My sister Diann produced this 'take me back' keepsake. You can see that I was angry, I referred to my mom as Mother. I'm guessing this note is from 1978 and that means that I was eleven. As best I recall, the setting concerned two movies. One was the debut of Jaws II in theatres, which my sister Diann had offered to take me to see. The other, I believe, was the television movie Kiss Meets the Phantom. I'm guessing that Mom... uh... Mother, had agreed to let me go with Diann, but there was some confusion about the timing of these events and concern for my being up late two nights in a row. It couldn't have been that my attitude had anything to do with it. Mom... uh... Mother was just being irrational. Look at the evidence--she got teed off and yelled! She determined I had a big mouth, for cryin' out loud!
Check out my spelling as an eleven year old. Crued? How about all the exclamation points? "...never gonna to talk to her again!! NEVER!!"
I called on Diann to reason with Mom... uh... Mother. I was the only sixth grader in the whole world going to bed at 9PM. Imagine that! Then I bust out a moral argument--in case you missed it, it went like this: I'm so embarrassed about this bedtime thing that I'm forced to lie. Lying is bad. So, as the argument goes, Mother needs to relax my bedtime... or she's forcing me into moral abandon.
Finally, check my use of big words. Underprivileged? How about that? So I spelled it wrong, but I busted out the big vocabulary for this note. It was that important. Crucial!
Here's the fun part: I have a drawer full of these notes--that my girls have written to Shari and me. Mom's teed off. Dad's unreasonable. We're underprivileged (only my kids spell it correctly, I'm raising them to be brats of higher literacy). Chips off the old block, they are! I can't wait to bust these notes out on them in thirty years.
that's amazing!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!! you... a big mouth.... how could she even think that??? ;)
Posted by: germaine | October 15, 2009 at 06:45 PM