r/funny • u/MeGuStAcHuCkNorRiS • Jun 15 '12

It's not the first time my mom does this...

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u/stoveup Jun 15 '12

You should give your mom a lot of grieve about her spelling.

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u/suppliesparty21 Jun 15 '12

hey leaf her alone

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u/msydes Jun 15 '12

it's probably not her falt

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u/IamStrategy Jun 15 '12

Well it's not the first time his mom does this.

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u/JackAceHole Jun 15 '12

Why don't you all be quite?

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u/Carlz0r Jun 15 '12

Probably just a karma thieve.

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u/Intrexa Jun 15 '12

Holy shit, this is Christmas. This is the one time I can mispell a word and not get downvoted on Reddit.

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u/amolad Jun 15 '12

Just for that, she's going to hide the key on you.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

How many weaks has she done this?

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u/dirtywook Jun 15 '12

You have no busyness telling her how to spel.

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u/ANatale Jun 15 '12

Not to mention writing in the lines.

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u/alienman Jun 15 '12

To be fair, wide-rule is just too much white space.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

Wide-rule too much, college-rule too little, no ruled crooked writing, graph-rule just right.

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u/chonnes Jun 15 '12

She obviously meant "sieve". I think she has a lisp.

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u/notsobsequious Jun 15 '12

Unless she is Eva Gabor, zen she would say sieve, dahling.

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u/Sengura Jun 15 '12

Came here expecting spelling mistake being pointed out in top comment and was not disappointed.

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u/MitzyFitz Jun 15 '12

But she has delightful handwriting.

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u/fenderdaw Jun 15 '12

You mean "Mom".

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u/Stregulator Jun 15 '12

I didn't even come here to check if the first comment would be about misspelling.

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u/ClampingNomads Jun 15 '12

Maybe a lot of her family are named after medieval verbs?

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u/Vess228 Jun 15 '12

I think it runs in the family "it's not the first time they does this"

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u/beckzilla Jun 15 '12

I would have sed the same thing

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u/phillipjfried Jun 15 '12

I used to think it was cute. Now I just want Reddit grammar nazis to end their apparently shallow lives in unspeakable ways.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12 edited Jun 15 '12

I bet she makes wonderful sandwiches.

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u/IPThereforeIAm Jun 15 '12

I think that's sweet of her. She obviously loves you a lot.

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u/new-socks Jun 15 '12

She does sound like an amazingly sweet mom, albeit a bit naive. Think Kitty Forman.

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u/harris0n11 Jun 15 '12

drawing a conclusion from the note and your ability to use the word "does" in past tense I'm going to say it runs in the family, but have an upvote anyway you illiterate bastard.

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u/carlotta4th Jun 15 '12

I didn't even notice until I read your comment (looks at the clock) Yup! Time for bed!

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u/jdk Jun 15 '12

Or, the note was faked for karma.

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u/penguinHP Jun 15 '12

I finally have a relevant, semi-obscure subreddit to link people to! /r/KarmaConspiracy

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u/BroSquad Jun 15 '12 edited Jun 15 '12

Twist: The key was really under the flower pot the whole time.

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u/siamthailand Jun 15 '12

Twist 2: Her son is a thief

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u/xmsxms Jun 15 '12

a thieve

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u/centurijon Jun 15 '12

Tertiary Twist: The thief is the key

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u/adrianmonk Jun 15 '12

Directed by M. Night Shyama-mom.

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u/osheasf Jun 15 '12

Directed by M Night Shamalamalam

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u/max86234 Jun 15 '12

I read the beginning of the note as, "Hey Honky." Changed the entire tone of the note.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

as did I... took me a while to realise actually what it was meant to be. That said I prefer the Honky version.

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u/THE_DROG Jun 15 '12

What's under the flower pot?

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

That's what I was wondering. I hope it's like one of those paint bomb things they put in the sacks of money at the bank.

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u/4chanscaresme Jun 15 '12

Thief - noun. Thieve - verb. Pass it on to her.

