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PAP103

06-05-2006, 11:47 AM

Dear Manager,

There is no need to talk to me like I'm a 7 year old. :mad: If I make mistakes on my report, you do not need to circle them in red and then show them to me. :mad: Also, please make a note that more detailed reports and longer meetings do not get the work done any faster. :confused:

You do not have to get defensive if you've made a mistake. Nobody wants your job - thats why you have it. So PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE get back in your #$%$# office and let me do my job!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Regards,
Your humbe employee

PS: My bike is on my car and my biking clothes are here in my office - a couple of more hours and I'll be outta here like a flash! :D :D :D

Nanci

06-05-2006, 01:03 PM

Dear Betagirl,

I'm probably going to have nightmares due to you and your monkeys.

Disturbedly,

Nanci

mtbdarby

06-05-2006, 01:25 PM

Dear Pavement,
What in the name of all that is right were you thinking last week when you tripped me up and made me crash????? What did I do to deserve such pain & suffering???

Don't you know that I have my first week-long ride coming up in less than three weeks and I still can't hang on to my handlebars? I'm going crazy here - I simply can not tolerate another agonizing mile on my trainer when the weather has finally become a thing of beauty.

I yearn for the sun on my face and the wind in my hair. I sincerely hope my human sacrifice of blood, skin and fat tissue is pleasing to you so that I may ride unafflicted the rest of this biking season.

Dar

P.S. This one handed typing is for the birds:mad:

KSH

06-05-2006, 02:09 PM

Dear Ex Husband,

First off, I really appreciate the fact that you decided we needed a divorce. Trust me, life with you was miserable, and I am glad you left.

True, I wish you would have figured that out BEFORE I spent $2,000 on taking your butt to Paris and England... but... whatever. I also wish you would have left when you had a job, so you could have paid me for the bills you left me with. How nice was I to pay your last cell phone bill, instead of cutting it off the day you left (Oh, and thanks for going over your minutes and never thanking me for not cutting off the phone!).

I also understand that you simply must get married because you have knocked up your girlfriend. I commend you on trying to do the right thing. You certainly never tried to do the right thing with me... unless you think cheating on me and lying to me... was the right thing. OH, wait... you have left her 3 times and you have cheated on her. Ooopss!

But, I truly wish that you would be man enough to pay for half of the divorce that you asked for. It was in the divorce decree that you were to HELP ME PAY for the divorce. Shoot, if it weren't for me doing it, we would still be married.

Of course, you ignored the court date (I think you were too cracked out on speed to make it. Too bad the cops who were looking for you a year later never brought you up on dealing charges.), and the fact that we got divorced.... do you know we are divorced? Maybe a mutal friend told you that we got divorced?

Anyways... from what I hear you have a good job now and a really expensive car... so, it would nice if you would pay for your divorce...before you pay for your second marriage only 1.5 years later.

Yea... that's what I want... for you to PAY FOR THE DIVORCE you wanted.

Sincerely,
Your ex wife (or have you fogotten that you even had a wife #1?)

Lise

06-05-2006, 07:31 PM

KnottedYet

06-05-2006, 08:30 PM

Dear So and So,

I'm really sorry that you feel the universe shafted you, uniquely you, and everyone else is better off than you and never (ever) been shafted by anything.

I'm not happy that I'm STILL thinking about the lovely phone call I got from you at home one evening a few weeks ago, in which you called me 8 kinds of b*tch and used the "f" word to describe me countless times. For nearly an hour. Then you sobbed into the phone about your ex, your kids, your debts, your sister, and how badly our boss treats you. You wailed about how little you are paid, yet refuse to take further training which our boss is willing to pay for. (with further training you would automatically be paid more for the exact same work you are doing now)

If you want to get into a pissing contest over who's had a harder life, I could tell you stories that would curl your hair. But there's so much more to the world than relentless, grinding, self-pity and bitterness and resentment.

Please grow beyond your soap opera (we all have them, you are not unique) and don't ever call me at home and have a temper tantrum at me again.

KnottedYet

KSH

06-06-2006, 07:10 AM

KSH: I hear ya. I think I got the female version of your ex! But she's a Buddist now, so all is ok in her world. Except that I'm still paying off the debts. :cool: As my sister said, "You're the one willing to stand up and take responsibility for your actions. Be proud of that." Hang in there. Sometimes you chew off a bit of your tail to get out of a trap. L.

You know what ticks me off? Is that these people... can come into someone's lives... screw them over and then walk off without even a care about what they have done.

Did she try to make ammends with you after becoming a Buddist? Or is that how she made herself feel good what she did?

Yea... we are the good ones... taking the responsiblity. But it's just so WRONG that they can just move on... not look back... and not care or try to correct what they have done wrong. Or even own up to what they have done. I even got written proof from the girl he cheated on me with... and I sent it to him... he proceeded to tell me it was a lie. And I knew it wasn't. He even told other people that I made up that story with her to make him look bad.???

For some reason I think if I could confront him about what he did to me over the course of 5 years...I might let it all go?!

When we broke up... he just left... and that was it. We never discussed anything. And, I set it up that way... because I didn't want him thinking he would ever have a shot at coming back.

Shoot...even after he left... he tried to screw me with his car insurance bill by trying to pull a fast one when I told him to change his address and get it in his name... but he told the company he still lived with me. I promptly called and gave them his Mom' address.

Anways... I could go on and on (as I am sure MANY women on this board could! Who here hasn't been screwed over by an ex?)... I guess in the end though, I just wonder, "What have I done to deserve this" (Pet Shop Boys song), and I wonder why there are some people in this world who are allowed to make messes everywhere they go... and continue on with their lives as if they did nothing wrong.

fixedgeargirl

06-06-2006, 08:03 AM

I guess in the end though, I just wonder, "What have I done to deserve this" (Pet Shop Boys song), and I wonder why there are some people in this world who are allowed to make messes everywhere they go... and continue on with their lives as if they did nothing wrong.

I still have my moments of wondering what I did to deserve this, heck, I have a lifetime of wallowing in self-pity behind me. But I feel so much stronger when I think in terms of "What am I taking away from this? What lesson have I learned?" In my case, I have learned to stand up for myself, to like who I am and not someone else's version of who I could be if I would only let them "help" me :rolleyes: . I know I will never repeat my Relationship from Hades, and have gained boatloads of self-respect from being completely disrespected by my ostensible partner. I believe these relationships happen for a reason, though I'm still trying to figure out what possible good could come out of me not being able to move back to my hometown thanks to X and his filing a custody suit here in boiling hot Texas... :mad:

KSH

06-06-2006, 08:19 AM

I still have my moments of wondering what I did to deserve this, heck, I have a lifetime of wallowing in self-pity behind me. But I feel so much stronger when I think in terms of "What am I taking away from this? What lesson have I learned?" In my case, I have learned to stand up for myself, to like who I am and not someone else's version of who I could be if I would only let them "help" me :rolleyes: . I know I will never repeat my Relationship from Hades, and have gained boatloads of self-respect from being completely disrespected by my ostensible partner. I believe these relationships happen for a reason, though I'm still trying to figure out what possible good could come out of me not being able to move back to my hometown thanks to X and his filing a custody suit here in boiling hot Texas... :mad:

Well... I certainly have learned something. I learned that I can't pick a husband and should never be married again.

And, I didn't let his screwing me over ruin my life. I picked myself up, dusted myself off and got a plan for success.

Honestly, my life is 100 times better since he left... and I have everything I need (well, I do NEED a new road bike and nice little tri bike, HA!). Not to mention that I am accomplishing goals and living out my dreams.

I am happy to hear that you took something away from your relationship and that you are better person for it. That's always a good thing!

Sorry you gotta live in Texas... although... I rather like it myself!

Brandy

06-06-2006, 10:05 AM

Dear girl in Spinning class rocking the flourescent pink mesh crop top over the black sports bra,

WHY???? Between that and the five pounds of makeup that you're sporting, you look like a hooker. Sometimes less is more.

Love,

Can't stop looking at your very strange choice in style.

mimitabby

06-06-2006, 10:09 AM

Brandy
I'm glad you brought that up. the other day I was stunned to see a gal in bike clothes on a road bike zooming down the trail without protective glasses but WITH several shovels full of eyemakeup.
It really cracked me up. I wonder if eyeliner protects your eyes

Dear Gal on the trail with makeup
did you really think beauty was more important than not getting your eyeball poked out by an angry bee? or ??

Sincerely
Mimi

Nanci

06-06-2006, 10:17 AM

Sometimes I don't wear glasses, though I always have them there on my aerobars, like especially really early in the AM or in the evening after riding for hours and hours and cleaning fingerprints off them a bazillion times...I think, though, if I had yellow polarized lenses, or those cool new ones that change, I'd leave them on.

On my Saturday ride, the group leader had a wasp get stuck _under_ his glasses, so it got in plenty of stinging time before he was done swerving and cussing and finally got stopped and got the glasses off. Luckily, we had benedryl, aspirin and ice with, so it hardly swelled at all. The next day he had two bags under his eye instead of one, so I was calling him the Two Bagger! I'm not sure if he got it. Maybe he did, but was just ignoring me...

mimitabby

06-06-2006, 10:22 AM

a lot of us don't always wear glasses. it was just very striking to see someone so made up on the trail. conspicuous.
:eek: :eek:

Lise

06-06-2006, 10:24 AM

Did she try to make ammends with you after becoming a Buddist? Or is that how she made herself feel good what she did?

