grimace and the fry kids

April 23rd, 2008 · 123 comments

the school in l.a. where anna works is under renovation, so a lot of the kids cut through the library on their way to and from the cafeteria. recently, one of these fine young scholars spilled an entire basket of fries…and kept walking. one of anna’s coworkers picked them up, but he missed one. another coworker posted this note.

awesome shoes, dude

the amazing thing, says anna, is that the sign actually worked. “the student came in, took responsibility and even apologized.” happy meals all around!

related: no sarcasm left behind
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Tags: food · kids today · library

123 responses so far ↓

  • #1  zchamu

    Never mind the french fry, those shoes are massively offensive.

    Apr 23, 2008 at 2:00 pm   rating: +6  

    • #1.1  Mark

      Nice pants, too. They match the shoes really well!

      Apr 23, 2008 at 2:07 pm   rating: 0  

       
    • #1.2  MJaz

      Worse - I think it’s a skirt.

      Apr 23, 2008 at 4:26 pm   rating: +1  

       
    • #1.3  amazon

      even worse, manpri’s!

      Apr 23, 2008 at 8:24 pm   rating: +1  

       
     
  • #2  Coke-aholic

    God, get a grip people! The world’s problems in order of importance: Over population, declining oil resources, and of course, french fries in the library!

    Apr 23, 2008 at 2:08 pm   rating: 0  

    • #2.1  Mishee

      Don’t forget gay marriage.

      Apr 23, 2008 at 3:54 pm   rating: 0  

       
    • #2.2  Resident Grammarian esq

      I hope that list is in ascending order.

      Apr 23, 2008 at 5:04 pm   rating: 0  

       
     
  • #3  secondsout

    Oh, there’s my other french fry! I’ve been looking for that, thanks!

    Apr 23, 2008 at 2:09 pm   rating: +1  

     
  • #4  Mishee

    I’m wondering what the french fry did to offend the writer…

    Maybe it called her a “Cunt”?

    Apr 23, 2008 at 2:10 pm   rating: +4  

    • #4.1  Bellabeastie

      Or a Peckerhead..

      LOL Mishee!

      Apr 23, 2008 at 5:42 pm   rating: 0  

       
     
  • #5  Lorelie

    I met an offending french fry once. It told me I was fat and my baby was ugly.

    Apr 23, 2008 at 2:13 pm   rating: +10  

    • #5.1  secondsout

      But you ate it anyway, didn’t you?

      Apr 23, 2008 at 3:40 pm   rating: +3  

       
    • #5.2  Lorelie

      And all its little buddies, too.

      Apr 23, 2008 at 4:12 pm   rating: +1  

       
     
  • #6  Mishee

    Forget the shoes and the pants, what’s up with those LEGS?

    Is it just me or do they look a little mottled and red?

    Apr 23, 2008 at 2:13 pm   rating: +3  

    • #6.1  Heidi

      Yes, but is that a man or a woman?

      Apr 23, 2008 at 6:32 pm   rating: 0  

       
    • #6.2  Ben

      Woman. Besides hating fries, women liberians also never shave their legs.

      Apr 23, 2008 at 6:35 pm   rating: 0  

       
    • #6.3  secondsout

      Liberians? Liberians tend to be black. Oh, you meant librarians didn’t you?

      Apr 23, 2008 at 7:37 pm   rating: +4  

       
    • #6.4  anglophile

      Maybe Ben means Libertarians. They might also not shave their legs, I don’t know. I’ve never met a female Libertarian.

      Apr 23, 2008 at 7:52 pm   rating: 0  

       
    • #6.5  Ben

      Oh, I stand by my misspelling - of course I meant Liberians

      Apr 23, 2008 at 7:59 pm   rating: 0  

       
    • #6.6  Canthz_B

      Liberian librarians only eat french fries if they are Libertarian Libras.

      Apr 23, 2008 at 8:22 pm   rating: +2  

       
    • #6.7  secondsout

      But would the Libertarian Liberian Libra Librarians hang out with the Lebanese Lesbians?

      Apr 23, 2008 at 8:28 pm   rating: +2  

       
    • #6.8  unholyghost2003

      I am a female Libertarian, I shave my legs. ;)

      Apr 23, 2008 at 9:02 pm   rating: +1  

       
    • #6.9  Canthz_B

      Libertarian Liberian Libra Librarians would hang out with Lebanese Lesbians if they are Like-minded in their Licentiousness.

