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Uhh?
FOUND by Erin Kay
in Michigan
It was on the ground by a bus stop.
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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...
The written note make a little less sense than the Eleanor Roosevelt quote printed at the top. Aren't all children curious?
Wow. I would love to see the note/call/whatever that precipitated this.
Best I can come up with is something along the lines of, "Look baby, it's not you - it's me. It's like - well, it's like the box is shut, you know? I just need some time alone. Sorry."
And then proceeds to run off to the Netherlands.
Or something. Too late to be thinking.
"Uhh?" is right! I'm going to sleep now; maybe a dream will tell me what it means.
what if I were a bag, or maybe a vase ... a jug? some other container, would you feel something then?
I reckon they meant "if you were IN a box" ie. dead
um... trix is cereal, so imagine being in a box of fake-fruity sugary day-glo colored crunchy bits, being shaken by a small child who is convinced that you are the *prize*-
cereal that is pimped by a giant creepy pediophile rabbit.
Effie... You "reckon"? In Oxfordshire? Uhh?
I think you're right. The writer forgot the "In".
More Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes:
"If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor."
" You must do the things you think you cannot do."
" No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
"I once had a Rose named after me and was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall."
The giant cartoon rabbit's line was 'TRIX are for kids!'
Anyway. Here's the dream. We were on vacation at a condo resort on a lake. We took a boat out on the water and a giant storm caused us to go ashore at a remote island in the middle of this lake. It was steep and rugged and we were trying to survive the storm on this island. I looked down and saw some kind of a small creature or urchin out in the water. I looked more closely and saw that it was a little kid, about four years old. She had been abandoned there on the island and had been living in a CARDBOARD BOX. She couldn't speak and she was so wild that we could hardly tell she was human. When I picked her up, she clung to me and wouldn't let go. One of the other people with us said, "What are you doing? just leave her, she's been living here along, just leave her like you found her." I said, "No, we're taking her with us. I am not going to leave this child." When the storm was over, we took the boat back to our vacation condo. We were trying to reach the authorities to find out what we should do. I said, "I didn't want another child, but we're not going to abandon this little girl." And we ending up taking her home and raising her as our own.
The weird thing is that this was not my dream, but my husband's, which he recounted to me just a few minutes ago. The other weird thing is that he had not seen this find, nor did he know that I was hoping for a dream to help me explain it.
OMG, Clover! That dream is so weird!
I actually thought the word "trix" was "thx" ("thanks"). Like "fuckin thx or something" is a sarcastic "thanks a lot."
(The commercials said, "Silly Rabbit! Trix are for kids!" It wasn't the rabbit's line, he was always after the kids' cereal. I know you know that. Sorry, my life is reduced to this minutiae. xx)
Oh yeah, you're right Nightingale.. now I remember.. silly me! but was it "silly wabbit?" No maybe not.. I think that was Elmer Fudd, wasn't it? "Stupid Wabbit!"
I think that, at a child's birth, if a parent could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with a gift, that gift should be a cool mill.
@yeah, lumber mill or flour mill? or paint mill, like in Holland?
or wind mill?
@Clover: the coolest mill is $1,000,000.
And if I'm not mistaken, I believe Elmer Fudd called Bugs Bunny a "Wascally Wabbit."
8-)
"I am a rock, I am an island
And a rock feels no pain, and an island never cries.
Maybe it is the same for a box
As long as it's not a puppy mill. How about a pepper mill?
if I was a box, I would not feel.
Pepper makes me sneeze. Pass the salt, please.
if you were a lox right now, I'd be eating you with bagel and cream cheese, not fuckin Trix or something
'Kill the wabbit
Kill the wabbit
Kill the WAAbbit
Kill...!'
Bugs Bunny (to the tune of 'The Ride of the Valkyries'). Not that that has anything to do with anything.
I'm with Nightingale -- I thought 'fuckin thankx a lot'. Also thought 'If you were a box' had a sexual connotation.
Um. 'You've so messed up my response to sex that if I were having sex with you right now I wouldn't feel a thing'?
Er. Who knows.
Coincidence of the Day -- I have just (tonight) been working on an opera about Cinderella with a proper Fairy Godmother in it.
Glass slipper and Prince Charming and all (but no curiosity).
How does one fuck Trix?
I'm not a handwriting expert like most of you regulars, but don't you think this is most likely female writing? Makes it even more puzzling to me (but I'm easily puzzled).
The writing is to clear, the expression is so straightforward, and yet undecipherable (to me, anyway).