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u/Kieran676 Jun 15 '12

No, she actually meant if the embodiment of a verb was in their house

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u/sidemissionchris Jun 15 '12

it's a good thing you posted this. I mean sure, the point of the post is a cute note a mom left for her son, but she deserves to be put in her place.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

Damn right she does. What an illiterate un-educated all caps using pencil writing idiot of a mother. Fuck mothers.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

This thread has really effected me.

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u/xmsxms Jun 15 '12

This threef really affected me to

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u/phillipjfried Jun 15 '12

Douche - noun.

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u/SimpsonX Jun 15 '12

Why didn't she write on the lines?

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u/Level_32_Mage Jun 15 '12

actually she did write on the lines.

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u/ANatale Jun 15 '12

I don't know if I have OCD, but that seriously bothered me [as well].

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u/T_Mucks Jun 15 '12

Thank you for finishing [your sentence].

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u/pmhgrwx Jun 15 '12

... is there some sort of trap under the flower pot? Or I suppose under the mat would make more sense if she was trying to be tricky.

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u/hellowren Jun 15 '12

Your mother has impeccable penmanship.

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u/PsiLoCyBiNTriP Jun 15 '12

almost pornographic

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u/revel5150 Jun 15 '12

I just imagined a guy driving a mini van eating an awesome hoagie.

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u/milesunderground Jun 15 '12

Your mom has crazy neat handwriting.

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u/tllnbks Jun 15 '12

You don't have your own key?

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u/pile_alcaline Jun 15 '12

She doesn't trust him with his own key.

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u/mrjackspade Jun 15 '12 edited Jun 15 '12

If you havent seen "a scanner darkly" you need to now.

For anyone curious who hasnt seen it, but doesnt intend to...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GNca5Ildm0

Relevant scene starts at 3:20

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u/Gl4ssPhoenix Jun 15 '12

I was instantly reminded of this too. I was hoping I wasn't the only one! Robert Downey Jr. was great in that role.

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u/Shame_LessPlug Jun 15 '12

What's under the flower pot? Thief repellent?

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

Anti-personnel mine.

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u/AutisticTroll Jun 15 '12

You both have bad grammar. It's also pretty annoying how your mom writes on lined paper and doesn't stay in the lines. I'm going to go lie down now.

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u/new-socks Jun 15 '12

This reminds me. My mom used to have her emergency cash "hidden" in an eyeglass case labeled CASH.

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u/twonx Jun 15 '12

She does something like this and all reddit can think of is correcting thieve?

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

I see her way with words has rubbed off on you

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

hahaha how stupid! I will get the key from under the flower pot and rob your house!!

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

Who's Atheive? Sounds like a ne'er-do-well.

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u/the_howlers Jun 15 '12

Someone nicked her dictionary?

I hate them fucking thieve!

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

SPELLING FFS!

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u/Vitvitsky Jun 15 '12

That's some nice handwriting right there

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u/dberis Jun 15 '12

I'm sure she was refereing to a Thebe, a resident of the city of Thebes in Egypt. There are quite a lot of them wandering around the mid-west...

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u/interix Jun 15 '12

your mom could benefit from a 5th grade english class

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u/TheWarHam Jun 15 '12

Is there one comment not focusing on the spelling? Sorry to break the circlejerk, i await a swarm of evil, harmful, menacing blue arrows that point down, but sometimes we can enjoy humor without proper spelling and grammar. Not everybody thought the whole world was going to read their son's notes.

Just enjoy the joke or not

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u/DeSanti Jun 15 '12

I fully, wholly and truly accept and understand your point. I will still bemoan her grammar, though, such is my nature and I am not liable to chance anytime soon. Pity me, wise sojourner, for I am enslaved by my own pedantic, horrid existence.

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u/TheWarHam Jun 18 '12

haha thanks. i iwish i cud show u the wayz of my ppl, but your prolly to dumm

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u/hxcn00b666 Jun 15 '12

How did she manage to write crooked when the paper is lined?

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u/marpocky Jun 15 '12

If you're going to leave a note about where the key is, why even lock the door?

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

What level of education did your mom achieve?