      Apr 23, 2008 at 9:31 pm   rating: +2  

       
    • #6.10  Cristina

      It seems like the french fries are getting to Ben. Obviously he was trying to say L’Iberians, but at the same time confusing the plural and singular. One Iberian would be L’Iberian, two or more Iberians are Les Iberians. :)

      Apr 24, 2008 at 5:04 am   rating: +3  

       
     
  • #7  secondsout

    Aren’t these things called Freedom Fries now? You’re not a true American if you eat French things. USA USA USA!!!

    Apr 23, 2008 at 2:13 pm   rating: +1  

     
  • #8  edicius

    French fries are the least of our worries at our library. Students regularly have sex in the 2nd floor bathroom. I’ll take french fry spills every day over that.

    Apr 23, 2008 at 2:14 pm   rating: +2  

     
  • #9  unholyghost2003

    dang! Mishee beat me to it … back edit back edit …

    Because I am a bad person I now want to smear the library carpet with a TRULY offensive spillage.

    What? I was talking about ketchup.

    Apr 23, 2008 at 2:14 pm   rating: +1  

     
  • #10  ErikaBlare

    What baffles me is the fact that someone took the time to actually photograph the lone french fry, rather than just throw it away. Situations like this, people, make me weep for the future.

    Apr 23, 2008 at 2:17 pm   rating: +2  

    • #10.1  fantasy

      This makes me wonder about MY future, I may not have photographed the french fry, but I am sitting here trying my hardest to think up a Snarky reply! :|

      Apr 23, 2008 at 2:26 pm   rating: +3  

       
    • #10.2  ErikaBlare

      Ah, but the pursuit of the perfect snarky comment is far more admirable than photographing fried food. :)

      Apr 23, 2008 at 2:48 pm   rating: 0  

       
     
  • #11  aflirtycatastrophe

    Let’s move on from writing a P/A note about poor abandoned french fries, someone needs to write a note about the fashion sense! yikes!

    Apr 23, 2008 at 2:19 pm   rating: +1  

     
  • #12  Mishee

    I am wondering why there someone’s foot in the picture also…

    Did the photographer go “Ok, now stand over there, I want to get a picture of you with the fry… now, smile!!”

    Did they want the foot there for perspective so that the kids would know this was on the floor and not the ceiling?

    So many questions, so little fries!

    BTW, I am officially going to McDonald’s for lunch today now…

    Apr 23, 2008 at 2:20 pm   rating: +2  

    • #12.1  fantasy

      Oh Yes, French Fries!! :mrgreen:

      Apr 23, 2008 at 2:27 pm   rating: 0  

       
    • #12.2  Mishee

      I caved and took the free Thai lunch from my work… the basil chicken isn’t bad, but it’s nothing like an offending french fry, or even fucking delicious bread!

      Apr 23, 2008 at 3:11 pm   rating: 0  

       
    • #12.3  Ricehead

      The foot is in frame to offer perspective to the size of the offending fry. With out the foot, the amount of offense is seriously diminished. I also think that the foot/shoe/leg/pant-short/capri is there to add to the offending of the senses, where the fry only offends the librarian.

      Apr 23, 2008 at 7:12 pm   rating: 0  

       
     
  • #13  Quite Contrary

    It shocks me, people, that no one commented on the people!

    Apr 23, 2008 at 2:23 pm   rating: +1  

     
  • #14  claw71

    Ladies and gentlemen of the jury I submit to you that this crime could not have been perpetrated by a student as both the submitter and the note poster insinuate, but rather an adult and most likely a female adult. Everybody knows that any kid and 99% of all men would have invoked the 5 second rule and salvaged every last one of those fries.

    In fact, I think we all know somebody who would have eaten those fries well outside of the 5 second window. This is a set up.

    Apr 23, 2008 at 2:25 pm   rating: +10  

    • #14.1  fantasy

      Not Just the gentlemen ,

      Claw,I would snatch that fry up long after the

      five second rule. :mrgreen:

      Apr 23, 2008 at 2:32 pm   rating: 0  

       
    • #14.2  secondsout

      I’m just wondering why the thick-ankled person with the ugly mixed-vegetable shoes didn’t snatch that fry up. Must have taken a sheer amount of willpower to control the urge.

