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July 22, 2008 |
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Memory Problems?
FOUND by Sarah Miller
in Denver Colorado
All I can say is, "Good luck!"
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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 don't really get this..the customer paid cash for a hauler to come pick something up... and why does the truck need to know about the customer's scholastic or academic wants and needs?
It's a conspiracy maaaaannnnnn....
I'm sorry, sir; what were you looking for?
maybe the customer turned to zen buddhism and got all his mundane distractions (bed, tables, cupboard etc.) picked up from his pad to create space for his meditations, forgetting all, finding perfection in emptyness - explaining his decision on the slip of the hauler in the shape of a plain statement.
Paying $16.00 cash for a "pickup" ... well, it might be better if you don't remember anything that happened after that. You'll feel better about yourself in the morning.
I worked in that field of study, but I forgot what it was. And I could never find the office anyway.
I'm sorry, what was the question? and who are you?
I recommend theology.
Well, that's a Georgia Pacific emblem on the invoice. 2 x 4's at a buck a piece? Could be since this piece of paper is almost 12 years old.
Politics, maybe?
it's dated one year after Jerry Garcia died. Hmm.
As for field of study that doesn't require you to remember anything- you could be a participant in testing for pharmeceutical companies.
You could be a crockpot kitchen cook "fix it and forget it"
You could be an artist.. create something and just.. LET it Go.
Happy Tom Robbins' Birthday.. I'm off t scatter books and rocks throughout the land.
I had suspicions, but that last post clued me in. I know who you are, DeLonghi... clever disguise.
Well, fill the rest of us in, Al!
Things we know:
It's a receipt for 16 items costing $1 each, picked up by a customer. The customer paid cash. The odd statement about a field of study is apparently typed onto the receipt by a store employee.
Things we don't know:
What company's receipt is this?
What was being picked up?
Why was there no sales tax if this was Colorado?
Is it the salesperson or the customer who doesn't want to remember anything?
Why would they write about a field of study on a store receipt?
Could it be the title of a book?
What were the items that cost $1 each?
Where in Denver did Sarah Miller find this?
What were the circumstances of the find?
Did she find it in 1996 and keep it all this time?
Maybe it's a company that provides a little creativity space on the invoice for their employees to type in something like a "Joke of the Day." That would be cool. Or maybe it was generated and changed each day by management. Great marketing idea. People would go there to buy stuff, just to see what the joke was.
I know nothing. If I knew I forgot. Governor who?
Very mysterious. I like this find much better than the crazy kids.
Does the red arrow-thingy provide any clues as to the company?
I will not, mlm. You must use your own powers of deduction, just like i did. Clever, that DeLonghi guy.
"I am looking for a field of study that doesn't require me to remember anything."
I just watched the movie Memento for the very first time. Is there a connection here?
Clover, it's 1 item sold for $16.
I'd like to purchase an argument...
Druid up there said it's the Georgia Pacific Emblem, but a google image search doesn't come up with that as a company logo. It's not Weyerhauser, either. It does almost look like the Boise Cascade logo, but on its side..
And then I have to ask myself, once again.. WHY? Why does it MATTER??
I'm looking for a field to study where I can watch the grass grow and forget the world.
Hmm. This is my take. A person, say, a student looking into what he/she wants to major in at school, decides to send away for some pamphlets that would give him more information about fields of study. Since he/she is not quite specific in what he/she wants besides the field of study not requiring him/her to remember anything, the school sends out 16 brochures. I wonder what the registrar thought those 16 fields were?
For a second there I thought I went to PostSecret instead of Found. A very random confession on a receipt... Who knows.
You are right correct in g. I cannot read receipts, invoices, tax forms, bank statements, or anything else having to do with numbers. Well, I can, but it's so much work!
I also wonder what this logo is. GP doesn't match. It looks like an airplane logo. Or a flower wire service. Something to indicate fast delivery. It looks like the feather end of an arrow.
I love this find. It makes me think of my oldest son when he was 10. An excellent athelete, when asked what he wanted to study in college, he said "Basketball." I told him he could play basketball, but he still had to take classes. Shocked, he said "Like in school?"
Al Simon: I was on to DeLonghi a couple of days ago. I thought it was clever as well. And so is Al Simon. But do you know who I am?
Become a religious leader. Make things up as you go along, and you wont need to worry about being contradictory. Most are anyway.
Plus, people who question you will be "evil".
Hmmm, when you Google the phrase "looking for a field of study that doesn't" the only result is THIS page.
Like Google isn't remembering anything else.
Maybe the field being sought is recursive mnemonics.
I'm starting to think the that the customer didn't actually buy anything for $16. I think he was charged $16 to have something picked up at his house or business. It was a hauling charge.
Well, chit. Yes, it isn't GP but I can't remember what it is. This is nag me until I think of it. It's something very butch...but what? bah!
Twilight, I think I know of whom you speak.
Perhaps it is secret code for some type of illicit pick up!! But, for $16? Maybe the dollar amount is code as well!
