likes him for his code.
I had assumed that good ole Chloe is trying to convince the kiddies at school that "See, I told you! I *do* have a boyfriend. I just got a postcard from him, see? No...you can't meet him. He lives in Hawaii."
Umm, this is creepy to the max! Especially the last part where the stalker states "I'll tell you my name on the next letter!" Obviously, Cloe doesn't even KNOW this kid!
Our current hysteria about "stalkers" will seem embarrassingly stupid in another ten years. Fortunately, it's not illegal to be passionate about or obsessed with someone you love, whether that love is returned or not. A fair percentage of great literature (and popular music) is based on such obsession.
But we're all told that obsession leads to stalking and that stalking leads to physical threats and inevitable violence. But we're not told that that happens perhaps one time in a thousand or less. The rest of the consumed are harmless romantics.
We should be so lucky as to be loved so well.
(Ten bucks says "Midlife Crisis" is a stalker.)
Actually it's ok, I'm obessed with someone myself...
But I didn't HIRE someone to WATCH them, and I don't follow them to their house. And I don't call myself their GIRLFRIEND.
Yeah...
This postcard WOULD be considered something written by a stalker.
Thanks, Jessica. :-)
Stalking by proxy. That's a new one on me.
Midlife Crisis sounds like a guy I semi-know named Darren : /
man y'all are harsh. i feel ya, Midlife Crisis.
My comment was all in good fun. =P
The stamp is not canceled. The young girl went to Hawaii on vacation with her family. When she returned she told her friends she had a boyfriend in Hawaii. When her friends got suspicion that the boyfriend was not real, she found a blank Hawaii post card (maybe she bought it while she was there or because of the vintage look of the card bought it in a used book store)wrote the note on it ( neglecting to put on her address) and showed it to her friends as proof.
the person who submitted this didnt even say where they found it. lame sauce.
Chloe never should have put out......
Tiny Canadian - the person who found it is from Washington though. I reckon Internet Detective is right. Chloe wrote it herself to trick her friends.
rightfully so, it says they are from seattle, but nothing says exactly where they found it.
ha. nevermind im a douche. i actually read it and it does. whoops.
i think chloe wrote it so she could show her friends that she DOES TOO have a boyfriend in hawaii!
Wow... That is creepy.
Yeah, see? I do have a boyfriend. And his name is George! George...... Glass!
this was cute on the left side, and then it got increasingly scary.
i enjoyed shannon's explanation. sounds like something a majority of nine year old girls would do.
Creepsville!!!
Okay. If the writer had really "hired a stalker to watch after her" who had "lived in Hawaii but now he lives in Washington" [right hand collum], he would not have said "Choloe, you live in Washington. If you don't, then someone else..." [left hand collum]. How could you hire a vicarious stalker substitute for someone who you don't even know for sure what state they're in? that's one mystery. other theory: the address is on the other side of the post card. ??
omg my name is chloe creepy...my friend printed this for me a couple weeks ago...i went to hawaii this summer. so she thought i was being stalked haha
i'm the one who found this postcard. 5 years ago i was visiting an aunt in seattle. she took us to see the house she had just bought. this postcard was sitting in one of the hedges in the front yard. i thought it was cute until i read the extremely creepy, and somewhat disturbing, right side...
Having studied graphoanalysis and currently volunteering with a shelter for victims of domestic abuse, this card is disturbing. The handwriting reflects confusion and lack of fluid thought. The content is grounds for a restraining order.
this is too creepy. i moved to washington (five mins. north of marysville) with my husband last year, right before my ex fiance moved to hawaii.
There must have been an address somewhere because it was found in Seattle WA, which is relatively close to marysville esp. compared to Hawaii...
Oh, and...it's too late (early) for this spam protection question...45 divided by 3?? I don't know...calculator?...
whoa. i live in marysville.
I like how on the far right hand bottom corner, it says : "P.S. I will tell you my name on the next." Yeah. I'm sorry, this isn't cute. this is creepy. I hope this kid doesn't have issues later on. (especially since Chloe probably didn't read this.)
I snickered at the card.
I giggled at "Stalking by Proxy"
BUT I ROTFLMAO @ George Glass. OMG - that was too funny!!
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I think this card was written by Chloe, and she used a post card she found in her mama's or granny's things.
This is innocent childhood stuff. Hardly creepy or stalkerish. Kids can come up with some bizarre stuff but this kid doesnt appear (to me) to be old enough to carry out any sort of dangerous action against Chloe. Its cute to me.
I think I know this Chloe. I live in Marysville, and the girl I'm thinking of is Hawaiian. She would have only been a sophomore in high school at this point.
Hahahahahaha
I like how he reminds her she has a boyfriend. In Hawaii, no less.
I don't think it's a stalker. Even Hallmark sells cards from "a secret admirer". It's probably a boy who lives right near Chloe, and likes her, and is trying to do something romantic and mysterious. Somebody mentioned the stamp was a ploy to throw Chloe off the right track. The boy probably put the postcard in the mailbox himself. (Or maybe in the bushes where it was found, after Chloe moved to Marysville?)