She made amends for the violence. She did not make financial amends for the $50K debt she said she'd pay, on which promise she reniged (certainly that's not how to spell that word!). I hear she and new partner provide financial support to Buddist projects. I'm sure the monks wouldn't mind her paying off the project she left in my lap first. :rolleyes:

I don't think anybody "does anything to deserve" any of this. I think there are charming, irresponsible, selfish people in the world, and some of us "fall in love with" them. I know I blinded myself to reality by keeping a fantasy of what should be happening in front of my eyes. I will not make certain mistakes again...but I've gone on to make others! Ah, being human...

Nanci

06-06-2006, 10:42 AM

Great, so now I just read an article about how important it is to protect your eyes from UV radiation (already knew) and that blue light causes macular degeneration, so don't wear blue lenses and do wear amber lenses. Also, UV protection is clear, darker lenses don't matter. When I had eye surgery, the doc told me to always wear sunglasses, all the time.

KSH

06-06-2006, 10:51 AM

She made amends for the violence. She did not make financial amends for the $50K debt she said she'd pay, on which promise she reniged (certainly that's not how to spell that word!). I hear she and new partner provide financial support to Buddist projects. I'm sure the monks wouldn't mind her paying off the project she left in my lap first. :rolleyes:

I don't think anybody "does anything to deserve" any of this. I think there are charming, irresponsible, selfish people in the world, and some of us "fall in love with" them. I know I blinded myself to reality by keeping a fantasy of what should be happening in front of my eyes. I will not make certain mistakes again...but I've gone on to make others! Ah, being human...

At least she tried to make amends for the violence. Gawd, if any person... male or female... ever even tries to lay a hand me... they better run for their lives. I fight to win. I am so sorry you had to go through that!

OK, I have to say... 50K is worse than 24K... so, I should just be happy it wasn't more... right? 50K is really bad.

Charming, irresponsible and selfish... good way to describe it. I think we... the responsible ones... tend to be drawn to that... for some odd reason.

Yes, fantasy... we only see what we wan to see. For example, when someone told me my ex was cheating... I refused to see it.

Oh well.

Thanks for the reply. I am happy to hear that you are in a better place now.

Brandy

06-06-2006, 10:55 AM

Dear children,

I appreciate that you are so enthusiastic about vermicomposting. Could you do me a favor though? When you go out in the back to visit the little wormies, could you make sure that you close the back door before you take the lid off of the compost bin? I really don't enjoy having three hundred and thirty eight fruit flies in the house.

Love,
Mom

mtkitchn

06-06-2006, 03:55 PM

Bad things certainly happen to good people, and good things happen to bad people. All we can control is OUR response.
Some of these recent posts remind of times spent in my own bitter world of "why me". Thank God I stopped the madness, picked myself up, and got MY life together solo before finding my DH, who is my equal in all. If I thought about the old days much I'd probably break down.

But maybe I have some unfinished business in me:

Dear ex-boyfriend of 1986-8:

Thank goodness the black eyes and busted sternum and countless other bruises have healed. Hope it felt good to beat up a woman, especially a young one with very little self confidence. When I finally left the state and you slit your wrists, I wish you'd done a better job.
If I was you, I'd be thanking SOMEBODY that I don't know where you live, because if I ever saw your pathetic carcass again, I'd probably kill you with my bare hands. You are the only human being on this earth that I actually HATE. After almost twenty years, it's amazing that I still DO hate you for those two years of hell. May you rot and find nothing but misery.
Hugs and Kisses,
Sue

Thank goodness I don't think of those years too often....:eek:
Brings out an ugly side I forgot I had!!!! Life sure is better now!!!

doc

06-06-2006, 04:28 PM

MtKitchn

Wow. I am so glad you managed to get yourself out of that world. Some women spend years and years, sometimes their whole lives there.

The two lowest life forms: wife beaters (by which I mean any male who bullies/rapes/abuses women) and child molesters. There must be a special hell for them.

You are right about reality though. No one can control whether they get a raw deal or a good deal. And deals are not handed out based on need or what you "deserve". We can only control the choices we make ourselves. You should be incredibly proud of the massively difficult choices you made so many years ago. And continue to make.

Lise

06-06-2006, 07:58 PM

mtk--broken sternum. Wow. You have to hit hard to do that. I'm sorry.

the woman who punched/choked/shoved/belittled/etc me was horribly abused as a child. My desire to be the one who healed her, saved her, made it all worth living for was so strong that I stayed and "took it" for 5 years. I've since come to see how grandiose and downright wrong that thinking is. Now, when I go out with someone who's telling me some story about how he is/was the "victim" of something, I get away as fast as I can. Cuz I know that when I can't fix it for him, it'll be my fault. I feel like I've got that lession in my bones.

Hearing your stories makes me think, once again, that you just don't know what that woman riding the bike has gone through to be as strong and hopeful as she is, cruising down the road.

Ride on, ladies. Now we're free. L.

bikerz

06-06-2006, 09:14 PM

Hearing your stories makes me think, once again, that you just don't know what that woman riding the bike has gone through to be as strong and hopeful as she is, cruising down the road. Ride on, ladies. Now we're free. L.
Wow. Way to bring it home, Lise - nicely said.

crazycanuck

06-07-2006, 03:52 AM

Dear whomever,

Thank you for allowing the above women to be here with us.

I just wanna say that i'm proud of you ladies for leaving the people that made life ****. You're tough chickies and i admire any woman for being strong enough to stand up for themselves.

Who needs a famous person to be a hero when we have our own on this board.

Thanks ladies

c

betagirl

06-07-2006, 04:12 AM

Dear Betagirl,

I'm probably going to have nightmares due to you and your monkeys.

Disturbedly,

Nanci

Dear Nanci,

I'd help you out with that, but they don't let me practice psychology yet :D

Betagirl

"Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!" - Charleton Heston

betagirl

06-07-2006, 04:16 AM

Dear bowels,

You're acting funny the past week. It's probably something I ate, but....KNOCK IT OFF. You may think you're going to flare up on me, but that's just not an option. I'm still working on that organ exchange with someone to replace you. I hear someone is shopping around for a new pancreas. Watch it.

Me

Lise

06-07-2006, 04:18 AM

Dear Nanci,

I'd help you out with that, but they don't let me practice psychology yet :D

Betagirl

"Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!" - Charleton Heston

It's a madhouse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's my favorite line from Planet of the Apes. And I believe it applies here.
...............................
and thanks, bz & cc. It sure makes one appreciate the peace and quiet.

mtkitchn

06-07-2006, 04:54 AM

the woman who punched/choked/shoved/belittled/etc me was horribly abused as a child. My desire to be the one who healed her, saved her, made it all worth living for was so strong that I stayed and "took it" for 5 years. I've since come to see how grandiose and downright wrong that thinking is. Now, when I go out with someone who's telling me some story about how he is/was the "victim" of something, I get away as fast as I can. Cuz I know that when I can't fix it for him, it'll be my fault. I feel like I've got that lession in my bones.

Hearing your stories makes me think, once again, that you just don't know what that woman riding the bike has gone through to be as strong and hopeful as she is, cruising down the road.

Ride on, ladies. Now we're free. L.

Sorry it took so much pain for you to learn that life lesson, Lise!! But you are so right, we're free now!
I'll tell you, it never ceases to amaze me the past stories of the women I meet. You sure can't judge a book by its cover. Lotsa women who have been to hell and back but carry themselves as if their life has been as charmed as Paris Hilton's. I don't know who ever said woman was the weaker sex. Not true at all.

Geonz

06-07-2006, 06:06 AM

Dear white sedan, DFX 645:
For I believe the second time, this morning you passed me on Green Street honking aggressively and pointing emphatically at the bike path to our right.
I understand that you would like me to be on that bikepath instead of on Green STreet, where you are forced to use the (clear) left lane to pass me. (Perhaps you would simply like me to cease to exist. Thankfully, others disagree.)
Do you understand that I am proceeding further west, and that the path ends (less than 100 yards from here) where you turn right on Wright Street?
If I were to use the bicycle path, I would be getting in a right-most lane... to the *right* of a right-turn-only lane... and then proceeding straight. Any guide towards road use directs drivers (and I am a driver of a vehicle, both legally and practically) not to do this, for what I hope are obvious reasons. (When I am turning right at that intersection, I often do use the bike path - though not when it is torn up by construction or has vehicles parked on it, as is often the case.)
Places where paths and roads meet are by far the most common accident sites between bicycles and cars. "I just didn't see you!" is the common - and usually accurate - plea as we are "appearing from nowhere" as you turn right, proceeding faster than pedestrians. The "right hook" where a car turning right strikes a vehicle going straight is the m ost common of these accidents.
Thank you for passing me with ample room. While I appreciate your right to express your opinion about my whereabouts, kindly consider that while you're honking and gesticulating, you might miss something else happening on the road.
Well-designed bicycle routes can be a benefit to everyone. Sadly, the paths in CHampaign do not fit this category.
I received your message...here's mine.

mtkitchn

06-07-2006, 08:57 AM

Dear Husband,
Please be understanding when you get home from work today and find that I ate all of the tapioca pudding you bought and were hiding from me. It was so tasty I couldn't help myself.:(

fixedgeargirl

06-07-2006, 10:59 AM

Hearing your stories makes me think, once again, that you just don't know what that woman riding the bike has gone through to be as strong and hopeful as she is, cruising down the road.

Ride on, ladies. Now we're free. L.

Thanks, Lise. That sums it up so nicely. Tailwinds to us all :) .

fixedgeargirl

06-07-2006, 11:06 AM

Dear attorney for my XH,

I hope that you can see through his manic fixations and control freak tendencies and guide him to choices which are actually in the best interest of our son. I know, it's a gargantuan task, but you are a professional and, unlike him, you actually know how the laws read.

