Spelling and grammar exactly as written on the note.
When my husband checked the mail yesterday, he found this note on the front porch. It is written on one of those large, yellow post-it notes you see in offices everywhere. Now, it could have blown up onto the porch. It wasn’t stuck to the mailbox or door, but neither was it terribly rumpled, nor damp as if it had been in the yard or street. It was also in the perfect spot to have fallen off the mailbox.
Personally, it gives me the heebie-jeebies. I mean, is it meant for me? My husband? Is part of someone’s twisted (and badly spelled) attempt to re-write Milton-Bradley’s The Game of Life? I can’t help but wonder if one of my neighbors has seen me smoking and this is their stalkerish, creepy way of telling me it’s bad for my health. shudder
Ah. I see you haven’t spent enough time on either the Internet or these boards yet.
“You have no chance to survive. Make your time.” is a quote from Zero Wing, a badly-translated Sega Genesis game. Apparently, the rest of the game was unremarkable, but the opening sequence has become famous. It is also the source of “All your base are belong to us”, all of which is used fairly frequently on the Internet, especially places like this and Slashdot.
I am, however, a social worker who works with schizophrenics.
Many of my clients with schizophrenia have a fondness for writing. They write messages for people to see; or they may write page after page after page in notebooks (I once had a guy fill an entire legal pad in the course of a few hours; page after page of semi-comprehensible nonsense). These writings are perfectly clear to them but seem nearly incomprehensible to others. They often have poor grammar, spelling and sentence structure. Often there is a very vague hint of malice, or perhaps the implication that the writer knows something that the reader doesn’t.
Here’s an example: One of my clients has a post-it affixed to the door to his apartment. It reads (sic), “All you’re thoughts are re arranged. you are now in sang! Happy birthday.” What does the client expect the people who read that to get from it? Who knows? To him, it’s perfectly clear, and anyone who doesn’t get it obviously isn’t “in” on The Secret.
So, let’s parse your message:
“your hair starts to fall out from desease.” The writer of this message knows something that you don’t know, and is warning you.
“Your family shaves there heads. You just think it’s the funnest thing!” The writer of this message wants you to know that he/she is “on” to you.
“Go ahed 2 spaces to take time to laugh about it.” This is some kind of cryptic code that the writer thinks you should understand.
So, I’d say you’ve got a schizophrenic in your neighborhood who, for whatever reason, felt it necessary to grace you with one of their messages. Congradulations.
Before you freak out, let me say that most schizophrenics are probably harmless.
Do you have a neighborhood “kook”? That’s the person I’d be on the lookout for.
I opened the thread to suggest that you send it to Found. Let us know if you get “published” or if you’re the find of the week. I’ve started to look for stuff, but the closest I get is candy wrappers.
