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October 12, 2003 |
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I Don't Know How to Thank You
FOUND by Laura Johnston
in Guernville, California
I found this post-it note at a campsite near Guerneville. I imagine it rode there attached to a yummy box of Hamburger Helper or similar, a child's fondest wish finally becoming reality. Really, how does one thank someone for such a joy?
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i don't know why this is so adorable, but it is.
I agree, this one is adorable. Especially picturing it attached to a yummy box of Hamburger Helper. :)
I see the note posted on a package of cookies.
That is so cute! I hope they got to eat it, whatever it was!
Baba and Marmie sound like the child's grandparents...the kid knows they will melt over the little note and s/he'll get whatever it was for dinner!
"If you are" is what puzzles me a bit...are what?
willing to feed it to them, probably.
My favorite part of it is the e that spilled over onto the next line... these are the freakin cutest kids ever.
Dear baba or marmie
can we please renew my subsciption for my turrets meds?
that'd really rock.
but seriously how did they fuck up "have"
upon further inspection I decided that the handwriting was too good for a child and a kid wouldn't use " I don't know how to thank you" about dinner
furthermore it makes me sad that their favorite is hamburger helper or the like.
See, I read it as "I don't know how to (make the dinner). Thank you." You're mighty harsh on this kid for it to be some random kid on a found items blog. He probably messed up "have" because he is freaking seven years old or something. For the sake of the world, please don't procreate, Helen.
This really touched me. I definitely took this as a child writing to his/her grandparents. Reminds me of my grandmother - she would make special things for me that my mom wouldn't - like macaroni and cheese with hot dogs - but minus the cheese, because I hated it - and she made sure to use real butter on the macaroni. God bless her!
Helen, if you look UNDER the "hav", you will see that the child originally wrote "eat", which also explains why there wasn't enough room to squeeze the "e" unto the same line as the rest of the word.
Definitely a kid and, unfortunately, definitely some crap food like Hamburger Helper (which I was well into adulthood before ever eating, and I am grateful it only happened once. Ew). Poor kid.
Oh, and Helen, a kid would say "I don't know how to thank you". It was probably something they heard somewhere and felt that their situation echoed the feeling of the original situation. My niece used to say things like that all the time, from the time she first started talking. Things were never "pretty", they were "lovely" and she wasn't "happy" about things, she was "so grateful". Some kids are just cute like that.
"Dear Dada or Mommie, Can we please (eat) have this for dinner?
(Option 1:)
If you are? (If you are already making it)
I don't know how to. Thank you.
(Option 2:)
If you are, I don't know how to thank you."
This seems to be a smart kid. I think he was aware that, "please eat this for" was bad grammer and decided to replace, "eat" with, "have".
After breaking this down much more than it would ever need breaking down, this is freaking cute, and I wish to have a kid who is as bright and polite as this one.
The 'e' was written below the word, 'can' and above the word, 'this'.
Also, I don't think the child that wrote this is that young, considering the way they've printed the 'a''s.
i think the a's are just upside-down e's
i love the use of marmie, it's what i call my mom. any of you geeks out there will know that it is from lousia may alcott's little women. how sweet...
I'm not sure if Helen knows any children.
Regardless, great find! Oh, the days when one got that passionate about processed, pre-packaged food!
I love this one mostly because my best friend calls her dad 'Baba.' I believe it's a Middle Eastern thing (he's Egyptian), and "baba" in Arabic is an endearing form of 'dad.' Marmie, however, sounds a lot more like "gramma" so this could be to the kid's grandparents. Adorable.
"baba" lol, I used to call my brother something similar to that when I was a youngster.
a "yummy" box of Hamburger Helper???? NO SUCJ THING!!!!!!
aw that's really sweet, i wonder if she got them?