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u/Melodic_Dragonfly391 Jun 09 '23
*Delivered in a patient belonging's bag from a hospital.
Oh lord, this woman. This sweet, old woman. Holy hell, my heart can't take this. How selfless.
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u/CrazyBarks94 Jun 10 '23
No, guys, it's cause the puppy's been Patiently waiting for someone to Belong to!
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u/Melodic_Dragonfly391 Jun 10 '23
how dare you make me smile while I'm crying
have an upvote and a virtual hug you funny wholesome bastard
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u/Successful_Care_1538 Jun 10 '23
I wondered if it was a poster or something but that makes more sense
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u/Nimindir Jun 09 '23
Plus... I don't know if you know anything about crochet, but from someone who does, that looks like an absolute minimum of 6-8 hours of work right there. Probably more if 'The Old Lady Next Door' has issues with her hands/eyesight (I am young/fortunate enough to have neither and crochet fast enough I have callouses and regularly develop blisters and it still takes me 10 1/2 hours to make a bear). Assuming she doesn't just sit down and spend the equivalent of an entire workday building a single stuffed animal, that puppy represents at least a week of work.
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u/Jinxed_Pixie Jun 09 '23
The PS note says the puppy was a little dusty from sitting on the shelf waiting. *sniff*
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u/ratsta Jun 10 '23
Another crocheter here. It's like that! We crochet for entertainment and the pleasure of looking at a completed project and saying, "I made that!" So what do you do with them when they're done? While some sell them at the markets or on Etsy, most people won't pay a reasonable value for a hand-made toy when you can get a stuffed toy for a few dollars (quite reasonable IMO). So the toys sit on the shelf waiting for a moment like this when you get to give a gift of love. When that opportunity arises, it makes the wait worthwhile. Truly rewarding!
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u/Mrs_Jellybean Jun 10 '23
As a knitter, I would rather a bear/dolly sit on a shelf waiting for a new friend than let someone offer me ten bucks for it. I absolutely spent hours knitting it because the action kept my hands too busy to pick up smoking again and the warm fuzzies from a kiddos excitement is otherworldly.
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u/Melodic_Dragonfly391 Jun 10 '23
Thank you adding this detail -- I'm going to go wail into my pillow now.
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u/PayAdministrative459 Jun 10 '23
Once i returned a boy's Toy Car By searching it in a nearby garden full of tall grasses , that boy was so happy Really When you help someone by your heart it makes your mood wholesome ): 💗💗💗💗
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u/summonsays Jun 10 '23
As an amateur hooker, I think that would take me like 40 hours....
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u/Rose_Christmas_Tree Jun 10 '23
As a half assed hooker. I concur. Been hooking for 30 years. Everyone should be hookers! Especially now at almost 50 and people gawk when I say, ohhh I’ve been hooking as my side hustle for 30 years!😂
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u/Nimindir Jun 09 '23
Yes, but my point is that it was a thing that she put a lot of time and effort into, regardless of how long ago she expended that time and effort. You don't just give away something you put so much of yourself into lightly. She spent hours of her life spread over days, perhaps even weeks, to make that puppy. And it sat on her shelf for who knows how long waiting for someone she felt was deserving of it. And that is what makes it special.
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u/razikrevamped Jun 09 '23
If I know anything about folks that crochet, she has a few others sitting around as well.
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u/Brynnakat Jun 09 '23
You’d be correct, yeah. I create for myself and then never know what to do with them so I give them away (when I can afford to)
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u/Guthwine_R Jun 09 '23
That’s the first thing I saw and my heart just broke. Been a nurse for about 5 years and I’m just sitting here boohooing.
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u/t00oldforthisshit Jun 10 '23
The patient bag broke my fucking heart.
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u/Melodic_Dragonfly391 Jun 10 '23
It's the part that makes me tear up over and over again
this post is my new 'song I listen to to cry' damn
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u/up-white-gold Jun 10 '23
Am I missing something is this just some random bag or it’s probably a dead grandchild’s or??