While you're at it, could you please explain to him that just because his mommy pays all his bills doesn't mean that she is a party in our custody suit? Are you shaking your head in wonderment every time she attends one of his meetings with you? I sure am.

Yours,

The Person Who Has Actually Been Actively Parenting My Son His Entire Life

While we're at it...

Dear Judge of the 53rd Circuit,

Please see through my XH's BS and render a fair judgement tomorrow. I really hope I get to hear you tell him that he doesn't get to choose how I parent my son or what I do in my own home.

Thanks,

Nervous Court First-Timer

Lise

06-07-2006, 11:45 AM

Good luck in court tomorrow, FGG. Let us know how it goes. L.

Tuckervill

06-07-2006, 01:12 PM

Dear Fixedgear girl,

I hope you have recruited a support person for you to go to court with you tomorrow.

Know that I will be sitting beside you in spirit, telling you that you are doing just fine. Don't be afraid to speak up for what's right, "even if your voice shakes." You can do it.

Karen

dachshund

06-07-2006, 01:51 PM

Dear Universe,

I’m impressed by your sense of humor, and your impeccable timing. And that touch of irony, which is so special.

You presented me with the wonderful option of cycling again, something that I loved twenty years ago. I now live in the midst of some of the best cycling routes in the Bay Area. This time I have: The Internet. I researched, I found this great forum, I rode some bikes, and I bought a shiny, lovely new bike. I have gazillions of flat “creek trails” right near my house, for getting started. Thank you, thank you!

Three days later you gave me the flu. I’ve had this now for a solid week.

I really appreciate good sarcasm, but:
Are ya done now?? Had yer fun? Can we please move on???

Your admiring fan,
Amy

Nanci

06-07-2006, 03:54 PM

betagirl

06-07-2006, 04:04 PM

Dear Jon Stewart & Stephen Colbert,

Thanks for making me laugh til I about pee every time I watch your shows. And while your shows are "fake news" your biting commentary is some of the best around and incredibly refreshing.

A fan

Lise

06-07-2006, 04:16 PM

Dear Wind,

Thank you for blowing the same direction all day! I know you generally like to mix it up a bit more, blowing against my route, no matter what direction that might be. I could handle the headwind going to work. I was less psyched about the same headwind when I left work to go farther north. But when I turned around to come home, and you were at my back! Oh! The delight! Thank you so very much! :D L.

snapdragen

06-07-2006, 04:36 PM

Dear lump in my armpit, thank you for being a bug bite, and nothing more:o

That'll teach me to sleep with my arms over my head.....

Duck on Wheels

06-07-2006, 05:48 PM

Dear Whoever Cares,

I am so glad I don't live with Bikeless in Wisconsin and have to eat my choice of lutefisk or liver...

My frozen Michael Angelo's Chicken Picatta and Uncle Bens Garlic Herb Rice was so excellent, enjoyed on the patio with Dillbird and the tortoise babies.

Nanci

It's ok Nanci. I don't share my liver with others; I know most people don't appreciate it. And dh only makes lutefisk for a circle of afficionados. If you're ever here, or anywhere else I happen to be cooking, it'll be something else -- like leg of lamb with garlic and rosemary; or whole baked salmon stuffed with garlic butter, peas and carrots; or turkey with lemon and rosemary under the skin; or a mixed seafood chowder starting with mussels steamed in white wine. Oh, and apple pie. As Trek420 can confirm, our mom has a very special and locally famous recipe for apple pie ... and has shared her secret with us.

DrBee

06-07-2006, 06:01 PM

It's ok Nanci. I don't share my liver with others; I know most people don't appreciate it. And dh only makes lutefisk for a circle of afficionados. If you're ever here, or anywhere else I happen to be cooking, it'll be something else -- like leg of lamb with garlic and rosemary; or whole baked salmon stuffed with garlic butter, peas and carrots; or turkey with lemon and rosemary under the skin; or a mixed seafood chowder starting with mussels steamed in white wine. Oh, and apple pie. As Trek420 can confirm, our mom has a very special and locally famous recipe for apple pie ... and has shared her secret with us.

Dear Bikeless in WI,

Can I come for dinner, too? That sounds very yummy! It definitely sounds better than the lutefisk

Fishdr

Duck on Wheels

06-07-2006, 06:12 PM

Dear Bikeless in WI,

Can I come for dinner, too? That sounds very yummy! It definitely sounds better than the lutefisk

Fishdr

If you or Nanci or any other TE pals are ever in my vicinity, just give a holler. Dinner here in Madison would be pretty simple, since the kitchen is pretty rudimentary. And in California I'd have to ask permission to borrow my mom's kitchen. But in Norway I can whip up a good meal any day I'm home, given a couple days' notice to shop and make time. :)

Trek420

06-07-2006, 06:36 PM

betagirl

I too like Jon Stewart (sorry to go OT)

Poor former Reagan Secretary of Education Bill Bennett was on the Daily Show the other night and Jon just beat him unmercifully. All Bennett could do was sputter and look like a fool.

TE,

Bikeless and UK got the cooking gene from my Mom. They are incredible cooks.... Actualy even my Dad baked. Pictured here are some lovely challah dinner rolls that UK baked.

I cooked professionaly for years but rarely do any of that now.

But I love to prep, it's odd I know but if you want anything sliced, diced, grated, slivered....and unlike a Cuisinart you don't have to clean me :)

Fixgeargirl,

You are in all of our thoughts.

Fixgeargirls ex,

Your Momma can't help you now. Grow up or get out.

Geonz

06-07-2006, 06:52 PM

Dear wind:

How come you were nice a few miles north and switched on us tonight? Trying to make me think twice about riding Big Red on GITAP, huh? 37 miles is a long way to go on the strength of two handfuls of peanuts in the afternoon and that fig bar en route... even Richard on the 195? Schwinn CORVETTE dropped me! (Okay, he's strong ;-))

And thank you, minute maid fruit punch, for going down so easy :-)

Hearts with ya, fixedgear...

Bring on the liver... no, I thnk not, not on an empty stomach...

Duck on Wheels

06-07-2006, 07:07 PM

Dear court scheduler,
Please make sure that the judge Fixgeargirl meets is one of those with a healthy dose of common sense. I know there are enough of them to choose from.
Yours,
Judicial optimist

Dear fixie,
Have courage, and good luck! You and your son both deserve it!
Yours,
Another vitual biker friend

KnottedYet

06-07-2006, 08:58 PM

Dear Fixie-
I'm rooting for you, too. XH and his momma sound like real winners...not.

Aggie_Ama

06-07-2006, 09:18 PM

Dear Austin Judge,

Please continue the Texas tradition of ruling in favor of the mother (meaning FGG, not her X-MIL) and have some common sense!

-A native Texan putting blind faith in our courts

FGG- I hope it all works out tomorrow!

betagirl

06-08-2006, 03:02 AM

Dear throat,

You started hurting last night and this morning isn't any better. If it is something like strep or the like, make sure you get it over with rather quickly.

Legs

crazycanuck

06-08-2006, 05:08 AM

Dear judge,

YOu'd better be fair to our Fixedgeargirl or you'll have a hundred woman jumping up and down wanting to run over you with thier bikes..It hurts to be clomped on with spiky shoes & a mtn bike...

Dear feet,

Can you move just a tiny bit faster??? I don't want to be the sloooowwwest runner out there forever..

Dear rocks

be nice to me & renee on the eagle trail this weekend...

c

mtbdarby

06-08-2006, 05:58 AM

Bikeless,
I'll be in the Baraboo area this weekend - what time is supper???? I haven't had a home cooked meal since my crash. Still can't get in until Monday - ughh!

mimitabby

06-08-2006, 07:35 AM

Dear old beater pickup driver
thanks for reminding me never to make generalizations about rude drivers always being in Pickup trucks. I was riding to work
today and had to get into the left lane to make a left turn. Huge SUV's and trucks kept blasting by me and it looked like i was going to miss my turn.
You stopped and let me pass into your lane so I could turn left. I was so surprised. (the fact is that 100 feet further ahead (the next intersection) there was a red light
and no one was going anywhere anyway!)
Thank you for your courtesy.

mtkitchn

06-08-2006, 07:38 AM

Dear Ann Coulter,

I THOUGHT that was you fingering dresses at Hookers-R-US!

Anyway...HEY,

I know you don't have any class, but do you think you could pick up a shred of human decency? No? Thought not, but figured I'd ask.

Sincerely,

A big fan (not)

Kimmyt

06-08-2006, 09:07 AM

Dear Rain,

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.

K.

dachshund

06-08-2006, 09:48 AM

Dear Ann Coulter,

Agreed, she's scary.
Sometimes I wonder, "who are these people, and why would anyone want to get into politics?"

mimitabby

06-08-2006, 09:56 AM

Agreed, she's scary.
Sometimes I wonder, "who are these people, and why would anyone want to get into politics?"

I wonder, what is this person(coulter) and why would anyone pay her money to open her mouth!

Geonz

06-08-2006, 10:01 AM

They're endorphin deprived. They need to ride more, with no winners and losers (not so much epinephrine). It's all in the hormones!

redrhodie

06-08-2006, 11:32 AM

Dear Michael Berg,

Thanks for not letting your loss ruin your beliefs.