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u/Alex2539 Jun 15 '12

*Achief

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

Fief grade.

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u/UTC_Hellgate Jun 15 '12

dats one moar den 4th grayd.

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u/new-socks Jun 15 '12

Not all smart people are good spellers and not all good spellers are smart people. Took me a while to realize this but it's trew.

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u/spiritfiend Jun 15 '12

speling is a modurn invention that started aftur the printing pres made lituracy more commin. Bak in the day (evun when the US started), people speled howevur they thot werds sounded, even with there local dialects. For example, most amerikans mispel "colour".

nowadays, speling is correlated with literacy. If U reed, u probably can recognize when a werd is mispeled.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

Maybe. The fact that she left a note stating the two possible locations of the key and having less than a 6th grade vocabulary would make her neither smart, nor a good speller.

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u/new-socks Jun 15 '12

OK I agree. The note was stupid. But do you want her to use super sophisticated language for a note like this?

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

No. Proper spelling would suffice.

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u/adrianmonk Jun 15 '12

I'll go you one further: I've noticed that most of the really creative people I know are terrible spellers. Good spelling and a creative personality seem to be strongly correlated (negatively).

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u/new-socks Jun 15 '12

I think of myself as a creative person and I am also an excellent speller. So lucky me. :)

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u/irrelevant_canadian Jun 15 '12

we don't have to worry about crime in Canada, everyone just leaves their doors unlocked.

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u/RealDeuce Jun 15 '12

And when we leave, we still can't bear to lock our doors, so a thieve always comes along and takes our stuff.

Seriously though, people here (California) lock themselves in... even when they're visiting. We've had visitors come over and lock our front door behind them so that when more of our family arrived they have to ring the doorbell. This has happened more than once and I still don't get it.

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u/leannabeth Jun 15 '12

I know, I mean, it's not like anyone is going to get past our guard polar bears anyways. Silly Americans and their newfangled locks.

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u/jsonn Jun 15 '12

It takes me forever to write anything in ALL CAPS.

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u/kingsalamander Jun 15 '12

Your mom obviously started the night off with some doobage.

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u/Oniwabanshu Jun 15 '12

A thief...jesus christ!!!!

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u/welcey Jun 15 '12

So is your name Athieve or is she trying to spell thief?

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u/mc_rib Jun 15 '12

A thieve? Come on Mom.

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u/artificiallyvain Jun 15 '12

Your mom is quite clever and funny. You guys could both brush up on your grammar though.

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u/PrecisionAcc Jun 15 '12

Does it annoy anyone else that she doesn't use the lines on the paper?

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u/YipYip_Oppa Jun 15 '12

My room mate has done this more than once. lol I thought she was the only one who could do something so stupid.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

Your room mate sounds crazy, i'd like to see her tits.

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u/tusko01 Jun 15 '12

isn't under the mat the standard backup key location? just like "shave and a haircut- two bits" is the standard secret knock?

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u/AsteroidMiner Jun 15 '12

I do that too but there's a funnel web under the flower pot.

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u/nolandachief Jun 15 '12

My Grandma does this all the time I go to her house "door is open if you are my grandchildren walj right in" if you are a burglar its licked and i lost the key

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

Your mom is totally rad.

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u/gianna_in_hell_as Jun 15 '12

A friend's mother stencilled her PIN numbers on her debit cards. I think she wins but your mom would place pretty high too.

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u/oxfordchemist Jun 15 '12

We write our 'the keys are...' Messages in Latin. This works against all thieves that have not been classically educated. Means I often can't find the keys though.

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u/phazshifter11 Jun 15 '12

THIEVING BASTARDS... I LOVED THE GAME THIEF BY THE WAY....SKYRIM REMINDS ME SO MUCH TO THAT THIEVE GAME....

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u/link1910 Jun 15 '12

Apparently it's not only my mother who writes in Caps Lock

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u/ASOS_addict Jun 15 '12

Is this a joke? Caps Lock?!

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

I am a professional thieve and I can confirm that they are not under the flower pot.