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u/wanttotalktopeople Jun 10 '23
I assumed that she knits stuffed animals to donate to kids in hospitals and has a bunch of bags for that purpose. Or she saves all the plastic bags that she's ever gotten.
I guess the internet take is something along the lines of she or a loved one has been in the hospital recently? tbh I'm not fully getting it either
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u/bougainvilleaT Jun 10 '23
It's not unlikely for elderly people to go to the hospital. And it's very common for old women to keep stuff like that bag for reuse.
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u/bougainvilleaT Jun 10 '23
It's just and old lady thing to have a bag like that. My own grandma would keep it to reuse it. She also takes home the bags for dirty laundry from hospitals and hotels.
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u/xlinvx Jun 09 '23
what does that mean?
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Jun 09 '23
That bag was given to her either when she or her spouse was discharged from the hospital.
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u/SanchoRojo Jun 09 '23
My dark mind went to it being her daughter or grand daughters who may not have made it out of the hospital, so this kind old woman was passing on the last thing she has left from her to a new girl.
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That is fairly dark, to be fair. I think deceased husband is somewhat more likely…
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u/houseofprimetofu Jun 10 '23
She might have gone in for a little thing, too. You get one any time you have to change clothes.
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u/EngineNo81 Jun 10 '23
Right, anytime you have a colonoscopy or any routine thing like that! Hospital bags aren’t always an indication of something bad happening. Well. Colonoscopies are pretty traumatizing during the prep phase, but LOL
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u/houseofprimetofu Jun 10 '23
I didn’t mind the day of prep! A lot of folks struggle but for me it was just eating like I was sick. To be fair I have diverticulitis so nothing can beat that.
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u/fearhs Jun 10 '23
I feel cheated; I've been to the hospital several times over the years and I've never gotten a stuffed animal!
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u/Drakmanka Jun 10 '23
I had my tonsils out at age 3 and not only did they steal my tonsils but all I got was a popsicle afterwards!! It's been 27 years and yes I'm still salty about them stealing my tonsils (okay they didn't steal them, my parents gave them permission to keep them, but I had told everyone possible that I wanted to keep them in a jar.)
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u/adventureremily Jun 10 '23
You got a popsicle? I had mine out when I was 18 (pro tip: DON'T WAIT TO DO IT UNTIL YOU'RE AN ADULT, IT SUCKS) and was forbidden anything cold. 😔
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u/Hungovah Jun 10 '23
For a split second I thought you meant everyone got a little dog and I felt like I’d been ripped off
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u/SanchoRojo Jun 09 '23
Yeah probably. I just imagine this was some little girls only possession and that how the hospital gave it her grandma or mom after she passed.
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u/lying-therapy-dog Jun 09 '23 edited 13d ago
flag quickest grab nippy gray quicksand cooing dinner squeamish adjoining
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u/Apprehensive-Till936 Jun 10 '23
I’ve worked in a lot of hospitals, and they’re all cancer hospitals…
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u/ZeeRowKewl Jun 10 '23
This is exactly how I saw it. I know now that I’m wrong, but it makes the most sense in my head.
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u/lurkeylurkerton Jun 09 '23
Maybe she works at a hospital
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u/Melodic_Dragonfly391 Jun 10 '23
^ best case scenario is that this old woman works at a hospital
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Stole it from a patient
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u/Melodic_Dragonfly391 Jun 10 '23
^^^ new take is that this old woman mugged a hospital patient lol
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u/oftenrunaway Jun 10 '23
I accept this reality and am okay with it replacing the current one of all the bags like that which have accumulated around my parents house over the last few years spent fighting (and losing to) the cancer that will take my mom from me any day now.
Imagining old ladies mugging sick kids for their stuffed animals made me laugh pretty hard. Thanks.
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u/Melodic_Dragonfly391 Jun 10 '23
One of my parents entered a dire medical circumstance last year. (Our house has these too, which is how I ID'ed it.) I'm so sorry. I cannot imagine your experience these days. My heart is with you.