Dianyla

06-08-2006, 11:34 AM

Dear Michael Berg,

Thanks for not letting your loss ruin your beliefs.
Yeah, I just read that on CNN - I thought the interview was amazing.

slinkedog

06-08-2006, 11:47 AM

Dear Arnold:

Since I'd rather look at your mug for the next 4 years than Phil Angelides', could you please get a political clue?

A Constituent who actually voted on Tuesday :rolleyes:

Nanci

06-08-2006, 11:48 AM

Duck on Wheels

06-08-2006, 04:19 PM

Bikeless,
I'll be in the Baraboo area this weekend - what time is supper???? I haven't had a home cooked meal since my crash. Still can't get in until Monday - ughh!
'Fraid I don't know where Baraboo is, though I gather it's nearby. Are you serious about supper? I could do Saturday or Sunday evening. Just say the word and I'll PM you the address. :)

latelatebloomer

06-08-2006, 05:18 PM

Dear Bicycling Goddess,

Can I please have fun on my bike again really soon? Surely you've noticed by now that I'm willing to get out there and try to work past my fears. I miss the old feeling of strength and happiness on my bike so much. It doesn't seem fair that I should work so hard to get that feeling - only to lose it. I'm doing my best down here, I really am, but it's such slow going - can you sprinkle a little pixie dust or something?

the meekly-riding (but un-surrendering) LLB

mtkitchn

06-09-2006, 08:59 AM

Dear Children

Please take care of your elderly parents' toenails/feet, or arrange for someone else to do it. How would you like to have your feet in that condition? Plus, it's dangerous to health care workers, who might get scraped/stabbed by toenails, like I just did.

Thank you.

Nanci

Nanci,
You are so right! My father in law (Alzheimer's) has toenails that grow like weeds. I got tired don't like clipping them so we take him for pedicures now! It's awesome (got his first pedicure at age 83).

maillotpois

06-09-2006, 09:33 AM

DrBee

06-09-2006, 11:03 AM

Dear roads paved in black,

Why couldn't you have been paved in a nice tan color? On my lunchtime ride today (90F actual temp/99F real feel temp) I could feel the waves of heat that you were belching at me...over and over again.

Sincerely,
I'm hot!!!!!

Beth-Ro

06-09-2006, 11:13 AM

Dear doctor's office staff,

While I appreciate your "sweet voice" on the phone this morning when I called, it doesn't help me if you won't give me an appointment. All I need is a strep test...any lab tec could do it...then a little shot of penicillin if I do indeed have strep. Since my oldest daughter had strep last week, and since my youngest daughter played with our tooth brushes and switched them (I'm sorry momma, I didn't mean too), I'm willing to bet that I do have strep. And seeing how I am a 41 year old mother of 3 children, I do know what strep feels like and looks like.

Referring me to the urgent care clinic in the next town does not help me. It will take several hours and most likely at least $200.00 to take care of this down there. And since I just drove by your office and there are 3 cars in the entire lot, I'm willing to bet you did have time to see me, you just don't want to hang around on a Friday to do it. And thanks in many ways to you, my vacation is getting off to a lousy start.

Regards,
Beth-who hates getting the brush off-Ro :mad:

fixedgeargirl

06-09-2006, 11:31 AM

Dear XH's attorney,

You turned out to be more reasonable than I expected, given that the original waiver of service you sent me (with a 7 day deadline to be signed, notarized and returned to your office) had me waiving my right to enter testimony :eek: . (And that whited-out part at the top of the suit that read "And Original Petition for Fraud." What was that all about?) You seem quite aware of the extraordinary nature of MIL's involvement in her 46 year old son's life. I can only assume you talked some sense into him. Or you were at least were able to overcome the false assumptions of the Texas Family Code he had been fed by *someone* :cool: .

Thanks to the efforts of you and my attorney, we were able to avoid having an actual hearing. We reached compromise, which is probably one of the first times for X, not having had a family model of same. Of course, this was only a Temporary Orders hearing, and we have a long way to go yet, but I am grateful that getting to this point was not as contentious as it could have been. I am looking forward to the peace of living without him breathing down my neck, trying to dictate how I parent my child. He has sought help. I only hope he will do the work it takes to make the help actually work.

Yours Until Final Orders Time,

fixedgeargirl

mimitabby

06-09-2006, 11:46 AM

great news, fixedgeargirl;
proof again to not make generalities about pickuptruck drivers or attorneys or whatever!

crazybikinchic

06-09-2006, 07:50 PM

dear lungs,

Life is to short to live it waiting for the next shoe to drop. Therefore, I encourage you to act right and not make me sick next week. I am only doing 22 miles just for you.

Thankfully yours,
the rest of body

Kitsune06

06-17-2006, 07:24 PM

Dear a*sh**e who stole my iPod:

Koorogi was my companion. It had music from all the many stages of my life on it, and countless memories. On that iPod, I could tell you so many landmarks in my life- the song that was playing when I touched my husband the first time, the song that was playing when I was thrown off my bike into a tree (and it never skipped!) My first Pink Floyd. My first techno cd. The graduation song from my high school. The songs that played as my husband and I talked all night long... the night we decided to part ways. The song that played as I danced behind my girlfriend and thought about how I could tell her how beautiful I thought she was- without coming off like a dork. ...the songs that helped me through the dark times I had after moving away from everything I knew, and the songs that brought me back to life like a phoenix.

I know you'll only get about $75 for it at a local pawn shop, and you'll probably use the money to pay for your meth habit, which is punishment enough because your teeth are probably rotten from it, and you're desperate for your addiction, but was it really worth breaking into our cars at 4am down some dusty little gravel road?

Mr thief, I want you to know that even though I'm not a christian, I forgive you... but the next time you come to our house, if my partner sees you again and I can make it downstairs before you get to your car, I will have a baseball bat waiting for you, and lemme tell ya, I can book it.

However, thank you for not having the time to steal my bike. The iPod I miss, but I would have been devastated at the loss of my bike. It was the first time I had it unlocked in six months, because I took her for a quick ride that morning, only 6 miles through the hills, cleaned her chains and set her next to my partner's bentup little steed... and after you ran off, I saw her leaned up next to the carport's wall.

You're a dirty man, with a lousy life, but don't steal my sh*t to make up for it or prolong your addiction.:mad:

SadieKate

06-17-2006, 07:45 PM

Dear Bubba,

You are such a sweetheart. You take my flights of fancy and verbal vagueness in stride and translate it into a functional working object. I now have a lovely board in the back of the Bike Bus that allows me to carry 2 bikes inside when I'd prefer not to use an outside rack. It even has feet to wedge it in place and recessed bolts.

Must be why I call you Mr. Wonderful.;)

SK

PS - Dear Mr and Mrs. Bob - thanks for the fork mounts. :D

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b310/SadieKate/BubbaBoard.jpg

snapdragen

06-17-2006, 07:47 PM

And it's PINK!:D

You are such a sweetheart. You take my flights of fancy and verbal vagueness in stride and translate it into a functional working object. I now have a lovely board in the back of the Bike Bus that allows me to carry 2 bikes inside when I'd prefer not to use an outside rack. It even has feet to wedge it in place and recessed bolts.

Must be why I call you Mr. Wonderful.;)

crazycanuck

06-17-2006, 07:48 PM

We have our bikes set up the same way!!!

Great minds think alike???
c

SadieKate

06-17-2006, 07:52 PM

Even down to the pink? :o

You should see the bottom of the board. He recessed everything so no bolts will damage anything and there are feet to wedge it into place. He translates SK-babble very well.

withm

06-18-2006, 12:19 PM

Dear makers of Nyquil,

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

It's a gorgeous weekend and my friend was coming down to join me on the Leap Frog ride, and to go kayaking, and cook out but I woke up sick on Friday and had to cancel the whole thing. So between drifting from the numerous naps on the couch and checking what the healthy TE folks are doing I sit and reflect how you well you let me sleep. As if the daytime sleeping weren't enough, with your help I can sleep all night cough-free. My fever is way down today and I'm still congested and have no voice but I felt so much better today than yesterday that I did ride my bike over to the bike shop today to get the tires replaced. (De-laminating with only 800 miles on them???) Went next door and picked up the Sunday papers, and then rode home. The ride was all of about 3/4 of a mile RT and I'm exhausted from the effort. So I'll just have another swig of your elixir and go back to bed and let the magic continue.

Please don't ever change your formula!

mimitabby

06-18-2006, 01:32 PM

Dear Daddy

I wish you were alive and healthy today so I could wish you a happy father's day!
Love
your daughter
mimi

kelownagirl

06-18-2006, 02:59 PM

Dear Daddy

I wish you were alive and healthy today so I could wish you a happy father's day!
Love
your daughter
mimi

Awww, me too.... :(

Kitsune06

06-18-2006, 03:07 PM

Dear B*tchcakes,

You are the sweetest little bike ever, and I will never tire of taking you out on the roads, paths, tracks and trails where you show me your stuff. You've carried me faithfully for miles and miles, and I'm so grateful.

I'm sorry I let you get dusty and your chain a little rusty over this winter, but it wasn't an easy time for me, either. We still had fun riding through the snow at Brown's Camp, didn't we?

So... I promise, as soon as I can afford it, I'll get you all trued, tightened, straightened and lubed, and we'll go out again.

Until then, can you please get by on my own little amounts of maintenance?

Thanks, and lots of love,
-Kitsune

Lise

06-18-2006, 03:10 PM

Awww, me too.... :(
Me three. L.

