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March 29, 2007 |
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Lost Love
FOUND by soulbecket
in Hollywood, California
Found lying on the sidewalk. It had been duct-taped to a pole like many others in the neighborhood. I don't know if he ever found love again. So it goes.
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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...
As a finder of real love, I can only imagine the pain of this lost lover. But his/her sorrow makes me so thankful for my good fortune. His/her pain reminds me to never take my love for granted. We should all just cherish the love we find while we have it.
But I do hope his/her originality and determination won him back his/her lover.
Really. Creepy. Run, Michelle!
Well, that's obviously me. My ex-husband is in Hollywood. ^_^
This is really the saddest thing I've seen in ages. Poor guy, wonder what he did to lose her love?
Let's hope he did because this is one clever message. Who knows? Maybe he's found millions!
Wow,that's moving.I wonder if Michelle ever saw these.
OHHH!! that is so sad!!!
I love the thought of that ducktaped to a telephone pole.
too little, too late, I bet.
ahhhhh, this is soooo sweet and sad! doesn't it make you just want michelle and the broken-hearted kid to get back together?
awww...this is really cute <333
i wish we could find out what happened!
Can i get a collective "AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW"
Wow. Someone must have really loved Michelle. I wish I could find someone to love me that much. This is sweet, but sad all at the same time. Here's to hoping they could find love again.
What a sweet find! Bonus points for the Vonnegut reference :) Thank you for posting this.
Poo-tee-weet?
Perhaps next time you will think twice before giving someone the clap.
Geez.....enough with the loser theme. Somebody please post something uplifting!
And I'm sorry that Michelle's love was lost....what took place for this to occur? And how wonderful? sweet? creepy? that these notes were posted around the neighborhood. But give the person extra credit for original means of making ammends.
that's what happens when you're careless with love. i wonder if s/he thought michelle would see these dorky signs and come back. or maybe michelle made the signs....oooo the questions.
At first I thought, oh, how sweet, I feel sorry for him. But the more I looked, the creepier it got. I'll bet Michelle left him because he's a clingy black hole of need!
Why is the heart wearing heels... or are they boots? Michelle must have been a hooker.
Wooohoooo!!! I got my creepy comment fix early this morning!
Also- did someone at FOUND get dumped this week (maybe over the weekend) or something? Just wondering because of the pretty strong breaking up/lost love/self hate theme going on! :)
What a sorry sack of shit this guy is. If you can't reconcile in private, just spend a week in a bar drowning your sorrows and then move on with your life. Making a total ass out of yourself (not to mention embarrassing Michelle) in front of an entire neighborhood is not a very wise course of action. Shithead.
Huh. I read this as Michelle writing that she lost the person she loved, not someone else posting that Michelle stopped loving them. Both seem to work.
Either way, I identify way too much. . .
Vetta, I was wondering the same thing about that ridiculous shoeboot-wearin' heart. But I think that's the heart of Michelle's former love, not Michelle's heart.
My guess is that Michelle dumped this dude because she could no longer handle his Napoleonic complex. Instead of being comfortable with his height, ol' shoeboot dude tried to compensate by wearin' heeled shoeboots. Michelle's friends would just laugh and laugh at him until Michelle couldn't take it anymore. And now Shoeboot is postin' flyers around town and Michelle's friends are laughin' even harder. I hope Shoeboot gets the therapy he needs and/or Michelle gets a lover who is comfortable with his height. The world will be a better place when those things happen.
How do we go about contacting this "loser"? I could use the reward.
Stev, we cannot top your concise, elegant funny. you win this time.
you win.
Stev, the reward is yours. You can find the loser in the process of pulling down his pants so that he can show you the whole of the moon....har har.
Maybe Michelle's ex lover is saying he's (a)Prince at heart?
well, really, if someone did this for me, i would just get really annoyed and avoid the guy like the plague. but that's just because i assume that people only break up with really big idiots who ought to know better by that point than to try to regain the trust and affection of someone who never really loved them in the first place.
i am such a pessimist.
sniffle.. im such a cornball.. this is too cute
Lost Michelle's Love sounds like the name a sappy emo college band.