On another note, I can't imagine what criminal-old-lady's game plan is giving away her loot to this little girl, maybe she needs an ally to help her rob a bank?? Only time will tell...
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u/oftenrunaway Jun 10 '23
Perhaps she uses a network of neighborhood children to fence the ill gotten stuffed goods.
(Thanks. It sucks lol)
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u/Melodic_Dragonfly391 Jun 10 '23
Yo, those kids and stuffed animals are drug mules. 100% that Care Bear is off running pills on another block
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u/Mypornnameis_ Jun 10 '23
Literally punched some cancer kid in the face as he was leaving the hospital and ran off with all his stuff.
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u/polkadotrose707 Jun 10 '23
My heart hurts and my eyes are leaking. This is so sweet and I hope this lady has just as thoughtful and caring people in her life too.
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u/Aztecah Jun 09 '23
"waiting for a little girl to need him" my heart
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u/JimmiJimJimmiJimJim Jun 10 '23
Teared up reading that part. That's rough.
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u/Mc_Whiskey Jun 10 '23
It made me tear up as well, but because it made me think how happy she was to find a little girl who needed a puppy.
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u/Penginsaurus Jun 10 '23
I don't know if it's because of watching movies like Toy Story, but yea that line killed me.
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u/StuBonobo Jun 09 '23
Oh that hit my heart hard.
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u/iamgerrit Jun 10 '23 edited Jun 10 '23
When my dog died I was heartbroken. It was during covid and I had already lost friends. An elderly woman noticed me carrying his body in a blanket to my car. Then she never saw him again. I had some bad nights. I drank a lot on my patio and cried.
Then one day this adorable knitted puppy showed up on my doorstep. I guess she watched him grow up and then disappear well before he should have. Then she heard my sobbing for a week straight. So she knitted me “my puppy with an overly large head and ears”.
I slept with that stuffed animal for weeks and I was a late 30s man. He still sits in my office to this day keeping me company.
Edit: please don’t give me gold. I appreciate the sentiment. I appreciate the heart of the person who gave me gold and messaged them privately. But if anyone else wants to, we’ll, don’t. Send that money to your local shelter. I only got my buddy because a shelter had a dog in need. They can always use funding. People can always use a companion. Donations to shelters means someone else can have a friend as great as mine.
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u/jctennis Jun 10 '23
We need a photo of the stuffed friend!
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u/iamgerrit Jun 10 '23 edited Jun 10 '23
So I don’t take him when I travel. I can’t risk him being lost in luggage. I won’t be home for 10 days, but I’ll send you a pic then.
Edit: I don’t sleep with him anymore either because some stuffing comes out of his neck. Incase anyone wonders why he stays in my office.
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u/jctennis Jun 10 '23
You're going to have to post a follow up for us
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u/iamgerrit Jun 10 '23
I will forget. And I don’t know if the remindme bit will work with the api changes. But if you remind me in 10 days I’ll send you a pic.
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u/Sareya Jun 10 '23
Depending on how tightly woven he is, you could get a small crochet hook and sneak some new stuffing into his neck to help restore his vertebrae.
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u/ffskms Jun 10 '23
I barely got through that first paragraph before tearing up. I am so sorry for your loss(es). I’m glad someone was kind to you in such a difficult time. I really hope you’re doing okay.
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u/Difficult-Draft1838 Jun 10 '23
😩ugh my heart 💔
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u/iamgerrit Jun 10 '23
You’re telling me.
For months I didn’t even know who it was who gave it to me. Then one day her husband caught me on a day off and casually asked for a had with something. I’m neighborly, so I agreed. As I was helping him he told me how his wife spends a lot of time on the porch “spying on the neighbors and smoking weed” he said “even with her arthritis she knitted someone a stuffed animal of their dog who died.”
Thankfully I kept it together in front of him.
I’m not a big weed smoker, but it’s legal where I live. I was also doing electrical work for a grower. I’m an engineer that does custom lighting systems and was overseeing grow operations. Technically I couldn’t use any products because I was tested at the company I worked for. That didn’t stop them from offering free product. So I made sure everything was off the books and I took her home two ounces of their finest product.