Nanci

06-18-2006, 04:24 PM

Me four. I miss my parents so much. I was thinking about my dad a lot last night when we were over at some friends' looking at pics of their trip to Washington and the WWII War Memorial. My dad didn't die in that war, but he (and my mom) were there when Pearl Harbor was bombed, (they ate dinner on the Arizona the night before!!!) at the start of the war, and he was there at the end. He was a decoder. When I was a kid, I had all this weird Japanese money to play with, that he brought home from the war. Also, in my bedroom is a teak chest that he bought for my mom in Hawaii, where he was stationed, before they sent all the wives home on a cruise ship. My mom (also passed away) had a job putting enough parts in a body bag to make an entire soldier. When I knew her, you never would have guessed. All you guys that have your parents still alive- you are so lucky.

Nanci

Lise

06-18-2006, 04:33 PM

Not surprisingly, Nanci's parents were also very cool! What great stories.

My dad died in 1965 of a brain tumor. He was 35 years old, a high school history teacher and varsity baseball coach. I was 5 when he died, my brother was 2, and my sister 10 months old. He was known for being a slooow runner around the bases; he joked about it himself. I take comfort that it's genetic. I cannot imagine what life would've been like had I grown up with him. Not perfect, but different. To have been able to look to my dad for protection and approval as a little kid would've put a different spin on my personality, no doubt. He was a smart, funny, loving, generous man. He should have been here longer.

Nanci

06-18-2006, 04:44 PM

My dad was an engineer. He was the kind of guy that could fix anything. I mean anything! I lived in fear of using a tool from his basement workshop and not returning it to its place. When he died, when the minister read the eulogy, he talked about how my dad would be so excited to get to heaven, how he would have been so interested in "the mystery" of it all. When my mom died, I thought, how could the minister ever come up with a eulogy as memorable, and close to home, as that of my father, of my mother, who was a stay-at-home mom (they all were, then) but he talked about what a caregiver she was, how other peoples' needs were what she lived for. It's so true- how do they think of what to say...The program from her funeral is still in the pocket of that long black dress coat I wore- I never look at it, but I feel it when I wear that coat...

Isn't it weird, how you can dream about your parents any night, and it is just like they are still alive?

You guys that still have them- treasure every moment- that's all I can say.

Duck on Wheels

06-18-2006, 05:11 PM

I need to call my Mom tonight. This is the second Father's Day since my Dad died of prostate cancer. He was a wonderful, peaceful, patient, and funny man. Also smart and ... oh, the list could go on and on.

Trek420

06-18-2006, 06:49 PM

Yes he was, a wonderful man, I miss him every day.

Lise

06-24-2006, 04:50 AM

Dear Summer Solstice,

Thank you for coming around, even though I don't believe it can possibly happen through the long, wet, cold, dark season in the eastern midwest part of this major land mass. Every winter solstice, I bravely tell myself to hang on, that we get one more minute of light a day, but I'm just whistling in the dark to keep my hopes up.

By April I know it will never be warm again. Then yesterday I got to start out on my bike at 6PM, ride hard for an hour, sit on the grass by the lake, look back on my beautiful city, relaxed and easy, stretch my back, eat my Sport Beans, help another cyclist with her tire, and ride back, hard as I could...all in the beautiful sunlight and perfect temperature.

Thank you for the hope with which you fill my heart. L.

hibiscus09

06-24-2006, 04:55 AM

I miss my mother and father bunches also. My mom died about 15 years ago (unbelievable -- it doesn't seem like that long ago) of esophageal cancer. She never smoked, drank, etc. -- just bad luck. My dad died around 12 years ago -- he was 80.

I was so close to both of them. I'm the youngest of 14 children and it just really felt strange when we had no leaders left to guide the clan. We're still all very close, however, and I know I'll get to see my parents again one day. :)

mtkitchn

06-24-2006, 06:15 AM

I haven't read a lot of these threads in a while, and the bit about the dads got to me too. I miss my dad tremendously, and it's funny, like Nanci said, that we can still dream about our departed ones as if they're still here!

So Dear Dad,
Hope you're doing well, wherever you are. Hope you're fishing a lot and doing the things you like to do and hanging out with all your family. Hope I see you WAY down the road!

KnottedYet

06-24-2006, 06:41 AM

I miss mine, too. He was so calm and level-headed. And wise. Things come up that I wish I could talk to him about and get his take. He didn't talk much, but what he said was always good. Or deeply funny. He had a crazy dry wit. And he loved my son dearly.

SKnot probably won't remember him as he grows up, and that's what makes me cry.

Lifesgreat

06-24-2006, 08:38 AM

Dear women I saw riding today:

I am SO excited you were exercising. You were out with your friends in your sweats, road riding on your mountain bikes, usually in groups of two. You were enjoying the cool morning air and catching up on your friends' life. Just a casual ride. Isn't cycling great?

Please don't take this wrong, but PLEASE wear a helmet. I don't want you to miss a single minute of the wonderful lives you lead because you are dead or have a brain injury.

Come on, women! All the men riders I saw were wearing helmets, but none of you women riders were wearing one, except for my group. Granted, helmets can mess up the 'do, but so can a head injury.

Sincerely,

A concerned woman

MomOnBike

06-24-2006, 08:45 AM

Father's day doesn't make me weepy for my Dad, it's October and hunting season that does it for me. Some of my best memories with my Dad involve a dead deer or elk - or one that got away. (Yeah, I'm pretty redneck)

He taught me how to change a bike tire, the difference between a flat and phillips screwdriver, how to shift a car (going up mountain passes, I was in charge of shifting, he just worked the clutch), how to ride and train a horse, and gave me quite a (ahem) strong vocabulary.

The thing is, he's not my genetic father, but my siblings didn't find out 'til they were grown. It didn't matter to him, I was his, no matter how I got there. I apprecitate that.

salsabike

06-24-2006, 09:02 AM

Duck on Wheels

06-24-2006, 02:25 PM

Me too for the gazillionith time. I love hearing about all your dads. Also, you surprised some tears right out of my eyes!

Dear Daddy,

Man, do I miss you. I think about you every day and it doesn't seem at all like ten years have gone by since you died. I miss your intellect (who else could start a Scrabble game with "equinox"?), your wit, your incredibly clever and erudite limericks, your heart and soul, your concern about and interest in everything ("You got HOW MANY inches of snow in Seattle??"), your wisdom and humanity. I couldn't have had a more wonderful human being for a dad. I will never not miss you.

Wow! That's, what ... 120 points in the opening move? Maybe more. I'm assuming he got the x or the q on a double, but there may have been another double in there. Plus double word for the whole thing, and 50 for scrabbling. My dad experimented with 3D scrabble (where a word could go out one side of the board and continue from the opposite side as if it had wrapped around the back. If you were really lucky, you could triple a word 3 times. But eventually Mom and Dad dropped that experiment because it "clogged" up the board so fast. They also had a non-competitive rule, where they played for max total score.

Your Dad sounds like a fine person, a lot like Trek420's and mine. Weren't we all lucky to have 'em!!

winddance

06-24-2006, 07:48 PM

Dear downstairs neighbors,

I'm a pretty tolerant person. I've put up with a lot in my life, having been an RA during college with the getting woken up at 3am because some idiot forgot their keys at the library which is three blocks away and open 24 hours and "didn't want to go back to get them"...oh, do I sound bitter?

It's probably because I have never had the misfortune of living around such inconsiderate people. You burn incense and blow cigarette smoke into my apartment. You have loud parties. You prop open the front door to our secure building to let your friends into these loud parties.

I'm okay with noise up to a certain point. I mean, it's weekend. This isn't like the time you had one on a Monday night when 3/4 of the building has to get up and go to work in the morning. I'm all right with it until say 10:30. Then you had best be quieting down or I will absolutely call the management on you and you will be caught (again) in violation of the quiet clause of your lease.

I'm just saying.

No love,
WD

Nanci

06-28-2006, 09:33 AM

Dear Mysterious Doctor Who Didn't Tell Me Your Name,

I am sorry you think you are special and can't follow the written protocol for requirements to be met before calling to schedule a patient. You probably shouldn't have hung up on me. Your life would be so much easier if you helped me conserve my limited resources and just followed the rules...

Nanci

DrBee

06-28-2006, 09:51 AM

Dear personnel office/selecting official,

Whoever has my application, please forward to the appropriate person and have them call me for an interview before I lose my mind anticipating the call. I seem to always have some sort of chaos in my life, but waiting to hear about this job is wearing on me - big time!

Sincerely,
FishDr wanting to be a BzzDr

light_sabe_r

06-28-2006, 08:55 PM

Dear Hospital Building and Maintenence Services.

I do understand you're very busy people. As are we. We're in the middle of researching the cure for type II diabetes. We'd appreciate it next time you warn us when you turn off the VITAL gas supplies we need in order to keep our tissue cultures healthy.

Meanwhile both the research wing and the clinical department are requesting ear muffs. The alarms are getting to much to bear.

DebW

06-29-2006, 12:25 PM

Dear Building and Grounds Manager,

Why, oh why, did you cut down the blueberry bushes outside the office? They had small green berries on them 2 weeks ago. I was hoping for a ripe berry today. But the bushes have been eliminated, chopped down, removed. Why??? Surely they were not in anyone's way, down there by the road on the side of the drive, inside the circle of manicured groundcover and poison ivy. For your information, I must have picked 20 quarts of blueberries off those two bushed last summer, and I shared them with everyone in my office (after I ate my fill of course - you can't expect them ALL to go in the picking bowl). Those berry bushes produced from early July until early September last year. If I got hungry at work and didn't have anything to eat, all I had to do was walk outside and pick berries. They were delicious, and nourishing, and full of anti-oxidants. Did you even realize that they were blueberry bushes before you had them cut down? I bet you didn't even tell the poor schmucks cutting them about the poison ivy.

