Our submitter in Chicago found these notes were in her son’s 8th grade autograph book. “Only a few other students are going to the same high school that my son will be attending,” she writes. “These two girls are part of that group and seem eager to get on to the next year of flame-throwing. I thought the heart was a nice, passive-aggressive touch.”
Adds our submitter: “The weird thing is that these girls both appear to be so nice and docile in person.”
related: So much for “Have a nice summer, see you next year”
76 responses so far ↓
#1
FeRD
Sing along everybody!
“You know, I wish that I had Jessie’s bitchface.
Yeah, I want Jessie’s bitchface!
Where can I learn how to bitch out like that?”
(I guess the answer is: The drama program at L░░░░░ P░░░! Ileana will be there, honing her skills. I’m sure she’ll go right to the head of the class. We expect great things from young Ileana.)
Jun 5, 2014 at 12:05 pm rating: 14
#2
mcap247
Dear Jessie and Ileana. I hope you both get pregnant in high school, gain 100 pounds, and end up with only the love of your pets because no one wants to be around you.
<3
Jun 5, 2014 at 12:09 pm rating: 39
#3
clem
And I’m sure her son is an absolute angel, right?
Jun 5, 2014 at 12:15 pm rating: 59
#4
Megan
Little bitches!!!
Jun 5, 2014 at 12:25 pm rating: 15
#5
GB
I thought the first note was super bitchy, but then reading the second, and how she said she hoped he would be different and then they could maybe be friends, made me wonder what kind of a dick the boy is.
Jun 5, 2014 at 12:27 pm rating: 70
#6
exchicagoan
“L P” is *clearly* Lincoln Park, if I know snotty rich bitches and where they live.
Jun 5, 2014 at 1:35 pm rating: 13
#7
Havingfitz
Not enough information here to determine if the girls are just catty, or if the boy is, well, acting like a 14-year-old boy. They aren’t exactly known for their self-control or manners. Or maybe we’re all just reading too much into this and manufacturing drama where no drama exists.
Jun 5, 2014 at 2:22 pm rating: 22
#8
Hyacinth
I didn’t like everybody in school, but I sure didn’t write them a note to tell them so. Even if he is a big PITA dork.
Jun 5, 2014 at 2:57 pm rating: 28
#9
assiveProgressive
I’ve kept my junior high and high school yearbooks. They finally are coming in handy as we’ve reached that age where we forget names, but at the same time folks are starting to die off at a pretty good clip.
Jun 5, 2014 at 10:56 pm rating: 4
#10
Ajax
Saying a prayer for compassion and maturity for all three.
Jun 5, 2014 at 10:57 pm rating: 18
#11
hbc
Maybe this is incredibly naive, but the first one reads like a kid playing Opposite Day. The construction is just too awkward. I wouldn’t be surprised if the three of them (two girls and the submitter’s son) thought breaking the monotony of the notes was hilarious–after all, the submitter doesn’t know what he wrote in their books.
I’d say stupid, pointless jabs at expectations are just about as frequent in middle school as snotty, mean behavior.
Jun 6, 2014 at 4:29 am rating: 3
#12
tch tch
I’m more worried about the quality of the handwriting. Sheeesh!
Jun 6, 2014 at 7:24 am rating: 13
#13
Zero Our Hero
It’s sad to see a young man that is probably such a dick that girls would immortalize their aversion in a yearbook.
It’s sadder to see young girls that harbor so much butthurt that they’d immortalize it in a yearbook.
In the end, “L.P” loses because apparently, 3 douches are headed their way. It’s a tragedy.
Jun 6, 2014 at 9:57 am rating: 6
#14
Quite Contrary
You hope I’m different in high school? Backatcha, bitch.
Jun 6, 2014 at 12:54 pm rating: 13
#15
Kasaba
In my school, people signed each other’s shirts when they left school. One kid a few grades down from me, very carefully signed my shirt “P.K.”, going over the letters a few times. When I asked what “P.K.” meant, he smiled deviously and said “poes klap”, and walked away. It’s the only message I remember from all the wonderfully florid/inane/stupid/insincere messages that covered my shirt. I think that kid knew, he’d cemented himself in my mind for life.
Jun 6, 2014 at 1:00 pm rating: 2
#16
Lita
I was a highly unpopular crotchfruit, and things like this are why I guarded my yearbook with the fury of a thousand suns. No one got to sign that thing. >:|
Jun 6, 2014 at 1:04 pm rating: 7
#17
Madrias
As one who was bullied through the entirety of high school, I made sure no one signed my yearbook. I didn’t like anyone enough at that point to trust them, and after 4 years of cutting comments and snide remarks in person, I didn’t want to let anyone get a chance to immortalize their hatred of me in words.
I don’t know why everyone is blaming the submitter’s child entirely. Sometimes people are assholes to others for no reason other than they were poor, or had a different hairstyle.