I'm thinking that the customer who paid $16 for the pickup was actually the finder. She had kept it all these years because of the funny part. Maybe she ran across it again while cleaning out her file cabinets.
That'd be Philosophy, of course.
@clover, perhaps it was a test form generated to assure the invoice forms were correctly aligned with the print heads?
Druid, good thinking... Though I prefer to think it was a frustrated dispatch clerk writing any ole thing just to see if anyone would notice (and we did!).
But you've reminded me of once upon a time when I was trying to work out a stationery template, and for years we had this window envelope pinned above the desk with
"Mr Sample Person
Dummy Address
The Window
Top Left Corner
The Envelope PI55 0FF"
Like so much stuff that was on that office wall, I wish I had it now.
Great postal code, Jonathan. I've kept a folder of great wall items. It seems to surface every few years and is good for yucks at the time. Then, back into the Bag of Holding until the next time it fights its way to the top.
1.) Women's Studies
2.) Graphic Design
3.) Sociology
4.) Creative Writing
i'm looking for a field of study that doesn't require me to leave my bed.
does anyone else not care who delonghi is?
@lars: Proust
lars in all her forms, have you ever considered taking up autoeroticism?
@ lance: a day late and a dollar short, my dear.
Why study if you don't have to remember anything? I'm looking for a field of work where I'm not required to do anything.
And I don't care either.
This FIND did nothing for moi...
A field of study you don't need to remember anything:President of the United States.
What's wrong with you, Lars? Not getting enough attention?
A field of study you don't need to remember anything: Republican presidential candidate.
u could try running the country. (mr. bush, u forgot Poland...)
I don't know who you are, stillmeagain. I've got no clue at all.... hmmmm...
As for me, I know who Al and Still Me and DeLonghi are. However, I want to know who lars, mlm, Flargy, Turbo, Druid, nadine, Librarian, Baby Basil, Holly, The Captain, Farmer in the Dell, Lance Pants, Smallbear, Librarian, John, Sean, and a whole bunch of others are. Oh yeah, and Camelia. And those of you that I don't know who I did not list.
Oh wait. lars is lars. mlm is mlm. Flargy is Flargy.. Etc. I guess I DO know who you are.
Oh forget it.
Child in time, have you heard of the "100 things" where you get rid of everything except for 100 things? I would do it...but I just can't seem to get rid of anything
I said Librarian twice! I must REALLY want to know! LOL!
@Big HAIR.. me neither.
@Child in Time.. $16 is a pretty good deal to have all that stuff (mundane distractions) hauled away.
Clover, you might need to start asking questions and snooping around. Those tactics seem to work well for me.
Big Hair, I don't think Child in Time could possibly do that. Nice concept though.
It's me again, I don't want to do that, because I prefer a field of study where I don't have to remember anything. Even if I did snoop or ask questions I wouldn't be able to remember the answers. Oh well, I believe I will just settle back to my blissful patch of lawn. Maybe next to a Buddha. U da buda.
Clover, I guess then there's no point in learning who everyone is. Makes me think of that joke about alzheimer's.
What's the best part about having alzheimer's? Meeting new people every day.
That 100 things thing: can I count my Library as ONE thing? How do we count our clothes? Is a pair of socks two things? What about art supplies? paintbrushes counted individually? Paints? Pencils? Pens? sewing pins?
Is a pair of pants ONE thing, or two, since it's a pair?
Nope. I wouldn't be able to do it, either. Oh, and by the way: while Child in Time may have the right initials, it's not me. (not that it matters, but still.)
Really? Not you? There's goes my streak of spotting you hiding in the comment log.
I'm not me, either. I prefer to be someone else. Sometimes I like to pretend that i've lost my memory.
@Chrome, in French a pair of pants is singular: un pantalon. (But you knew that.) So if you were in France you could keep more of them. However, sunglasses and lunettes de soleil are plural in both languages, so I don't know how you'd count those. I am certain that your library is one thing. As is my record collection, which definitely includes my CDs and cassette tapes!
@It's me again. Yep there's a little bit of me in that Alzheimer's joke! Definitely.
Btw, I am almost always me. When I'm not, I forget who I am.
Am I the only one who's feeling uncomfortable with this "cat and mouse" guessing who's who? I know it's meant to be fun, but if one is using an alias, doesn't that mean one wishes to be anonymous? Maybe I'm too sensitive, but this game is coming awfully close to crossing trust boundaries. There's a time and a place.
Also in total confusion...everytime I hit the "Prev" button I get a different find; I have lost the 70's pic I saw yesterday, to my great chagrin. When I come into Found the "Find of the Day" is always the last-but-one, and when I hit the "next" button, the one I came in on vanishes without a trace.
There are gremlins in Foundland!
If it helps, the logo is actually 2 capital E's on their sides, forming the arrow fletch. Any clues there? Business beginning with E...
Two legs, one torso...a pair of pants because it's split. Like a pair of scissors. One's no good without the other.
Pare me a pair of pears, Per!