Found this bloody weird note….

[Radicalpiloti]

Bit of a strange one. I finally got around to emptying my son’s schoolbag and amongst the utter rubbish (including a Batman figurine he insists isn’t his!) there was an envelope tucked inside with just “For You” written on it.

Inside was a list of instructions. Things like:

• “Don’t forget to lock the back door at night.”
• “Children should never sit on cold floors.”
• “The blue cup is for milk, not juice.”
• “Be careful who you trust with secrets.”

I asked DC where it came from and he just shrugged and said, dunno. Asked on my parent friends WhatsApp and they had no idea.

DH says I’m being dramatic and it’s probably nothing, but I feel really weird about it

i don’t even know what I’m asking but, wtf!

I did speak to DS again about it but he just got really annoyed and told me not to ask him anymore. He’s usually quite chatty so that in itself feels a bit off. He swears he doesn’t know where it came from and now refuses to talk about it.

The other points weren’t as creepy really, something about ‘Children shouldn’t play near the hedge’ and ‘Don’t let bedtime stories go unfinished.” I’m at work so don’t have it here

And we did have a blue cup when he was a child that we always called the “milk cup,” but I’m sure loads of families had something like that. It’s not some huge smoking gun. Still, the whole thing is unsettling, honestly I don’t know what to think - veering between it’s nothing and it’s something horrid!

I did speak to DS again about it but he just got really annoyed and told me not to ask him anymore. He’s usually quite chatty so that in itself feels a bit off. He swears he doesn’t know where it came from and now refuses to talk about it.

The other points weren’t as creepy really, something about ‘Children shouldn’t play near the hedge’ and ‘Don’t let bedtime stories go unfinished.” I’m at work so don’t have it here

And we did have a blue cup when he was a child that we always called the “milk cup,” but I’m sure loads of families had something like that. It’s not some huge smoking gun. Still, the whole thing is unsettling, honestly I don’t know what to think - veering between it’s nothing and it’s something horrid!

Can you explain what horridness you are worried about?

Sounds even more like dictation sentences for spelling and punctuation. Really not something to worry about.

It looks like a note written by a parent who is leaving child alone for the first time. A few reminders of what’s expected.

Well I am always going to be the one who does the exact opposite. I’d purposely unlock the back door, sit on the cold floor, drink juice out of a blue cup and tell everyone my secrets. And if I’m still alive after all that I would also……. 😳

How odd. I don't like the secret part and I don't like how your son shut down when you say hes usually really chatty. Hope it's nothing x

I used to work in a school and the milk was always given out in the same milk cups, which were blue, plastic beakers. They had Cool Milk printed on them. Probably commonly used school milk cups.
Also, if the children were learning imperative verbs they might have written lists of statements, commands or instructions. Could have easily ended up in a scrap paper tray or something.

I love people like you.

My question is, if you're all alone at night in the derelict house and you hear diabolical laughter from the basement, do you head straight down there, or do you stop to change into your diaphanous white nightgown before you descend?

Well you see I actually have a basement and the previous owner was found dead in it. I’ve been down there in my underwear before which might explain the diabolical laughter 😆

Still sounds to me more like instructions to someone in charge of children, not something creepy. Could have ended up in your son's bag as a matter of general classroom flotsam and jetsam.

My guess is that it's something one of his friends had to write out, maybe as a translation exercise for another language or a spelling/grammar/handwriting test, that they also thought sounded hilariously creepy out of context and stuck it in his bag as a joke.

It really isn't the big deal you think it is and it sounds like your son is weirded out by you going on about it so just drop it. Kids are weirdos.

😆

This sounds more like a list sent from one half of a divorcing couple to the other, along with the children.

It would really help to see the full list though, when you get home.

Is it another child’s notes from an English lesson that somehow got scooped up? Looks like planning for a book or film they are studying.

Sounds like the 'now put your spellings into a sentence to show you know what the word means' stuff. DD used to try and make the most ridiculous ones possible as a protest against what she felt was a complete waste of her time, often trying to use as many of the words in a single sentence as possible.

Siberian hamsters?

So long as it doesn't say "bunnies should not be boiled" I'd have thought it was all a bit odd but nothing more.

Does he go to Wrap Around care at school? I once spent ages trying to work out what a note was in DC’s bag, and then i turned it over and saw a drawing that was clearly by DC. Seeing that, it dawned on me that it was scrap paper, which DC confirmed when asked. Apparently, the Wrap Around clubs have a big box of spare/scrap paper (old worksheets, old newsletters,etc etc) which the children can use for drawing.

Sorry but you already know it's a bit freaky, so why ask if you don't want to know what people are thinking?

Why would it have “For You” written on it if it were an English exercise or whatever?

It's a bit odd but could have been meant for someone else.
I wouldn't worry about it.

I once found a small address book in my work's lost property and in the front were the addresses of all the hotels I've ever worked in & nothing else. Very very odd. Creeped me out a bit but nothing sinister ever happened.

Why are you being so dramatic and weird?

I hate to burst anyone’s bubble (quite a few ppl enjoying the horror movie vibes!) but this reads exactly like a list from a lesson on the imperative verb to me.

Some of the ‘instructions’ are written in the imperative tense, while others are statements.

This part of the curriculum also does roughly tally with the age of the OP’s child.

Most likely someone was supposed to glue this into their English book at some point but the whole thing has been long since lost in the mists of time.

Very random things turn up at the bottom of school bags!

‘’For you” envelope could be left over from something like a party invite, note that got passed around etc and then the list’s been tucked in at random. Really if the DS doesn’t seem freaked out I wouldn’t give it another thought.