Jun 6, 2014 at 2:21 pm rating: 25
#18
Sue
OK, so most of us are in agreement that these are rotten kids. But how rotten is this boy’s mother to be posting his humiliation on the internet? There’s a good chance Jessie and Ileana will stumble upon this post and share it with the whole school. Just what a freshman needs. Kinda reminds me of that after-school special where the mother hung the kid’s pee-pee stained sheets out the window for the whole neighborhood to see. But worse; there was no instagram back then.
Jun 7, 2014 at 2:53 am rating: 11
#19
LJ Chan
My daughter had a boy draw not one but TWO penises in her freshman yearbook. I took pictures, sent the to the Dean, then whited them out. She was mortified, but she would have been more mortified when someday her children would come upon the book. They boy who drew the penises??? After scrubbing lockers for penis penance, graduated as a Natl Merit Scholar.
Jun 7, 2014 at 11:38 am rating: 3
#20
LJ Chan
My daughter had a boy draw not one but TWO penises in her freshman yearbook. I took pictures, sent them to the Dean, then whited them out. She was mortified, but she would have been more mortified when someday her children would come upon the book. They boy who drew the penises??? After scrubbing lockers for penis penance, graduated as a Natl Merit Scholar.
Jun 7, 2014 at 11:39 am rating: 1
#21
LJ Chan
My daughter had a boy draw not one but TWO penises in her freshman yearbook. I took pictures, sent them to the Dean, then whited them out. She was mortified, but she would have been more mortified when someday her children would come upon the book. The boy who drew the penises??? After scrubbing lockers for penis penance, graduated as a Natl Merit Scholar.
Jun 7, 2014 at 11:41 am rating: 1
#22
Dolly
I was bullied very badly in middle school and even I was lucky enough that no one bothered to write something mean like this in my yearbook. They had the decency to just write have a good summer like a normal person would.
Jun 7, 2014 at 11:33 pm rating: 6
#23
sam
Neither of these comments strike me as particularly nasty or bullying. They don’t insult the kids appearance or anything. The second is even pathetically hopeful that he’ll be a nicer person in high school.
Jun 8, 2014 at 6:21 am rating: 3
#24
K
I had a girl I was “friends” with write ON my picture of my senior yearbook that she hated me. It sucked, especially because I couldn’t white it out. But that was a “friend” with poor impulse control. As for people who genuinely didn’t like me, or vice versa, Buffy had it right: it was always “have a nice summer”.
Jun 8, 2014 at 6:26 pm rating: 3
#25
assiveProgressive
Now THAT is a case where I think she should have been made to buy you a new yearbook. The other examples here, not so much.
Jun 8, 2014 at 8:16 pm rating: 7
#26
Gingerbread Grant
The girls appear docile, eh?
Didn’t the Bible say that the Devil will come like a thief in the night?
Children are Devils, I tell you!!
Jun 14, 2014 at 5:50 pm rating: 1
#27
macphile
I have a signature book from Girl Scout camp that at least twice contains a reference to my being weird (“I like you even though you are a weird person”). I also had a message that ended with the rather neatly expressed but self-deprecating phrase, “…had fun been your roommate.” This was from a girl who was very large (back in the days when most kids weren’t) and didn’t have a good time at camp.
Jun 18, 2014 at 5:20 pm rating: 0
#28
Rory
This doesn’t seem like bullying to me. To me, this seems like a kid who’s an ass (like most middle school boys are) doesn’t gives his yearbook to people he’s been an ass to to sign, and they kind of go like “What? Why does this jerk want me to sign his yearbook? Does he not realize how much of an ass he is?” (note: he probably doesn’t, because middle schoolers have very little self-awareness) and decide to write what they honestly feel.
Senior year of high school one of the weird boys in government class (he made irrelevant conspiracy-theory like comments and hit on the male teacher) gave his yearbook to the boy who sat next to me, and that boy wrote “You’re weird as hell, fugly and probably gay.” THAT was bullying; but these comments aren’t overly mean.
Jun 30, 2014 at 6:23 am rating: 0
#29
Dr. Chalkwitheringlicktacklefeff
I can’t pick a side on this one; maybe the submitter’s son really is a jerk for all we know.
Aug 1, 2014 at 7:06 am rating: 0
#30
Warren
What this post tells me is that schools need to start teaching cursive again. A girl with Jessie’s handwriting would be ashamed of herself in my day. (I’m assuming she’s a girl because of the “I”.)
Aug 5, 2014 at 3:02 am rating: 1
#31
klyn
Typical Lincoln Park Trixies in the making.
Nov 23, 2014 at 12:27 pm rating: 0
#32
Jetboy
Does anyone else think that Ileana’s comment was directed at Jessie?
Jan 6, 2015 at 1:06 pm rating: 0
Comments are Closed