How could I not? Her husband made it clear they were pensioners and he hates that she uses weed for her pain because it was so expensive.
Well, without her being an old stoner I would have been alone, middle of covid, with a dead dog, dead friends, and depressed as fuck.
That company has her number and as a personal favor looks out for her ”medical needs”.
Sometimes people are good.
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u/AffectionateDraw9415 Jun 10 '23
You’re an awesome human
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u/iamgerrit Jun 10 '23
I’m literally just a person. If we all loved in a way that supported those around us we’d all do fine.
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u/AffectionateDraw9415 Jun 10 '23
Well thanks for proving that there are great people out there still!
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u/Background-Anxiety27 Jun 10 '23
this is the BEST story i’ve ever read! i’m sorry for your loss i’m thankful for every single thing that happened next. be well
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u/survivalinsufficient Jun 10 '23
This is so effing sweet. I’m sobbing.
My dog just died on Sunday. I can’t stop crying. And my poor two year old. Just…hugs. I’m crying now. Dogs and kind old ladies, the best.
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u/showersnacks Jun 10 '23
You’re a lucky lad. My cat of 10 years was killed by his vet a month ago and the response I’ve mostly been getting is to pretty much “get over it, it was a cat”
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u/bettertitsthanu Jun 10 '23
You made me cry with this post. Im so so sorry for your loss, I myself lost my dog in January and I know how painful it is.
I hope you are healing and that this kind of selfless act of this neighbour helped you heal a bit even though it can’t replace the family member you lost ❤️
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u/Nimindir Jun 09 '23
Transcription of note for those that may have trouble reading:
Dear little Girl Next Door,
I looked all around the yard and I didn't see your Care Bear anywhere.
Maybe he's off on an Adventure! And he'll find his way home someday.
Perhaps this little puppy won't replace your care bear, but I'm sure you'll give him a good home.
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The Old Lady Next Door
You have very nice printing!
P.S. He's a little dusty from sitting on the shelf waiting for a little girl to need him.
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u/UndeadGuardian Jun 09 '23
Came here to ask for a transcription because I couldn't zoom in enough to read the note. Thank you, kind soul. Have an upvote.
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u/cotch85 Jun 09 '23 edited Jun 10 '23
What do they mean by printing?
Edit alright I get it you don’t need to tell me what 10 people have already told me
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u/JDMVilla Jun 09 '23
Considering it's from an old lady, she's probably referencing the girl's handwriting.
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u/50_centavos Jun 10 '23
The old lady probably thought OP was like a 9 year old girl not a grown ass woman.
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u/your_gfs_other_bf Jun 10 '23
To be fair, most grown ass women don’t carry around a carebear
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u/Ya-Dikobraz Jun 10 '23
A lot do. And to be fair I am not that old but I already see 18 year olds as little kids.
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u/panicked_goose Jun 10 '23
I'm 27 and still have my white tiger stuffed animal that I got at 4 on the night my mom took us (me and brother) and fled our alcoholic father. Still sleep with him every night...
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u/torontomua Jun 10 '23
just turned 35 and still have the teddy bear that was in the incubator with me as a little preemie. if there’s a fire in my place it’s the first thing i’m grabbing. i sleep with him every night and once i brought a guy home to hook up - he laughed at me and i kicked him out. his loss!
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u/Nimindir Jun 10 '23
I just turned 33 and if there's a fire the first thing I'm grabbing after my cat is the knitted gnome my mom got at my baby shower. I don't sleep with him anymore, but he hangs out on top of my stuffie pile in the stuffie hammock in the corner of my living room.
A couple of years ago my GF was in the hospital for a few days so as a care package I sent her two things: the pink fluffy bunny slippers I had been going to give her for her birthday, and my gnome. (he had a note tied to him with my name, address, and phone number just in case he got lost, and I was freaking out the entire time he was out of my house, but she knows how much I love the little guy so it meant a lot to her and helped make her feel better)
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u/Ya-Dikobraz Jun 10 '23
I have 20 years on you and I have a sock monkey and a cat in a Japanese bath plush. Both hold sentimental value, so I keep them.