Your truly,
A building tenant who is going to be hungry and grumpy this summer

chickwhorips

06-29-2006, 02:25 PM

dear bear gods,

can you please stay off the roads so i can go out and get a good ride in. also, can you please stay away from me while i'm trying to hike around with my sister when she gets into town.... i hear the salmon are in the creek, but not the one that i just happen to have a fishing pole next to i swear.

thanks much!

Bad JuJu

06-29-2006, 03:32 PM

Dear three sisters-in-law--Now that you're all grown up, that is, over 50 years old, could one of you just once call your brother just to say "Hi, how are ya, bro? How's life treating you? I love you" instead of ONLY calling when you need money or want him to fix something for you or to move one of your loser boyfriends out of your house? Jeez!

mimitabby

06-30-2006, 06:41 AM

Dear Building and Grounds Manager,

Why, oh why, did you cut down the blueberry bushes outside the office? They had small green berries on them 2 weeks ago. I bet you didn't even tell the poor schmucks cutting them about the poison ivy.

Your truly,
A building tenant who is going to be hungry and grumpy this summer

Geez, Deb, that is awful! What a waste! there's nothing nicer than a blueberry bush.. and now they're gone.

salsabike

07-01-2006, 07:17 AM

Dear Contractor,

Congratulations. It's, like, a week into our house expansion project and you have already managed to find a problem that will raise the cost by $15,000-$30,000. Pretty cool. You just used up all our budgeted surplus in one move. And if you don't get back here soon to clean up the HUGE hole in the yard and the mountains of dirt, I personally will hunt you down and make you watch The Goddess Kring on the local public access channel until you fix the problem. Arrgh.

PS The Goddess Kring is a large young woman who does an odd little show of her own on public access TV that involves weird costumes, lots of make-up and glitter, nudity, candles, cosmic-sounding music, and goofy dancing. It's absolutely bizarre.

snapdragen

07-01-2006, 08:58 AM

PS The Goddess Kring is a large young woman who does an odd little show of her own on public access TV that involves weird costumes, lots of make-up and glitter, nudity, candles, cosmic-sounding music, and goofy dancing. It's absolutely bizarre.

Good lord, has that woman ever worn a bra? Those b00bs are close to her navel!

snapdragen

07-01-2006, 09:49 AM

Dear Comcast Cable TV: Please try to do something about the sound quality. Going from whisper quiet to ear splitting -- on the same channel, within minutes is getting really old.

**anybody out there have a dish? Opinions on Direct TV and Dish Network wanted**

mikki

07-01-2006, 10:11 AM

Dear Board of Registerd Nursing,
Perhaps this is too much to ask, but could you make an effort to streamline the approval process for applicants? I realize that we have spent the previous four years of our lives working toward this goal, and that waiting 10-30 days for the results of our NCLEX examination to post should not be too much to ask. However, one would think that servicing a state reknowned for it's ability to utilize the newest trends in computers, this would be a faster process. Or perhaps you could meerly allow us to use the service offered by the testing people, so that we can at least know that we passed this gods-forsaken-exam- from-Heck!! Please, our sanity is in your hands.

Trek420

07-01-2006, 10:20 AM

Dear Dishnetwork peeps,

Your sound/picture quality and customer service is great.

You never laugh (to my face) when the problem turns out to be "M'am, you have your remote on TV, not SAT" or "M'am is the DVR plugged in? Very good, is there anything else I can help you with? (like how to tie your shoes)".

I'm sure after I'm off the phone you group message the office "hey, got a live one! And she works for .... "* :p

And you're customer service is union and in the US, not that people in India aren't faaaaaabulous and need and deserve good jobs too.

Thank you Dishnetwork guy, OLN was on before I even finished chatting about the Tour with you. :D

Thank you for carrying Free Speach TV and tons of cool educational channels and rural channels too.

Could you please just get Logo so I could catch re-runs of the movie about ALC 5?

*disclosure to TE I work for AT&T, formerly known as SBC, formerly known as Pacific Bell, formerly known as AT&T.....an affiliate of Dish, now back to your regular TE program.

fixedgeargirl

07-01-2006, 06:39 PM

Dear Chatty Cathys,

That sure was a nice ride today, all rural and rolling and little county roads. Um, did you even notice that minute or two when we actually had traffic in both directions at the same time? How about the fact that the oncoming traffic was having to pull over far enough to drive in the weeds on the 18 inch shoulder? Maybe next time you can stop flapping your lips long enough to suck it in and ride single file for a few hundred yards. I didn't mean to be rude when I pulled around and rode away, you seemed like a nice bunch of gals, but I really didn't want anyone assuming I was with you after you drove several vehicles very near the ditch.

Share the road,

fixedgeargirl

Lise

07-01-2006, 09:28 PM

Dear Board of Registerd Nursing,
Perhaps this is too much to ask, but could you make an effort to streamline the approval process for applicants? ...
Hang in there, Mikki. You'll have that thin envelope in your hands very, very soon. (In my day, a thin envelope meant you passed. A thick one meant you were taking the test again.) Then you get to decide you want to be an APN in some specialty and wait for the equivalent of that thin envelope some day...:D ...let me be the first to say: Welcome to the field. You are a nurse. You just don't have the paper quite yet. L.

Brandy

07-01-2006, 09:37 PM

Dear people with firecrackers and fireworks in Huntington Beach,

It's not 4th of July yet. They're banned here. You're freaking my dog out. You suck.

Love,

grumpy lady on the corner

arnaew

07-02-2006, 01:43 AM

Dear Jan,
Since I first started watching the TDF (1998) I have admired you. You live this crazy lifestyle, where during the off season you enjoy your food, your wine, your child and whatever else is going. Then you get back on the bike, and just grind out the miles getting ready for the Giro and the TDF. And you get there. Last year I saw you in France; I saw you standing on the podium and (in the privacy of this forum) while I admired what you had done thus far in the TDF, for the first time, looking at you standing so tall in your T-Mobile strip, I had thoughts unbecoming to a 50 year old lady (whose children were standing nearby). Jan, I am devastated from every angle; professionally, sportingly (is that a word?), as a fan, as an admirer, as someone who looked up to you. Say it ain't so, Jan, say it ain't so.
A

kiwi in oz

07-02-2006, 07:19 AM

Dear employment agency, research centre and human research ethics board,

Thanks for approving my research proposal, for finding me the perfect job, and for the part time research work. I really appreciate it after being in a foreign land for the past 6 months trying to sort all this stuff out. Thanks for approving everything - and pressuring me to start everything RIGHT NOW - three weeks before I go home to visit my father who has cancer - and the week I am dealing with separating from my partner - the man who might just be the reason I am not in my home country. Maybe I should be thanking you all for giving me plenty of distractions?

Thanks,

A (who is hoping she may at least get stress-skinny out of this!).

emily_in_nc

07-02-2006, 04:47 PM

Dear UPS Driver,

Why did you put in the tracking information for my Titus Racer-X mountain bike that was due to be delivered this past Friday that "recipient was not available to sign for package, will try again Monday"? My husband was at home all day! Did you perhaps want to start your fourth of July holiday a bit early? The bike was one hour away from my house at the UPS distribution center at 2 pm on Thursday, so why oh why do I have to wait until Monday to get it?

Don't you know how women get when we are awaiting the delivery of a bike?? And are pre-menstrual to boot?! :confused:

Sincerely,
An anxious customer

P.S. Don't let this happen again. :mad:

MomOnBike

07-02-2006, 05:08 PM

Dear Lemonaide Stand Kids:

Thank you for setting up your stands near the middle of hills. Thank you for being so earnest and careful making change. Thank you for making good COLD lemonaide.

You are one of the few good things about summer riding.

Lise

07-02-2006, 05:57 PM

Dear Decision Makers of Lake Zurich, Illinois:

BLECH! Again I say to you: Blech! I stamp my feet at you! I make mad faces! :mad: :mad: :mad: Also ARGH!!!

I love the Lake Zurich Triathlon that is held in your little town every August! It is the focal point of my training! This year I was going to get to do it withOUT my dear friends (whom I love a lot but who can't be bothered to train yet want to do a triathlon so I end up waiting for them in every transition so we can finish together)!

I've been checking the tri's website diligently for on-line registration. I was not freaked out that it wasn't up yet, this is not a fancy tri, so the website isn't always up to date. But today it says "2006 Race Cancelled Due To Road Construction". This stinks! I'm sure our tri is low on your priority list. Maybe it's not even anybody in Lake Zurich who makes these decisions. Maybe I should be stamping my foot and making mad faces :mad: at the Great State of Illinois and their Dept of Trans.

I am very disappointed. I will take my tri-butt north of the border and do the Pleasant Prairie Tri the next weekend in Wisconsin. I will be back to do your tri in 2007. The roads had better be FABULOUS!!!

Disappointedly yours,

L.

Nanci

07-02-2006, 06:11 PM

Dear _my_ UPS guy-

Unlike the other one, thank you for telling me exactly when my new bike, Lava, would arrive from far away California last summer. Thank you for offering to put her in the shed for me if I wasn't home so she would be safe. Thank you for always being friendly, and interested in my rides, and always looking out for my packages. I miss you when you're not on my route for a while.