My name is Michelle! My lab partner always type his papers up in that font and it drives me crazy. Seeing my name in it makes me cringe.
This is going to sound extremely idiotic but it took me a while to figure out that the heart was wearing heels, I thought they were deformed lungs.
This thread goes to reinforce my theory that the increased incidence of stalking (or, perhaps, just the fact that we now have a word for it) has completely KILLED romance. For about half of us anyway. I'd see this as a romantic, grand gesture. Other people would be reaching for the phone to dial 911.
Sad, right?
It's fine to make a grand, romantic gesture, but I'm guessing that this was to try to make up for a previous gesture which was not nearly so romantic and may have looked more like sleeping with Michelle's dog or sister.
PR guys shouldn't be allowed to date normal humans.
it's sad, but i think most "stalking" is just romantic gestures from someone you're not actually attracted to.
I think what happened is that Michelle got really mad at her boyfriend and broke up or was on the verge of breaking up with him.
He knew it so he made these signs and put them where he knew she would see it.
That way hopefully she would take him back because of the sweet gesture and ...all that mushy stuff.
Hey Jo Polnachek (of Facts of Life fame), you sad that my public notice to Michelle wasn't actually to you?
"a clingy black hole of need"!!!
Wow.....how do I get one of those?? :-)
I can just see this sign being posted in front of Michelle's apartment so that when she came outside she would see that her ex had posted his feelings outside for the world to see. He didn't just write it on a piece of paper but typed it up and found a picture to go with it. If I was Michelle, I'd give his love back. And I'd give him a litte duct tape to put it back together...
Somewhere, Michelle is filing a restraining order.....
with regards to "unwise in matters of love said:
it's sad, but i think most "stalking" is just romantic gestures from someone you're not actually attracted to."
There's a subtle difference between 'romantic gestures' and papering the neighbourhood with notices of your lost love, or calling your 'one true love', (who would return your affection if only she would pick up the phone, instead of making you leave 153 desperate messages), who would see how deeply devoted you are to her, (if only she would open her curtains to see you in your car with the binoculars, where you've been waiting all night)
There's a wee bit of difference between unrequited love, and stalking.
i'm just sayin.....
michelle finally got rid of dude. he was sweet, but sad. pathetic really. the breakup was tough, but she needed to move on. tears on both sides. she hasn't seen or spoken to him in a week. there have been a few emails, but nothing overly dramatic, just "checking in" sorts of things. her friends have seen him around and say he seems to be doing well. as for michelle, the fog of confusion and clinginess that characterized their relationship is finally starting to dissipate. she is doing things she enjoys again. she wakes up early to head to a pre-work spin class with a bounce in her step. suddenly, she freezes. her entire block, as far as the eye can see, completely plastered in these fliers. she hears a piercing scream, then realizes that it is coming from her own mouth......
Things can be either creepy or intensely sweet, based on the doer of the action.
Like:
I once said, in passing to a friend, that I would marry a boy who gave me a chocolate lab puppy and the "Lost" Season Two DVD set. And I would! Because I love those things, both of them, very much. But then a boy called Creepy McCreeperson gave me the DVDs and a calendar-type picture of the afore-mentioned puppy with a Sharpie'd "IOU" on it. So ... that was more creepy than cute.
I really do wonder how Michelle reacted.
Now Eggs(1234), is Michelle the Jersey vegan hippie girl or is she the junkie from Vancouver with the lazy eye? I can't keep your bitches straight.......
so cute...iam a sucker for such...awwww!
Michelle is neither of those ladies that you mention. And take note, folks: my bitches ain't judgenmental.
As for you, Jo-Jo (a/k/a Fedor Jeftichew), you can expect signs like this to start showin' up in T-Town:
Jo the Face-Sitter Stole My Heart and Then Stomped on It; Menses of T-Town, Avoid Her.
Sincerely,
Eggs1234
Imagine if Michelle goes back to this guy. She marries him. Has kids with him. When the kids are having relationship problems what is he going to tell them? "just plaster the neighbourhood with lost love posters and she'll come running back to you!"