      Apr 23, 2008 at 2:42 pm   rating: +1  

       
    • #14.3  aaa

      I dunno, I don’t think the five-second rule applies in a school. All those dirty little hooligans (I’m assuming this is high school or middle school) running around and whatnot just filth up the floor. Besides, in a public place, you never know if that fry landed on a spot where someone who stepped in dog poo just walked.

      Apr 23, 2008 at 4:34 pm   rating: 0  

       
    • #14.4  Ricehead

      Good point Claw. Unless the offender was say…a homosexual man as there is no way a gay man would eat a floor hitting fry. This I know from my own H.S. days…although it was quite a long time ago. And it wasn’t until the 20 year reunion when he showed up with his life partner that it all became clearER.

      Apr 23, 2008 at 7:17 pm   rating: 0  

       
    • #14.5  Brian

      To secondsout’s question: snatching that fry up would have required bending all the way over or squatting down which in turn would have required standing back up. Either method would have been challenging at best for thick-ankled, hobby-paint shoes man. Why go to all that trouble for one fry when you can head back to the canteen for a whole new batch at arm level?

      Apr 25, 2008 at 7:36 am   rating: 0  

       
     
  • #15  Canthz_B

    I would have assumed that this was a fry for the Brothers that could not be there.

    Apr 23, 2008 at 2:41 pm   rating: +6  

     
  • #16  Summer

    Effective use of down-time O great and tolerant school official, I do my nails at work when i’m bored, she creates notes with fancy pictures and even enlists the help of a leg model. There must be bigger fries to fry in that school than the offensive lone, lost fry and his sad owner. What a fucking loser!

    Apr 23, 2008 at 2:45 pm   rating: 0  

     
  • #17  Adam

    Please keep my library clear of all offending French items. Thank you so much.

    Apr 23, 2008 at 2:51 pm   rating: +2  

    • #17.1  RunBarbara

      This includes crepes, French bread and Girard Depardieu.

      Apr 23, 2008 at 3:07 pm   rating: 0  

       
    • #17.2  Mishee

      I’d vote Jerry Lewis before Gerard Depardieu….

      Apr 23, 2008 at 3:08 pm   rating: 0  

       
    • #17.3  RunBarbara

      Was Jerry Lewis actually French, though? Or just worshiped by the French?

      Apr 23, 2008 at 3:13 pm   rating: 0  

       
    • #17.4  unholyghost2003

      Jerry is, sadly, American but beloved by the French … sort of like The Hoff and the Germans …

      Apr 23, 2008 at 3:15 pm   rating: +1  

       
    • #17.5  RunBarbara

      Exactly like The Hoff and the Germans but without the alarming chest hair or failed singing career….

      Apr 23, 2008 at 3:16 pm   rating: 0  

       
    • #17.6  Mishee

      and don’t forget the most infamous recording of someone eating a burger
      since Paris did her Carl’s Jr. commercial

      Apr 23, 2008 at 4:11 pm   rating: +1  

       
     
  • #18  ErikaBlare

    Holy cankles, Batman!

    Apr 23, 2008 at 2:52 pm   rating: +2  

     
  • #19  Zsa

    Why is French capitalized but not fry? Are we completely sure this was not an American or German fry?

    Apr 23, 2008 at 2:52 pm   rating: 0  

    • #19.1  Mishee

      I bet you anything Zsa that MS Word automatically capitalized French… and if you look carefully I think I see a cigarette and beret… it must be French!! Mon dieu!

      Apr 23, 2008 at 2:54 pm   rating: 0  

       
    • #19.2  claw71

      American fries wouldn’t be caught dead near anything resembling literature and German fries stand at achtung. Nope, that fry is French all the way. Lounging around a library, waiting to surrender to the first dust pan it sees.

      Apr 23, 2008 at 3:15 pm   rating: +7  

       
    • #19.3  Hawkeye

      Best Comment Ever.

      Apr 23, 2008 at 5:22 pm   rating: 0  

       
    • #19.4  Lorrie

      Having the “French” capitalized is grammatically correct. In fact, the entire note - “people” included - is grammatically correct. Even if it is a little nitpicky.