Nanci

fixedgeargirl

07-03-2006, 05:56 PM

Dear Little Hometown in the Mountains,

I miss you so much that I cry. Especially this time of year. I'll sure be thinking of you tomorrow as I miss yet another fabulous Fourth complete with log sawing competitions and street dancing and the water fight down by 2nd Street. Sure, I'll see you for a couple of weeks at the end of the month, but that just ain't enough. Tell everybody there to pray to the spirit of their choice that DS and I will be able to live there again sooner than later.

Broken Hearted :( ,

fixedgeargirl

Lise

07-03-2006, 06:03 PM

Brandy

07-03-2006, 07:16 PM

Bad JuJu

07-04-2006, 03:37 AM

Dear early mornings,

You're my new favorite time to ride! The sights, the smells, the periods of silence on a normally busy path and streets. I'll gladly start going to bed early so I can experience you more often.

Love,

up before dawn

I hear ya, Brandy! Yesterday for some reason I slept until 7, didn't get on the bike until 8, and thought I would die with the heat and humidity, plus the freakin' traffic. Normally, though, I'm up and out before any of that gets going. Let's hear it for early morning rides!

--Up before dawn, only on the Gulf Coast

Tater

07-05-2006, 06:52 AM

Dear Lady in the pickup on 27th Street:

Thank-you for not right hooking me at the light this morning. I wasn't expecting a motorist to wait for me after the signal turned green, to clear the intersection before making a right hand turn. Usually four wheelers just haul azz like we bikers don't exist. Thanks for reinforcing my belief that this town is a pretty cool place to ride.

The commuter on the red bike

Aggie_Ama

07-05-2006, 07:35 AM

Dear Upstairs Neighbor,

I have patiently put up with your running up your stairs, loud music, the bass in your car, the high schoolers you hang out with and your strange habit of vaccuuming several times a week in the middle of the night (yes, we can hear that).

I cannot tolerate you leaving your dog on your patio. In case you are new to the area, it gets REALLY HOT in Texas in July. Last time I checked pugs do not tolerate heat well. I hope the little guy have a nicknamed Pugsly has water. I have tried to discuss this with you, but your lack of compassion makes it hard.

Since DH will not let me dognap Pugsly and I know our apartment complex will do nothing, I will call the local animal control next time he is left out. Your stupid excuses annoy me:
a) forgot him b) was having the carpet cleaned (2 weeks) c) he likes the fresh air.

Concerned about little "Pugsly",
Your Dog Loving Neighbor

Brandy

07-05-2006, 07:46 AM

Dear self,

Go to bed early tonight so you can meet Tiffanie at 5:00 a.m.!!!!:eek:

Love,

Me

Tiffanie

07-05-2006, 08:10 AM

Dear self,

Go to bed early tonight so you can meet Tiffanie at 5:00 a.m.!!!!:eek:

Love,

Me

http://www.tinklebelle.com/Smilies/images/nerves.gifhttp://www.tinklebelle.com/Smilies/images/bucky.gif

pikato

07-05-2006, 10:36 AM

Dear ex-coworker who has been hounding me to go on Wednesday night rides:

OK, I finally gave in. I talked with my grad school prof, explained I would not be able to be in class tonight, turned in my homework, and am leaving work a little bit early in order to get to LBS shop to put air in my tires (refer to my tire inflation thread in newbies section). I even emailed you last week to let you know that finally I would be going.

Why then, friend o'mine, do you reply "Oh, yeah, I might not go tonight"!!!?? Your booty has been hounding me every few days with an email about riding with you!!!

Grr.
Paige

light_sabe_r

07-05-2006, 01:56 PM

Dear Female Junk mail (pamphlet) deliverer.

Please read Queensland's LAWS when it comes to traffic on a footpath. there's no need to swear because you feel intimidated.

I did the courteous thing and slowed down and rang my bell when I approached you. You were not paying attention as you were flicking through the Junk mail you were delivering. ADD to that fact you were walking in the MIDDLE of the path and not on the left (even walking on the right would have been sufficent)

There is NO bike path or Bike Lane on Old Cleveland Road. (one of the "BUSY" arterials coming out of Brisbane City) Likewise the footpath is not marked with a "Peds only" or "No Bikes" logo.

THEREFORE DESPITE WHAT YOU SAY, I have every damn right to be on the footpath as you do! I gave WAY to you but you still hurtled abuse at me!!!
I do not appreciate it!!

Next time I swear I'm gonna hop off and Have a go at you! Cyclists have rights too!!!!

Sincerley
The chick who "SHOULDN'T BE ON THE F***N' FOOTPATH" If She's "GOING TO RIDE THAT F****N CONTRAPTION"

KSH

07-05-2006, 02:07 PM

betagirl

07-05-2006, 03:29 PM

Dear self,

There will be no procrastination considering the volume of work you need to get done in the next 2 weeks. While I know you tend to avoid things til the last minute when things get overwhelming, now is not the time.

Me

chickwhorips

07-05-2006, 04:09 PM

dear sister,

thanks for coming up to visit me in beautiful alaska and making it the worse week. your attitude the whole time was bad. you didn't even want to try and enjoy yourself. you made quite the impression on the town when asked what you thought of it here and first thing was "i coudln't live here". all you wanted to do was sit inside, play solitare and watch twilights zone reruns. even though we had the best weather the whole time you were here.

and thanks for even trying to watch the tour de france with us. you didn't even give it a chance. (for the record i do think men in pink jerseys are sexy!) what's with the snide little comments anyhow? :mad:

glad you got on the plane to visit some girl you've never met in anchorage. you were more happy about a few hours with her in the city, then the whole time with me enjoying what bush alaska has to offer.

sincerly,
your little sister
(who is enjoying life far more than you ever will!)

ps- thank you bear gods for having the beautiful bears come out when the time was right, and not to close. i enjoyed seeing the bears, even if my sister didn't.

snapdragen

07-05-2006, 06:51 PM

chick - where in Alaska are you?

No offense, but sister is nutz if she didn't enjoy AK! I can't think of a more beautiful place.

Nanci

07-06-2006, 04:06 AM

Dear Chickwhorips,

Are you even a little bit nervous about North Korea? Am I the only person in the US who is disturbed by the missile launchings?? Maybe it's because I was a kid during the Cuban deal.

Nanci

KSH

07-06-2006, 05:49 AM

chickwhorips

07-06-2006, 11:03 AM

snap - i'm in a bush town called cold bay. its the last "city" at the tip of the penninsula before the aleutian islands start.

nanci - no i'm not to worried. if the did try to attack us they would get less than 60 people. i figure they would go for anchorage if they wanted to hit alaska.

ksh - thanks! i will keep enjoying it up here and rub it in her face to.... na i'm not like that. i just know it kills her that i'm happy. i don't have to say a word.

the sad thing is i've had everyone in town ask me if she's always in a bad mood or just like that when she met them. poor thing can't even crack a smile.

anyone that is a happy person and can smile :) is more than welcome to come and visit me!

crazybikinchic

07-06-2006, 07:25 PM

Dear new sister-in-law,

I am so glad that you thought your "fit" little self could beat the fat sister-in-law at riding bikes. What really beat me down was the fact that after a mile and a half, you had to stop and get off your bike. Then there's the 8 miles in an hour and 20 minutes. HELLO!!!! :mad: (I now know how my coaches used to feel when they would have to slow down to 15 mph;) ). Next time dear sister-in-law, don't judge a person because they are fat. Remember how your fat sister-in-law smoked you when you encouraged her to ride at her normal pace. By the way, your 'fat' husband (not fat, all muscle) losing weight (no longer working out) is going to get him killed when he is out arresting some punk. Hope you enjoy his money while you can.

chickwhorips

07-06-2006, 07:59 PM

dear sister (again),

are you two or 41? who hangs up on someone in such a childish mannor and then turns off their cell phone? kinda sucks when someone confronts you on your childlike attitude doesn't it? grow up and be your age. you are a mother of two teenagers so act like it. they need a mother, not a friend or a mother that acts younger than them.

grow up!

salsabike

07-06-2006, 08:09 PM

Dear Current Administration,

Nanci is not the only one who's worried about North Korea. Lots of us are. Are any of YOU paying attention? Any ideas that might actually prove useful? Your citizens are anxiously awaiting some kind of constructive response on your part. Any time now would be good.

KnottedYet

07-06-2006, 08:13 PM

Dear Disturbed Co-Worker,

Your obsession with me is unhealthy. You need counselling. Your constant complaining about me to everyone is disrupting the clinic. Telling staff that it's all me, and you aren't doing anything to cause this, falls flat when they realize I never complain about you or speak badly about you. Telling patients I put electrodes on them wrong, or saying "Why did she do that?" "Why did she use 4 instead of 2 today?" "She put those in a weird place" is extremely unprofessional. Bear in mind that I am your superior, though I treat you as an equal because you are very good at your job.

Today one of the therapists begged me to do something about you. Tomorrow I will talk to one of the owners of the clinic about you.

And thank you for not calling me at home again and being abusive for 49 minutes.

You need help, and it's not the kind I can give.

snapdragen

07-06-2006, 09:06 PM

snap - i'm in a bush town called cold bay. its the last "city" at the tip of the penninsula before the aleutian islands start.

How cool! I've been out your way, but only as far as Kodiak Island. My first trip I did the real touristy stuff and went to Barrow. I love Alaska, just not sure I'm suited to live there.

anyone that is a happy person and can smile :) is more than welcome to come and visit me!

**snap begins dragging out her suitcase**:D C'mon girls! Road Trip! (and Ferry Trip, and whatever else...Bush Plane Trip!!)

crazycanuck

07-07-2006, 04:31 AM

Dear funky spirits/friends/whomever.