Think of your future children, Michelle. Run away!
I can only do one thing, and that's be Lady Flargereign. Margarine? Hmm...
Ooh ooh!!! Since we're role-playing, can I be the deaf girl from "The Facts of Life"?
i think the "guy" may actually be a girl. notice the high heels on the broken heart. most men with a broken heart don't wear heels. at least i think...
I don't think michelle even exists, this guy is just looking for girls to feel bad for him and get more attention.
God Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom always to tell the difference.
[so it goes.]
holy cow e1234 do you actually know what menses means?
Why would you take down that sign? What if someone in the neighborhood found Michelle's love? Now they won't know who to call to return it!
i really wonder how michelle is going to react to this. My initial thought was, oh how sweet! so hollywood-motion-picture-perfect! but then i realized that this sign is the exact thing that i am afraid of. my ex wrote an apology to me 9 months after we broke up and dropped it off at my house. for weeks i was paranoid that he would be there in my street when i came home. thank god i haven't heard from him again.
so i guess for michelle, its just gonna depend on the circumstances and her personality...
Now Flargy... if people didn't put up embarrassing notes such as this for all the world to see then where would us nosy found people be?
But yeah, my own personal heartbreak routine is much less public. A twelve-pack, a bright eyes cd, and a week shut up in my apartment is more my style of a recovery program.
Nice find. Wonder if they got back together?
This reminds me of some graffiti near my office, someone spraypainted a whole wall with the words "Michelle, I love you and I will never hurt you again x <3 x "
I agree with whoever said it was too little too late. The note writer probably never showed showed Michelle how they really felt when they were together and then thought this would win her back.
this brought tears straight to my eyes... i'm such a wimp. i hope he got her back.
In addition to being kinda stalkerish this "sweet" guy is also pretty fucking passive agressive, prefering this indirect attempt to connect with Michelle so he doesn't have to deal with seeing the dissappointment at his continued existance on her face. Dude's a fucking chicken. Stay away Michelle.
Oh, and Eggs: isn't "Seitan King Rex" kinda redundant?
this is proof positive that boys are stupid. too little, too late jerkass.
Um, Girl with Kaleidoscope Eyes, when I wrote "menses," I meant it to mean the super pluralative of "man." You know, like lots and lots of mens. But now that you made me think about it, I believe "menses" has another meaning related to another word with the same Latin root as "menses" and, um, I really didn't mean that at all. Nope. None. No how. Your word don't even make no sense in my context.
Dame Flargy, we all know you are Natalie.
Rex, yo mama's kinda redundant, in that she keeps repeating her visits to my waterbed.
Eggs, you're just jealous cuz your fake turkey is store bought and over priced (my ma told me so).
Eggs3MTA3, I refuse to be Natalie if I have to wear the argyle sweater which envelops her voluptuous form in this photo:
http://www.sitcomsonline.com/thefactsoflife.ht
However, I'd be thrilled to fill the role of Mrs. Garrett (provided I get to wear the provocatively unbuttoned shirt she's rockin' here).
Rex, the price of any tofurkey may end up being too high for any rational person to pay:
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/32790
Silly vegans beware!
I'd definatly take this man back. I wish my ex would have put half the effort forth to keep me around.
Awesome. I love Kurt Vonnegut.
ew. creepy.
If I broke up with someone, it's because something was broken with the relationship. PROBABLY, I was feeling smothered by someone needy is usually what happens. Seeing signs like this would do nothing but disgust me, cause me to taste bile in the back of my throat, and run screaming to the furthest location away from him I could think of. I'm jus' sayin'.
Perhaps this guy should get together with the girl who put up the posters reading, "I wish I never told you I love you." (http://www.foundmagazine.com/find/365) They could carry out their entire relationship in a series of public art projects: "She's still cutting; isn't my love enough?" "He farts in his sleep."
Wow this cool. I think it so daring to hang something like that.
Aww. I would honestly have to say if I was Michelle I'd most likely go back.
This one kills me. Like Sarah, I'm quite sure I'd give this guy a second chance if seeing this... It's sweet, so sweet.
if i were michelle i'd find it