      Apr 23, 2008 at 5:30 pm   rating: 0  

       
    • #19.5  Nina

      You’d bloody hope it was grammatically correct, considering it was written by a librarian. Lord help us if even the librarians can’t construct a cogent paragraph.

      Apr 23, 2008 at 8:20 pm   rating: 0  

       
    • #19.6  marcus

      God help us if the librarians make a big deal of a French fry lying on the floor when the point should actually be to protect the books…
      And by the way, the French thing about the fry is that it is so small, but all alone it vetoed against unrespectfull students attempting to destroy weapons of mass instruction :)

      Apr 23, 2008 at 8:38 pm   rating: +1  

       
    • #19.7  karin

      weren’t the so called “French” fries actually discovered in Belgium anyway? so does it matter if we do or don’t capitalize?

      Apr 24, 2008 at 12:00 am   rating: 0  

       
    • #19.8  unholyghost2003

      I think TECHNICALLY the “French” shouldn’t be capitalized … I do believe that the “french” in French Fries is a reference to the VERB french and would relate to the preparation method used on the potatoes not the nation of France. To “french” a food is to cut it into strips. Can we talk about Ramekins again?

      Apr 24, 2008 at 12:41 am   rating: 0  

       
    • #19.9  Lorrie

      Yeah, it’s still capitalized because they are not “frenched” fries - that would be the verb usage. In the term “French fries” it modifies the noun “fries” and is therefore an adjective. As in “French dude” - “That French dude sure smells funny.” Note: “freedom fries” are not capitalized. I believe cutting it into strips is “julienne” not “french”.

      Apr 24, 2008 at 1:00 pm   rating: 0  

       
    • #19.10  unholyghost2003

      they ARE “frenched fries” just because the “ed” has been dropped in common usage doesn’t mean that it is a reference to the country

      Apr 24, 2008 at 1:03 pm   rating: 0  

       
    • #19.11  Lorrie

      (Is totally obnoxious and busts out dictionary); French fried (the word “French” is in reference to the method of cooking): Cooked by frying crisp in deep fat: said esp. of potatoes (French fries). - copied verbatim from The New International Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary of the English Language.

      Apr 24, 2008 at 1:10 pm   rating: 0  

       
     
  • #20  RunBarbara

    I wonder if the rest of those fries were fucking delicious?

    Apr 23, 2008 at 3:08 pm   rating: 0  

    • #20.1  Zsa

      hmmmm… To french a fry. Gives a whole new meaning to “happy” meals. oops- this was a reply to 19.8

      Apr 24, 2008 at 12:50 am   rating: +1  

       
     
  • #21  claw71

    Sadly, the fry and the trifling note do take a back seat to Legs O’Halloran and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Shoes.

    Unless you’re wearing a big red nose and happen to be performing at a spoiled 6 year-old’s party that sort of attire is always unacceptable. I hope anna joins the fray and explains that the foot in the photo belongs to some developmentally disabled intern bussed in from the group home each day.

    Apr 23, 2008 at 3:11 pm   rating: +5  

    • #21.1  RunBarbara

      “Well, uh, let’s see, he was wearing a red argyle sweater, and tan trousers, and red shoes… No, he’s not retarded”

      Apr 23, 2008 at 3:14 pm   rating: 0  

       
     
  • #22  TuesdayPillow

    What if that leg actually belongs to the picture taker?

    Imagine the contortionist possibilities - or better yet - self-cloning?

    Apr 23, 2008 at 3:15 pm   rating: 0  

    • #22.1  secondsout

      I think self-hatred is more like it. Wearing those shoes and pants is clear evidence that this person has a self-hatred that burns.

      Apr 23, 2008 at 3:33 pm   rating: +1  

       
     
  • #23  unholyghost2003

    those fries are gross “steak Fry” style anyway I wouldn’t pick them up either … no big loss.

    Apr 23, 2008 at 3:17 pm   rating: 0  

    • #23.1  Mishee

      do you prefer shoestring or crinkle cut??

      Apr 23, 2008 at 3:32 pm   rating: 0  

       
    • #23.2  unholyghost2003

      beer battered. HELLS YEAH!

      Apr 23, 2008 at 3:38 pm   rating: 0  

       
    • #23.3  Quite Contrary

      Shoestring all the way!!! With lots of salt, please.

      Apr 23, 2008 at 3:45 pm   rating: 0