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u/wolfsplosion Jun 10 '23
My mom was a sadist and threw my childhood stuffed lion in the fireplace.
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u/VoiceInTheCloud Jun 10 '23
You have our permission to get yourself whatever stuffed animal you want.
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u/Lurklurk285 Jun 10 '23
I'm 32. I'm a recovering alcoholic. I was in rehab a while ago now, but my rehab pikachu stuffy "Rehabchu" stays in my bed reminding me to stay sober.
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u/darthsabbath Jun 10 '23
I’m 43 and my wife is 41. She’s curled up next to me with one of her plushies. Hell, I’ve got a few myself, including a teddy bear that hospice made for me out of my dad’s shirts when he passed a couple of years ago. That bear has pride of place on my shelves in my man cave/office.
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u/Succmynugz Jun 10 '23
I don't carry them around, but I do have a few stuffed animals that are close to my heart. One is nearly 20 years old itself. A collie I got from Toys r Us that has definitely been through some shit lol, but still sturdy and great to cuddle
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u/ZhouLe Jun 10 '23
Old lady had a note with nice, non-cursive handwriting asking about a lost stuffed toy and came to the normal logical conclusion that she was dealing with a first- or second-grader with good handwriting.
Even wrote a reply in non-cursive "print" so the girl wouldn't have any problem reading it.
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Older folks also tend to generalize the age of folks younger than themselves. Even in my 30s I've been called "kid" by old folks. It is what it is.
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u/cotch85 Jun 09 '23
Thank you! I wondered if it was a poster or something but that makes more sense
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u/Superb_Literature Jun 09 '23
As opposed to writing in cursive.
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u/cotch85 Jun 09 '23
Oh yeah of course that makes sense I don’t think we’d call it that here in the uk but you print your name so that makes sense
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u/cardinarium Jun 09 '23
What do you call it there? Block letters?
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u/Lilz007 Jun 09 '23
Honestly, I think just 'writing' or even 'handwriting'.
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u/Arcadedreams- Jun 10 '23
I think older people think of “writing” as cursive and printing as not cursive. At least where I’m from in the states.
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u/Superb_Literature Jun 10 '23 edited Jun 11 '23
Block letters are the Uppercase letters if I remember correctly.
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u/Nagemasu Jun 10 '23
The child is actually an HP LaserJet Pro MFP M283FDW A4 Colour All-in-One Laser Printer
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u/Stealthzero Jun 09 '23
Print usually means plain English font for text versus using another style of font like cursive
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u/beatles_7 Jun 09 '23
I wish I had neighbors like this. I had to tell my neighbor to shut the fuck up at 4am this morning for playing music in the hallway of the apartment right outside my front door. This helps me realize that not every neighbor is an inconsiderate bastard.
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u/MaritMonkey Jun 09 '23
I had an absolutely sweet old lady neighbor who bought me an adult coloring book and a bunch of fancy colored pencils when I was recovering from surgery and this post made me realize she left while I'm visiting my parents and I forgot to say goodbye to her. :(
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u/FuzzyGoldfish Jun 09 '23
The apartment manager might have a forwarding address. A little note would probably make her whole week.
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u/MaritMonkey Jun 10 '23
I have her daughter's phone number from one of the birthday parties she invited the entire complex to (and like 25 ppl showed up!), I just feel bad that I wasn't there to see her off.
Getting her address directly is a good idea!
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u/hungrydruid Jun 10 '23
If she's as nice as you say, she'd absolutely understand. And I bet she'd be thrilled to get a card or note from you. <3
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u/ARCK71010 Jun 09 '23
Write her a little thank you card. It will make her day, week, month and year! (I’m an old lady neighbor, so I know.). 😆😆
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I had a sweet old lady for a neighbor in my apartment complex years back. Unfortunately her grandson was a 30+ year old good-for-nothing drug addict who would camp out in the hallway until she gave him money for another one of his drug binges. The maintenance guy happened to show up during one of his campout sessions and told the grandson to get the hell out and leave his grandmother alone. Well, grandson didn't like that so he went into his grandmother's apartment and stole her carton of eggs which he then threw on the maintenance guy's truck.
