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December 13, 2006 |
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How Tidy Is This Now?!
FOUND by Jake Eakle
in Sebastopol, California
Found by the side of the road several miles outside of town. Not anywhere near a house either - right in front of the city water tanks.
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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...
man, i always wanted to be first to comment. But wait, i dont get this... This for dump? this guy (or gal) is totally illiterate!!
I love the flippancy of the last line. A wonderfully female tone behind it. ;) Wonder if the bag going to the dump contains the property of whomever gave her a hard time about the mess? Maybe just one or two things....
Ya want f-king tidy? I'll GIVE ya f-kin' tidy!!!
Who hasn't considered using the "?" followed by an "!" for extreme questioning?!!
Did anybody else mistake the "front porch" for the "trout porch" at first because of the handwriting? Am I the only one? I wonder what a "trout porch" would be like? Anybody got one?
A teenage girl who's extremely annoyed at her mother might write on looseleaf, taking up four lines per letter to make her point. Do mothers ever really understand their daughters? NO!?
This sounds so British, what was this note doing in California?!
In answer to the question...I'd have to say that's fairly tidy.
Think gemma's right. This is definitely British English.
Having just moved in with my boyfriend, I have to agree with Samantha that this has a female tone behind it. haha Just last night I spent about an hour cleaning everything up b/c he had been complaining... ahhh, tidiness.
That looks once yet like what yasch would say to me. what a messy pig.
Maybe not British....a mum is also a flowering plant.
There could have been a mum plant on the porch that needed to go to the dumps.
Crysanthamum (sp).
Yep, I think it sounds British too. Not just the spelling of mum/mom, but there's a little something in the phrasing too...?!
No, it looks like she just can't write her o's very good. The "o" in "on" is not finished either. Not British, just sloppy.
what about the o's in "how" and "now" though?
The o's in how and now are followed by letters that begin at the top, in this case w... she stops the pen stroke with those. Words like for, front, mom she keeps a continual pen line.
Uh, Christina, I hope your boyfriend helped to tidy up too, since he was the one bitchin' about it.
When I read this I was reminded of an acquaintance whose husband died (they were not on the best of terms) and the woman left half of her husband's ashes in a plastic supermarket bag on her ex-mother-in-law's porch (with no note). The mother-in-law thought her son's ashes were kitty litter and nearly took them to the dump. I was immediately reminded of that creepy and insensitive incident when I read this Found.
Can't help imagining someone swithched the notes.Take that Mom!
speaking of spelling SWITCHED that is
This note may not be from someone who is British. It sounds like something that I would write and I also spell Mum with a 'u'. It depends on your background and here in Canada we are still part of the commonwealth so some of us use more british phrasing and spelling. I think it definatly was a female who wrote this!
I like this. It has a haiku kind of rhythm to it. I just wonder where they drew the line between what went to Mum and what went to the dump...
I get it. Someone complained about the condition of her front porch, of course. It's much tidier now, and one bag is trash, the other is for her "Mum" to drop off in the Goodwill box.
could be Ozzie. we spell mum right like the Brits. i had to read the note twice to really get the meaning...
I don't think it is British; else it would say 'tip' rather than 'dump'