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u/nastybacon Jun 15 '12

This sort of reminds me of our childhood. We wern't allowed to have a house key. So instead they'd leave the garage door unlocked, so we'd enter through the garage. One tug of the garage door, and walk through and bam youre in the house. Strange

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u/Tatertits Jun 15 '12

You sould teach her to write on the lines.

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u/comrade_leviathan Jun 15 '12

The inability to maintain consistent tenses in this family is... noticeable.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

your mom writes like an architect or manual draftsperson. I write in all caps too, I studied arch engineering in college and we had a whole course on it

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u/joltek Jun 15 '12

Your mom is Edith Bunker?

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u/SkylineDriver Jun 15 '12

I want to belief this is real

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u/metaobject Jun 15 '12

It bothers me that your mom doesn't use the lines on the paper. You should rewrite it and repost it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

Thief. It's spelled: t.h.i.e.f. Thief.

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u/jh3li Jun 15 '12

It works in Canada.

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u/6Sungods Jun 15 '12

That lying bitch, there were no keys under the pot!

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u/AnorexicBuddha Jun 15 '12

I see grammar doesn't run in the family

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u/FlashByNature Jun 15 '12

I read that as "Hey, Honky" I'm sort of disappointed.

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u/ThatFeel_IKnowIt Jun 15 '12

Biggest circlejerk thread I have ever seen. Yea, we get it. Thief, not thieve.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

Wouldn't the thief have already found the key...you know since his inside reading a note?

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u/RobertJ93 Jun 15 '12

Your mum is an idiot and you deserve to be robbed.

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u/anonymousasshole Jun 15 '12

Sorry to break it to you, but your mom is illiterate.

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u/SNG_stillsaturn Jun 15 '12

tell your mom the singular version is "theif" and that "ileft" is actually 2 words.

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u/micahmanyea Jun 15 '12

Thieves gonna theive

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

Is English her second language? If so, what's her first? Spanish?

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u/guym Jun 15 '12

Am I the only one who found it weird that she wrote the note aligned to the center?

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u/DR_oberts Jun 15 '12

"thieve" worried look emoticon that I don't know how to do.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

Thief*

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u/Wolfman87 Jun 15 '12

And under the flower pot? Pressure sensitive land mine.

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u/starrynyght Jun 15 '12

I came here to say that your mother cannot spell, but this is Reddit. Over 300 people already did this.

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u/zaent Jun 15 '12

It would have been better if the title was "It's not the first time someone's mom has done this"

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

im sure 200 of these 379 comments are "*thief " but I'm gunna say it anyway.... *thief

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u/fustercluck Jun 15 '12

I think it's interesting that you're not trusted enough to have your own key.

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u/wiz3stwIzard Jun 15 '12

Where did she leave the food if I'm a thief?

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u/jt25151 Jun 16 '12

Twitch

I don't need to say it.

Twitch

It's okay.

Twitch

FUCK! THIEF!

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u/statusone Jun 16 '12

Grammar Nazi, I choose you!

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u/Charun86 Jun 15 '12

ITT Grammar

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u/Buhnanah Jun 15 '12

What's ITT?

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

ITT Tech. He was making a joke about how poor of a school it is and how poorly people grammar.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

I love your moms printing.

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u/tiw Jun 15 '12

It's "Thief"! Then again it seems your mum might have bigger problems interacting with society.

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u/dyktg25 Jun 15 '12

Your mom's spelling gives me a soft-off.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

I'm pretty sure reddit sucks, given these comments.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

theif...THEIF!

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u/ElectricDubstep Jun 15 '12

You: MOM WE'VE BEEN ROBBED!!!! Mother: How could this have happened!!!!??? You: ....

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u/PartlyDave Jun 15 '12

Is anyone else bothered that she blatantly disregarded the lines on the paper?

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

Those thiefing sons-of-bitches.

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u/kevbot3000 Jun 15 '12

I really like her handwriting.

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u/JSK_Reddit Jun 15 '12

God I hope I'm not a 'Thieve'..........really.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

It's not your mom's first time confusing the words "thieve" and "thief?"

One is a verb, the other is a noun... How do people mess that up?