Plot twist: the maintenance guy doesn't drive a truck, he drives an SUV. It was MY truck that got egged. :(
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u/JustaTinyDude Jun 10 '23
I baked my neighbor cookies once. Earlier that week I lost control of the dog I was walking and it ran over to bother his dog. His dog sat perfectly still next to him, calm as can be. I was so grateful I baked him cookies.
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u/Canopenerdude Jun 10 '23
If you're in the US, be careful, there was that case a few weeks back where a dude killed a whole family because they asked him to be quiet while their baby was sleeping at night.
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u/WayParticular7222 Jun 09 '23
Made my day. I love doing things like that. I'm old too.
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u/boopboopadoopity Jun 09 '23
I bet you've lifted up many people with good deeds if this like what you like to do! Thank you for your kind actions, people remember!
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u/Kantotheotter Jun 10 '23
I'm in my early 30's I love to gift people hand-knitted items. Makes my day when someone notices the effort.
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u/WayParticular7222 Jun 10 '23
My wife does the knitting part. She màde kits for folks living out with needed sundries, socks, and scarves and caps this winter. I don't deserve her.:) Edit to say and good on you! Age has no monopoly on kindness. Bless you for caring and giving!
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u/Hot-Category2986 Jun 09 '23
I saw that bag and was bracing for a story about how a little girl who left that puppy behind when she went to heaven. We dodged that bullet, but only barely.
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u/MomOTYear Jun 10 '23
I was 17 when I was adopted out of foster care. I spent most of my life in foster care (8 or 9yrs to 17yrs). When I moved into my new home, my new sisters were around my age and both still had their original baby blankets on their bed. I was pretty amazed at this! I’d never even seen a picture of myself when I was young, let alone own anything from my childhood. Later that year for Christmas, my new adopted grandma gifted me my own “baby blanket” for my bed. She made me a baby blanket and told me the other girls got one when they entered this family, there’s no reason I shouldn’t get one, too. 20 years later, in my mid thirties, I was able to gift that same blanket to my newborn daughter 😭🥰
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u/TheObstruction Jun 10 '23
I can only assume you got adopted by Billy Batson/Shazam's family, from all the horror stories I've heard from the foster system. Even more surprising that you were adopted at 17. But it sounds like it changed your life, so that's great.
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u/Timedoutsob Jun 10 '23
It was a fully grown woman who lost the carebear though right? Not a child?
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u/rangpire Jun 10 '23
That's exactly what I was thinking which makes this hilarious
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u/OakAged Jun 10 '23
I'm picturing one of those kids FB accounts that the mum updates in the first person on behalf of the kid (cringe)
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u/SenorHielo Jun 10 '23
“You have very good printing!” I should hope so I’m graduating in June
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u/Captain_Sacktap Jun 10 '23
I don't understand how old this person is...
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u/kazz-wizz Jun 10 '23
Glad it's not just me, maybe little girls have social media accounts now or the parent posted as if they were the little girl...
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u/Captain_Sacktap Jun 10 '23
Right? Because the way it reads, it sounds like a grown adult carries a Carebear doll around in her backpack. Now I get that we're all attached to our stuffed animals from childhood, I'm in my mid-30s and still have a couple of my old favorites sitting in a corner of my room. But at a certain point its just weird to still be carrying them around with you.
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u/kazz-wizz Jun 10 '23
I see that may be considered unusual for sure. As others have suggested, the neighbour may have assumed the note was from a child and not an older teen/adult.
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u/reindeermoon Jun 10 '23
I'm in my 40s and my husband and I take our stuffed animals on vacation, and we're always buying new ones when we travel. If having something whimsical in our lives that brings us joy is weird, I guess we're weird.
