I had an aunt who was severely schizophrenic, but happy as fuck.
About 5 or 6 times throughout the year, she would take these big manila legal envelopes and stuff them completely full of shapes that she had cut out of magazines. When I say “shapes”, I don’t mean pictures or articles - she would cut a square out of page 2, a triangle out of page 5, etc. And when I say “stuff”, I mean to the point where the envelope started to bulge out the sides, like a deflated football. Each shape would be cut out with surgical precision and I can only imagine the hours it must have taken her.
She’d mail these to my brother and me on completely random dates. We’d come home from school on, say, May 13th and there’d be two shape-filled envelopes waiting for us on the doorstep. “Sweet. More shapes” we’d think.
Our parents made us write thank-you notes after each delivery, which literally read “Thank you for the shapes”.
[quote]PimpBot5000 wrote:
I had an aunt who was severely schizophrenic, but happy as fuck.
About 5 or 6 times throughout the year, she would take these big manila legal envelopes and stuff them completely full of shapes that she had cut out of magazines. When I say “shapes”, I don’t mean pictures or articles - she would cut a square out of page 2, a triangle out of page 5, etc. And when I say “stuff”, I mean to the point where the envelope started to bulge out the sides, like a deflated football. Each shape would be cut out with surgical precision and I can only imagine the hours it must have taken her.
She’d mail these to my brother and me on completely random dates. We’d come home from school on, say, May 13th and there’d be two shape-filled envelopes waiting for us on the doorstep. “Sweet. More shapes” we’d think.
Our parents made us write thank-you notes after each delivery, which literally read “Thank you for the shapes”. [/quote]
Out of curiosity, she didn’t have a daughter than is now working in a casino?
i gave my mom a brick one year. wrapped it up, put a bow on it and everything. this year my parents are getting a custom, lifesize, talking cardboard cutout of myself. theyre going to love it…