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Aaron
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Find something. Write about it. by Aaron

June 4th, 2006 1:31 PM

INSTRUCTIONS: I found a letter while waiting for MUNI. It was a love/hate letter to "Adriano" from "Helen" and part of it read:

"I have done nothing but house you, feed you, keep you high, give you money, smokes, {and} keep you high. People like you are worse than ordinary people who fuck people over."

Naturally, I laughed and laughed and show this note to everyone I meet (I carry it in my pocket everywhere I go).

What have you found? Where?

The first page of a paper on "Interpersonal Communication" found in a parking lot in North Saint Paul, Minnesota. It's horrible. Here's the text of it:

Tom Hosch Hr.3

Interpersonal Communication



The only interpersonal communication experience that I can ever think of having was while I was working at Target. A man had come to buy a copper fire bowl in our garden section at Target. Now this copper fire bowl was in our ad and was also on sale this week. So this fire bowl I think had been sold out for almost five days, and I know I was sick of people asking me if we had it, So I got the exact same questions every time. They would ask if they could get a rain check and I would say no we could not because, but this time instead of finishing my sentence the man would jump right in and ask if I could check other stores, then I said sure let me check the computers, "here comes what I probably never should have said," but most of the time our computer is off and I checked yesterday and nearly every store was sold out. Now everything at this point was fine, the man did not seem at all disappointed or mad. So we were on our way to one of the computers in our store when what was a quiet nice man exploded, I mean right out of the middle of nowhere he decides to become extremely pissed off. And for the next half an hour I am trying to convince him to calm down. I think maybe he was trying to somehow offend me and make me mad.

So one perceptual differences was the fact that I think he thought that by somehow telling me how much he thought Target sucked and Wal Mart was better that he was somehow getting back at Target. He would group all the Target employees into one group and say how "you guys" always do this and that. When in fact the people to blame would have to be the ones who came up with the decision at Target Headquarters. The


Thankfully, this was the only page that was found. For the author, this was the only interpersonal communication experience that he can ever think of having. This is mind blowing. I am also trying to figure out the sentence that begins with "They would ask if they could get a rain check..." I can't really decipher what he's trying to say.

After a short study, I feel I can safely assume that the author was disgruntled and directly did something that angered the customer. He intentionally left out those details or even possibly changed portions of the story to make himself look innocent.

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"Interpersonal Communication"

"Interpersonal Communication"


Found!

Found!

Nice day to find random things. That's not me holding the paper.



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posted by Sean Mahan on June 4th, 2006 2:16 PM

Some serious meta- shit going on with having someone else pose with a found essay on interpersonal communication... Also, this paper seems like it should somehow spawn a Humanitarian Crisis task, but I'm not sure how. San Francisco has no mega-stores (we're a boutique town), but they'd definitely be a good place for a few tasks.