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u/this_a_shitty_name Jun 09 '23
I am not well 😭 this made my heart hurt and feel fuzzy at the same time 😭 I'm so sorry the entire world isn't like this 😭
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u/Classic_Midnight_213 Jun 09 '23
Now tell me you’re 46.
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u/JAK3CAL Jun 10 '23
Although this initially made me a bit misty eyed I can’t help my nature and immediately thought… the person who left the note is 37 😂
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u/MelinaJuliasCottage Jun 10 '23
And crying from happiness, because plushies are for all ages especially ones made with that lil bit of extra love.
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u/sanguinesolitude Jun 10 '23
I'm a big fat bearded man. If a grandma gave me a hand crocheted little buddy, yeah I'd be pumped.
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u/Elegant_Body_2153 Jun 10 '23
To that kind girl who returned my wallet I lost in gang territory in DC when I was 19, I was so flabbergasted I forgot to give you a reward.
I've been trying to pay it forward since, I hope my efforts count.
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u/Hfhghnfdsfg Jun 10 '23
I live in an area where people often dump shit they have stolen that has no value. I have returned a dozen bags to their owners. I can assure you that no one hunts down an owner to get a reward. We just all want to make the world a better place. You're good, fam.
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u/Dizzy-Agent-734 Jun 09 '23
Kind of like that Kafka story that's been going viral recently...
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u/Sylvanas_only Jun 09 '23
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The one where he met a little girl in the park who lost her doll, they couldn't find it even after multiple searches over a few days.
Kafka then started writing the little girl letters from the doll's perspective, regaling her with tales of grand worldly adventures.
After awhile, I forgot how long could be months or years, Kafka gifted her a new doll with a final letter. Essentially the final letter underlined the journey and how much time had passed since the doll "started traveling" and that the world had changed them. They may look different and have much more experience now, but they're still very happy to be back home where they belong.
Very cute little story.
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u/CandidForefinger Jun 09 '23
This is what i expect to see on internet, this type of thing makes my day !!!
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u/SeraphKrom Jun 10 '23
Am I the only one convinced that the owner of the carebear was actually an adult, but the neighbour assumed it was a little girl?
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u/Amanda_Panda72 Jun 10 '23
That’s how I read it. As a grown adult that occasionally has to carry a teddy bear with me.
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u/Lulu_Altair Jun 10 '23
When I was 14 my house burnt down. We had just moved to a small village and knew no one there. Local kids (maybe 6-10 years old) put together a package with stuffed animals and board games for us. I am now 28 and still sleep with Geronimo the rabbit. A lot of adults still have and cuddle their stuffed animal. It's comforting and nothing to be ashamed of. Keep taking care of yourself everyone :)
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u/TakaEdakumi Jun 10 '23
That’s really kind that those kids did that for you!
My buddy is just the tattered remains of a blanket but he is loved.
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u/lovinthesun80 Jun 09 '23
I’m a nurse so used to the patient belonging bags- I also was super close to my grandparents and they did things like this. I just hope this gave the old lady joy just like it does for the rest of us. Wishing peace and love to the old lady so she knows people still see her and care💜
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u/thelibrariangirl Jun 10 '23
Oh my gosh. My old lady neighbor came over and spent time with me and my kids the other day because we were in the garden and I didn’t know how to be like… please, come over whenever you would like. I just lost my last grandma. I know she felt loneliness in those last years (we live far, far away), not too bad though, I know my neighbor has it worse. She can be my five-year-old’s entertainment any day of the week!
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u/Arachnesloom Jun 10 '23
"Everything you love, you will eventually lose; but in the end love will return in a different form." - attributed to Franz Kafka https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kafka-and-the-doll_b_981348
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u/Minnepeg Jun 09 '23
Oh my god that note…that note is truly magical. She knew the perfect way to communicate with a child. This post could be children’s book, the puppy made with love waiting for a home and the bear who is lost who finds a new loving home.
