Wednesday, November 14, 2007
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Unscrupulous tendency to lie

I have a possibly unhealthy obsession with picking up things from the ground, especially when they look like handwritten notes. A lot of the time they turn out to be uninteresting (e.g. someone's name, phone number and/or address) but once in a while they are quite interesting or mysterious. For example, the handwritten notes below, apparently an outline of a very depressing letter:

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-I have this decision to communicate this to you in writing. I am to outline how I feel abt what you have done.

-Extremely-

-I have had 4 years of the worst relationship

-You have been in many respects a complete enigma to me

-I am not a vengeful person

-With deliberate intent to commit the evil act

-malicious

-I saw you as a wonderful, caring and loving woman, who in sicken and in health, is richer and would stay by me

-I put my whole life in you, I trust you constantly to me

-Unscrupulous tendency to lie, and scheme your way to get what you want

-And when you have drained all the blood

-You have left me when I was in my lowest ebb

-You humiliated me in front of my kids

-I expected you after all that meant though to
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 And that's the end. If that wasn't strange enough, it's written on the back of a piece of scrap paper, the other side some kind of police-related administrative data (it has to be police-related, because it has entries like CID, Operation Sapphire, CMU, Vehicle Crime, etc.). It seems to be some kind of inventory records, apparently keeping a running total on the number of [something] with a particular focus upon outstanding inventory (boldface columns indicate "Total Out of store for 5-27 days" and "TotalOut of store for more than 28 days"). It's cryptic enough to seem like an interesting puzzle (there are all sorts of mysterious abbreviations, never mind what exactly they are tracking, which could perhaps be guessed by looking at the relative numbers for different groups), but I've decided instead to shred it.

I think there are a couple of important lessons here:

If you must write an outline of an important, heartfelt letter to a loved one (or former loved one), it's probably best not to use the back of a sensitive document.

If you must write an outline of an important, heartfelt letter to a loved one (or former loved one) on the back of a sensitive document, it's best not to discard it on the street.

For that matter, it's probably best just not to litter.
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