Writes Roxanne in New Jersey: “When my niece, Diana, returned from a yearbook-signing party, she showed me this inscription from a girl who Diana says she hardly even knows. We’re both dying to know what those terrible warnings about her could have been (but of course, grateful that Leah apparently gave her a chance in spite of them.)”
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#1
Quite Contrary
Hey Leah! Clearly, you haven’t met my friend, “tact.” I will introduce you. Love, Diana
Jul 4, 2011 at 1:22 pm rating: 90
#2
mrazda71
Wow… what a thoughtful inscription Leah… I’d hunt her down and find out …
Jul 4, 2011 at 1:24 pm rating: 90
#3
Rattus
Leah seems to be lacking some social skills, but I’d be willing to wager that if people are dispersing free-ranging warnings about Diana, then Diana is a huge bitch. The thing about huge bitches is that often neither they nor their families seem to be aware of that fact.
Jul 4, 2011 at 1:36 pm rating: 90
#4
Kay
Translation from teenese:
Hey, Diana!
You’re very popular and I am not. Your yearbook circulated too far in class / the cafeteria / at the party and wound up in my hands. What can I write to make you feel like the loser that I am?
<3 Leah
PS No one warned me about you, silly, because no one talks to me.
Jul 4, 2011 at 1:55 pm rating: 90
#5
Lin
Seems like the person writing this was trying to make a joke. Not a very funny one, but scan it again for sarcasm.
Jul 4, 2011 at 1:59 pm rating: 90
#6
Jon
This is the sort of thing I would write as a joke. How is it not clearly a joke? It’s a joke.
Jul 4, 2011 at 2:00 pm rating: 90
#7
Nick
Clearly trollin’.
Jul 4, 2011 at 2:43 pm rating: 90
#8
aquapt
Hey, at least she uses “you’re” correctly…
Jul 4, 2011 at 2:45 pm rating: 90
#9
TippingCows
Perhaps they were warning Leah about Diana’s tendency to gnaw on the necks of dead squirrels she found in the courtyard. Or perhaps Leah is part of a church that pegged Diana and her family as the anti-christ due to loud parties, children out of wedlock, and being absent from church on Sundays.
Or maybe Diana’s the type of kid that keeps to herself, doesn’t take shit from people, and doesn’t feel the need to please anyone in order to gain their favor. People like that aren’t exactly considered “kosher” in society …
/speculation
Jul 4, 2011 at 3:03 pm rating: 90
#10
Pay The Piper
Niiiiice….Love it.
Jul 4, 2011 at 11:28 pm rating: 90
#11
Canthz_B
Here’s what’s sure to be a controversial idea: Give your yearbook to people with whom you’ve forged a bond and not to perfect strangers for comments.
The people who sign your yearbook are supposed to be people you actually know and who actually know you.
Yearbook friends are not the same as Facebook friends, the comments are supposed to remind you years later of times shared with friends in your salad days. They are not a scorecard. Numbers don’t count, sentiment does. Sometimes you get a few surprises, as I found out I’d forged more bonds than I ever knew I had. This may be one of those cases. One of those times we’ve touched someone we never even knew we’ve touched. Take it for what it’s worth, and pay more attention to the people around you, because some of them may be paying attention to you.
Jul 5, 2011 at 2:33 am rating: 90
#12
bookworm
In another few years, Diana will have forgotten all about this. Who seriously opens for anything other than receiving comments?
Jul 5, 2011 at 10:39 am rating: 90
#13
divaandwriter
I vote for the bad teenage joke. I think the note writer was just being snarky.
Jul 5, 2011 at 10:59 am rating: 90
#14
Jimmy James
I’m going to bypass the whole “bad joke or simply tactless” debate, and suggest that Diana is actually a vampire, and that’s why all the other kids warned Leah about her.
But there was something mysterious about Diana that drew Leah in, despite the warnings. An air of confidence, of power, of being wise beyond her years, and not giving in to other people’s expectations of her. And a piquant dash (just a dash) of bitchiness. Little did she know she had barely scratched the surface of her strange new friend- she thought that yearbook signing party would be the last they saw of each other until September, but one night Diana showed up, hovering outside Leah’s window and on the run from the Frankenstein Gang. Leah unlatched the window and let her friend in. “I didn’t know where else to turn,” Diana said, breathless. “Yours was the kindest thing anyone wrote in my yearbook. Do you know how many variations on ‘You suck!’ an unpopular vampire girl is subjected to? And none of them are funny.”
Just then, the still early summer night was ripped apart, by the sound of the Frankensteins’ Hellbillly Hot Rod burning rubber around a corner.
“Oh Leah,” said Diana, “Let’s run. Let’s run and never look back!”
Jul 5, 2011 at 11:49 am rating: 90
#15
meeper
This is giving me flashbacks of high school when people I barely talked to asked me to sign their yearbooks. I must not have written anything offensive because years later they’re awkwardly friending me on Facebook where we still don’t talk to each other.
Jul 5, 2011 at 3:21 pm rating: 90
#16
orange dog
“Hi, um, Leah. We barely, like, know each other, but could you, like, sign my yearbook?”
“Um, yeah, sure. I don’t want to write, like, anything boring or cliche, like, ‘good luck’ or anything. I try to be funny. You would know that, like, if you got to know me better.”
Jul 5, 2011 at 4:31 pm rating: 90
#17
Paul
I wish I had thought to write that in, like, EVERYONE’s yearbook. Brilliant.
Jul 7, 2011 at 7:05 pm rating: 90
#18
4u2c
2/3 in the thread and we have transversed to: pride… Our integrity, boundaries as well thoughts of rejection to some degree.
(SKIP TO CONCLUSION- for me if keeping it simple)
Who knows if these girls are fb friends as well as if the act of sufficing a question reciprocated in Leah’s direction may be necessary for the inquiring mind down the road.
I have wanted to challenge so many point since starting to read this then falling asleep and now at five thirty- my time- able to mis-match some working thoughts to get in the game.
As these yearbook signing are not just mean’t for friendships whereas you interact on a daily or even weekly basis one might want to take in these little malnourished, non-convoyant ideas and let them grow within one’s mind or ASK what their significance is.
Questioning is a tough set-back but is better than having an idea of what one’s intentions were when the answer well could possibly be a few clicks away.
One should be savvy enough to compensate their levels of acceptance and respect as not necessarily very guiding. They can both be contradicted with actions… Unless some of the people in this world have a great simplistic (for the detainee of your examination) ways of showing how much each one of their moves have up’ed or down’ed your ante of acceptance/ respect.
Conclusion:
Try not to pass judgement too quickly.
Jul 8, 2011 at 10:27 pm rating: 90
#19
Kelsey
Why would you say that in someone’s yearbook?!
Jul 31, 2011 at 8:45 pm rating: 90
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