@ fooch,
my gf Nurse Trixie knows...(lovingly!)
Trix means just kidding. But I would think that telling somebody you wouldn't care if they were a box is not very nice or funny.
Isn't Trix from General Mills? That's kind of a cool Mill.
Fooch, pros f*ck trix all the time. sometimes they call 'em Johns.
Obviously the ramblings of a crank ho. "trix"? Maybe she's not talking about the cereal kids.
perhaps (she?) was over zealous with the x's. It would make a little more sense if that was a Y. If you were a boy right now?...
what kind of day planner counts how many days into the year it is and how many are left to go? that's just really strange to me.
I think instead of "box" it's meant to say "boy", she was just a bit overzealous with crossing the y. I think the girl broke her heart and she's wishing she had been a boy...
Many of the ones that I've seen.
@Terrie-Is-So-Very.. Still. It makes me laugh. "I don't care if you are a box or not." Not nice, but funny, sorry.
@ Chrome Toaster.. hey, another of your fantastic unexpected connections! Trix & General Mills!
If the writer of this note could see all the random stuff everyone has gotten out of it, he/she would be pretty astonished I bet. Rabbits, cartoons, dreams, children, prostitutes, cereal, homosexuality. Geeze. And, oh yeah, money, cuz ..OMG..!!! i just got it. Nightingale said it and i still didn't get it until just now. Cool mill. Duh.
I think it means box as in vag. Like the girlfriend was like "I am just a box to you and so we can't date because all you ever want to do is have sex and you don't care about my interests or beleifs." And the partner was like "If you were just a vagina to me, I wouldn't be all upset that you just dumped me, I would instead be pleased to never again have to hear you agonize about what your hamster is getting for it's birthday, but that is not the case. :( "
I don't think it's boy rather than box, look how the other "y"'s on the page are curled at the bottoms... still baffled though!
I think the writer left out the "in." and I do think it is "thnx." I see this note as a reply to someone who said something to the effect of "you should be thankful for all I've done for you, where would you be without me..." Maybe this was a mother/child dispute (making the quote at the top of the page rather ironic). The kid's reply is basically "you could be dead (in a box) and I wouldn't care. You want thanks, well fucking thanks or something."
If you're going to write a hateful note don't you think you should at least be literate about it? Otherwise the nastiness loses its punch. The recipient is just gonna scratch his head, or worse, laugh at your stupidity.
Did anyone notice the cool quote at the top of the page? I think my fairy godmother may have given me a double dose of curiousity.
@Air in the tires-- A financial calendar/day planner shows the days of the years like that. It has something to do with figuring out how much interest you will earn on your CD or pay on your loan by day X.....I'm looking at mine right now! However, nowadays most banks just have computer programs that do that kind of stuff for you, making these calendars pretty useless.
just me - good call on proofreading a hateful note. if someone gave me this note, i would probably say "fucking thanks, douchebag." or something.
Yes, Fooch, Lance is right. I do know a thing or too about this. But I don't kiss (or 'ahem' whatever) and tell.
Smoochie, smoochie to Lance-y Pants-y!
Lestamore in Portland, yeah, that's exactly the way my train of thought was going. Thanks for putting it so clearly!
Nurse Trixie, I'll burgle your box any night of the week. (Hey Lance, get outta there.)
Michelle, if you were a boy, you wouldn't be curled at the bottom either.
Jonathan: Come on by any time--just be sure to bring your big instrument. Ssshhh...don't tell Lance.
It looks like a note someone took while eavesdropping on someone else's conversation. Like it's half of a phone conversation...
"You are always so mean to me! How would you feel if I were dead?!"
"If you were in a box right now I wouldn't feel anything."
"See what I mean? You are heartless! After all I've done for you the least you could do is thank me!"
"Fucking Tha..."
And the phone dies. So it was Fuckin Thx or Something. Must have been a Sprint/Nextel phone. Fuckin Thx Sprint. You suck.
I think it means, I don't have time for your TRIX anymore...if you were in a box I would care.........
^^^^^^I wouldn't care^^^^^^^^
http://foundmagazine.com/find/550 That Box
http://foundmagazine.com/find/213 Invisible Box
I wouldn't care if I were a box right now, as long as I'm NOT that premonition box!!
And I wouldn't care if I were IN a box right now.. as longas it's not that invisible box.
If you were a box (of cereal) right now, I wouldn't feel anything (towards wanting to eat you, unless you were a box of) fuckin trix or something.