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u/HelpMe0prah Jun 10 '23
Hey I know most of us can’t really talk to strangers or have a problem with talking to people anyways. Talk to your neighbors at least one, say hi, bring them some food or something. I have a hard time talking to people, especially when first meeting them, my wife does the talking for me happily, so meeting my neighbors(sorta rural haven’t made it to the guy that pushed his brush over my property line yet… not looking forward to finally speaking to him, my neighbors said he’s a dick) usually goes easier. I hope y’all have good luck out there! But if you lived nearby and stumbled out my woods looking for your dog(it happened and it was weird) I’d try and help and take your number!!
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u/wt_anonymous Jun 10 '23
This is very sweet, but I think it's a little funny that the elderly lady thought it was a little kid with really good handwriting, and not an adult who had a care bear lol.
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u/BoJillHorseWoman Jun 10 '23
When I was about 6 years old, I lost my favorite stuffed animal (a raccoon) in a goat pen at a little ranch that I was visiting with my dad (Casa de Fruta in California south of Gilroy, for anyone who knows that area). I cried and cried and cried for ages looking for him, but my dad and I looked all around and couldn’t find him. My dad told one of the women who worked there and left our address so that she could mail him to us in case he showed up. Unfortunately, they never found Clawsy, but that woman sent me a whole box of new stuffed animals because she felt bad about me losing my buddy there. Now I’m getting teary eyed just thinking about how sweet of a gesture that was from a complete stranger who had so much empathy for a little girl.
Anyway, this post reminds me of that. It’s one of those heartwarming stories that reminds you there is a lot of good out there.
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u/playr_4 Jun 10 '23
It might be lame, but I get a bit sad when I hear stories of people outgrowing their stuffed animals. I'm 28 and I still cuddle the FUCK out of Clyde.
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u/StrangeEmily Jun 10 '23
I got my two stuffies - Alice the Seal and Noodle the Cat (Noodle is meant to be a body pillow) as an adult, from my best friend. And I happily sleep with both of them!
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u/trigunnerd Jun 10 '23
Now THAT is truly Kafkaesque. He once comforted a crying girl who'd lost her doll by writing her letters as if they were from the doll, all about its adventures. One day, he brought her a new doll, saying it was home from its trip. The girl said it didn't look the same. Kafka wrote that the doll's adventures had changed her dramatically.
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u/arcbnaby Jun 10 '23
First ever airplane ride for my first born. He was about 9 mos old. At the airport we were sitting next to an older couple... They pulled out a cute little puppy named Murphy. They said they used to sell a bunch of them and I guess now they don't have the shop anymore, but like to give them away. 12 yrs later we still have Murphy. 💛 (Though now that I write this out I realize it could've been not the best idea to take something from someone in an airport... It's a really small puppy, so it would've been hard to hide something in it, plus we were past security)
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u/sweetlazies Jun 10 '23
I love making stuffed animals and they are all waiting for this opportunity ❤️
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u/M1L3N4_SZ Jun 10 '23
When I was 5 my dad gifted me a white teddy bear. He died 2 years later. I'm now 23, this bear has been with me everywhere, I live 14.000 km away from home and it stays on my bed at all times. I dread the day that enough time has passed and he will be nothing but scraps, I've repaired it a couple of times already. Just wanted to add this, write it somewhere and tell a couple of strangers cause plushies are important, no matter the age or the reason.
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u/poppyseed008 Jun 10 '23
"He's a little dusty from sitting on the shelf waiting for a little girl to need him."
Cool now I'm crying.
When people ask me why I chose nursing as my career, I think I'm just going to show them this. EVERYONE has a STORY. Everyone has their dusty stuffed dog waiting for a little girl to need them. My mom keeps McDonald's Happy Meal toys in her glove compartment box for the first crying toddler she sees. My dad gets something red from me every birthday because when I was five, he told me red was his favorite color, and I decided from that age on that he would get something red from me every year. Little stories, little moments, little windows into human love and connection and empathy, everywhere. In every person I cross on the street. And soon, I get to get paid just to listen to the stories.
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u/roxy031 Jun 09 '23
This was so sweet. I’m so happy there are good people like this in the world. We need them now more than ever. Thank you for sharing.