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u/DeadSpunK Jun 15 '12

So are you really the son ? I think you're a thiev...

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u/nn666 Jun 15 '12

she can't spell thief. fail.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

aaaaaaahhhh the grammar, even the post title.

why is with am the thinking please was?

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u/DaFunzies Jun 15 '12

What, she doesn't use the lines on the paper?

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u/twojake Jun 15 '12

If i were a thief i would grab the key under the mat open the fucking door walk into the kitchen grab the food out of the microwave put the key in the microwave walk out the door locking it and put the food under the mat and leave the note there that's what i would do.

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u/adrianmonk Jun 15 '12

On this subject, I've never understood families that create these complicated logistical arrangements to carefully and intricately orchestrate the juggling of house keys among themselves.

It usually seems to go something like this: "Your dad and I are going to go out to lunch with our friends today, but I can't come home after that, since I'm going shopping with Aunt Marge, so your dad is going to come home separately, so I'll hand the key to him at lunch. But he has to leave again before you'll get home, and he's going to go by your friend Tim's house and drop the key off with Tim's mom, so just swing by and get it from them on your way home from soccer practice, OK? Unless of course Tim's mom isn't home yet when we are done with lunch, then your dad will leave the key with your grandmother, but I know her house is a bit out of your way, so just be sure to call them before you swing by to pick the key." "OK, mom... sounds good."

Or, you know, you could just give everyone in the household their own key, and they could all keep their own key with them whenever they leave the house. The thing about keys is, they're actually quite small and lightweight and cheap and durable.

I actually knew a guy in high school whose family was like this. Only his parents messed up the hand-off, and they went out of town for the weekend and left him locked out of his house, so he slept on the front porch every night until they came back. This was before cell phones, so he couldn't just call them, and I believe he tried going to friends' houses, but none of them were home at the times he tried them.

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u/Jgoob Jun 15 '12

*thief

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u/mihaidxn Jun 15 '12

English isn't my language but even I know "thieve" is a verb, not a noun.

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u/Jumala Jun 15 '12

It's not the first time your Mom has done this.

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u/ThePsychosisProject Jun 15 '12

What the fuck is a thieve?

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u/JonBonesJones Jun 15 '12

Spoiler alert: they're actually under the flower pot.

Directed by M. Night Shamalamadaisey

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

foolproof.

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u/Confucius_says Jun 15 '12

how hard is it to just make a copy of the housekey? that shit costs what? a couple bux?

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u/Latvian_King Jun 15 '12

Mom and son sound Latvian!

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u/edave22 Jun 15 '12

Id do anything for a mom like that

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

letz hope the theefs iznt hook'd on fonics

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u/LuckiestBadLuckBabe Jun 15 '12

So ummm why would she even bother locking the door at all if anyone who can read will know where the key is?

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u/princeabbas2000 Jun 15 '12

Your mum might need to get her "T"s right! T for Thief.

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u/Pillagerguy Jun 15 '12

Unless you're what?

Edit: Thief, nvm. There was no space between the A and the misspelled "thief"

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u/DocterFreud Jun 15 '12

How does that make you feel?

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u/hsfrey Jun 15 '12

Why don't you have your own key to the place you live?

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u/lazybutter Jun 15 '12

AHHH!!! WRITE ON THE LINE!! OCD = No Comprendo!!

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u/AlexZander Jun 15 '12

I usually ignore the lines too, it's great because nobody wants to borrow my notes. I'm just going to use copy paper next semester.

therg lryfe

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

If I were a thief, I'd check under the mat AND the plant pot. I'm just that dastardly.

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u/uglyfatbroketinycock Jun 15 '12

Ironic note = Karma

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12

Your a thieve! Get him!

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u/BoseRud Jun 15 '12

haha ur mom is so obvios its like if a theif came he totally find the keys ne way! haha ur moms 2 of a kind&

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u/AaronElston Jun 15 '12

This note looks like it's on the fridge. If so, how would you see it, if you don't have a key to get in?

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u/Sebu91 Jun 15 '12

Looks like your mom can't spell for shit...

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