Thank you for keeping our friend christina safe last july 7th. Lucky she was at work & not on the bus round the corner...There's nothing like hearing from someone you care about when S*** happens...

Thank you again for keeping Andrew safe too. I'm sure his family appreciate that he was running late for work(he works on the underground...)

To all the families/friends/co workers who lost loved ones that day, our hearts go out to you. For the survivors, keep your heads up, be strong & cry if you need to.

Take care & we haven't forgotten.

c

chickwhorips

07-07-2006, 07:45 AM

**snap begins dragging out her suitcase**:D C'mon girls! Road Trip! (and Ferry Trip, and whatever else...Bush Plane Trip!!)

your more than welcome! the fish are in and its good fishin time!

Ashgarth

07-08-2006, 08:19 PM

Dear T,

I think you are being so incredibly immature that I can't even believe I am speaking to the same person I was dating for 4 months. You broke it off with ME, so I get to hold the grudge NOT you.....stop acting like you are the victim in this whole thing, and stop telling lies to make you look like it. You're almost 27, not 12. You are being so damn frustrating, go get some help for your commitment issues and grow up.

e1b2

07-09-2006, 09:31 AM

I've laid all the golden eggs I can for today. I've spoiled you, with fully-charged blackberry at bedside, in the bike or saddlebag on my few hours away from the establishment, on "vibrate" in church and at the theatre. I chase your balloons, tolerate being interrupted by the "speak to the hand" gesture when making a point, am your sounding board when YOUR boss (grand dame, also) does to you, what you do to me. The tip of my tongue is gone.

Two years ago, the day after my first mastectomy, you called me at home, and I came to the office to help you. The day of the second mastectomy, you called my husband while I was in recovery, and I came to the office the next day. I refused reconstruction, because of the time commitment. How crazy is that?

Last year, the week after my husband broke his back, while at home, I received an email stating "I know you've had family obligations lately......, but you need to do this....!" I did it.

Last month, the day of his heart-attack, you said "take all the time you need." The following day, you called me 4 times for help in responding to your boss, political personalities, an angry constituent.

And you ask to me to stay in cell phone range while I'm on leave, and that those I supervise do the same. (I have quietly refused to do that.) I also quietly challenge this edict, by seeking remoter and remoter weekend activities. The only rest I get, is when I am on a plane, you are on a plane, or your blackberry is dead.

I am living to work, and it's killing me. It's not the job, it's my loyalty to you, and my work ethic. But others, my firends, you supervise are paying for my inability to tell you "no." You expect the same from them, and the treatment they get for commiting to their families, and ability to leave work at work, is harsh and lasting.

While I survived the cancer, I'm overweight, an insomniac, high cholesterol, have aged 10 years in the last 5. My marriage is strong, but more to his credit than mine. I've not seen my children since March, as my plans are always changed for me.

And you wonder why invitations to socialize on weekends are turned down? This is a fragile and tenuous relationship, yours and mine. That there are few women in our organization, forces us together. That you are new and I am not, that I am the organizer, know the numbers, current on email and directives, makes your reliance on me painfully heavy.

So, when can we talk?

snapdragen

07-09-2006, 09:54 AM

So, when can we talk?

Do it soon, for your sake!

Selkie

07-09-2006, 12:16 PM

e1b2 - doesn't sound worth the cost, lass. the boss from hell indeed (control freak from hell might be more accurate?) maybe it's time to dust off the resume and encourage your friends to do likewise?

SadieKate

07-09-2006, 12:49 PM

your more than welcome! the fish are in and its good fishin time!Dear yellow:

ROAD TRIP!

Dear chick:

Sockeye? What?

Signed flygirl (and I don't mean airplanes)

snapdragen

07-09-2006, 01:33 PM

Sockeye? What?

Salmon my dear sadiekate, salmon. Which I happen to be cooking for dinner tonight!

SadieKate

07-09-2006, 02:08 PM

Dear Beloved Snap:

I provide for your edification a list of Pacific Salmon species:
http://www.hitime.com/sdscptn.htm

Your loving friend and fellow salmon aficionado,
SadieKate

mary9761

07-09-2006, 05:08 PM

Originally Posted by salsabike
PS The Goddess Kring is a large young woman who does an odd little show of her own on public access TV that involves weird costumes, lots of make-up and glitter, nudity, candles, cosmic-sounding music, and goofy dancing. It's absolutely bizarre.

Good lord, has that woman ever worn a bra? Those b00bs are close to her navel!

well, there's a good chance she has and they are STILL nearly to her navel. I know especially since I'm losing weight, when you've had large boobs all your life, gravity SUCKS!:eek: When you lie on your back they're either in your armpits or choking you around your EARS..

KnottedYet

07-09-2006, 06:03 PM

mary9761

07-10-2006, 06:00 AM

Even if you don't have large ones all your life (only while preggers and nursing) the saggy-baggy empties still end up in your armpits when you lie on your back. DPITA teases me about it.... but hey, hers are getting bigger as she is getting older, so I WILL GET MY REVENGE!!!

Dear BOOBS!
I always kidded that when I grew old and y'all dried up that I'd end up having to roll you puppies up to put you in a bra.. not too sure THAT was a joke at this point. :eek:
Signed
Not too happy about looking like something out of NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC!

Nanci

07-10-2006, 06:59 AM

mary9761

07-10-2006, 07:21 AM

Dear You know who you are,
I don't know why you thought you had to be such an @$$ at the ride the other day. :mad: Generally when someone says good morning or speaks to you the polite thing is to respond in kind. Don't say you were tired, you were speaking to everyone else quite coherently. And yeah, after the first slight it felt sooooo good for this fat @$$ on a hybrid to pass your SEVEN a 20+ mph even if it were only for a few moments.http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a361/mary9761/My%20Smilies/Overkill.gif I don't know what crawled up yours but I didn't know guys could get ragtime! :mad:
I know I left breakfast ahead of the rest of the group, (knew none of you would be riding with me anyways) but did you REALLY have to take the SHORTCUT to pass me so I wouldn't beat you all to the next gathering point?? I was soooo close. That's ok! I got the best revenge, I FINISHED MY CENTURY and all you got was 41 miles because you didn't even finish the full ride much less ride the 25 miles to and from.
I hope you're in a better mood next time I see you and BTW, I don't forget a slight.. :mad: You really don't want to PIZZ me off anymore... you don't want to see me angry, I can be a real NIGHTMARE!http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a361/mary9761/My%20Smilies/cooperstraightjacket_b.jpg

mary9761

07-10-2006, 07:26 AM

Dear Boob Complainers,

I had a pt last week (young, actually mom of a pt- 30ish?) who wants to have a boob job because she and her sister accuse eachother of having Ubangi Warrior Boobs! Nice mental image...

LOL, even as much as I don't care for them hangin so low, I was quite terrified when I thought I might lose one a few years ago when I found my first thankfully benign lump.:eek: I have lumps in the right one now and they believe they're the same.

pooks

07-10-2006, 07:33 AM

That's ok! I got the best revenge, I FINISHED MY CENTURY and all you got was 41 miles because you didn't even finish the full ride much less ride the 25 miles to and from.

Oh, I do hope "you know who you are" knows what you did!

And they aren't hot flashes. They're power surges!

Pooks

mary9761

07-10-2006, 07:50 AM

Originally Posted by mary9761
That's ok! I got the best revenge, I FINISHED MY CENTURY and all you got was 41 miles because you didn't even finish the full ride much less ride the 25 miles to and from.

Oh, I do hope "you know who you are" knows what you did!

And they aren't hot flashes. They're power surges!

Pooks

Oh HE DOES!!! I will remind him too next time I see him! :D
They are INDEED power surges at times, it's amazing what a little bit of GRRRRRR can do to help with that 80 mile mark and you're starting to fade. Of course not even that will do it sometimes if you're truly TOAST.

Beth-Ro

07-12-2006, 05:53 AM

Dear Nike,

Ever thought about selling Nike cycling gear at a Nike store? It could work. Why don't you give that a try?

Sincerely,

A cyclist who regularly shops Nike stores

pooks

07-12-2006, 06:18 AM

Dear Athletic Apparel Manufacturers who cater to women,

Size 12 is not an XL.

Size 14 is not an XL.

Size 16 is not an XL.

According to LLBean, major manufacturer of outdoorwear, 18-20 is an XL.

Believe it or not, size 12 chicks don't like ordering XL any more than real XL chicks like getting left out in the cold.

Thank you,
Pooks

Beth-Ro

07-12-2006, 08:16 AM

Dear Pooks,

YES!!!!! What is up with the random sizing in the cycling world?

Sincerely,
Bethro

Brina

07-12-2006, 08:44 AM

Dear family on the plane yesterday:

perhaps you should put off European vacations until your children are old enough to endure the flight. Start small - build up to 8 hours in the air.

(I should add, I am the mother of 3 under 6 who all fly multiple times per year, but the longest we have attempted is a 4.5 hour flight)

Brandy

07-12-2006, 08:54 AM

Dear dog,

Please stop barking at the gardener and his leaf blower.

Dear child,

Please stop yelling at the dog who is barking at the gardener and his leaf blower.

Dear self,

Please remember to buy earlplugs to wear on Wednesdays when the child is yelling at the dog to stop barking at the gardener and his leaf blower.

Bad JuJu

07-12-2006, 10:15 AM

Dear sweet lovely Bianchi Veloce on whom I just placed a deposit-
I know you want to go out and travel the roads instead of sitting in the shop on these glorious summer days. Don't worry, I'll be back to get you soon, and we'll spend many happy hours together!
Love, Your new best friend

P.S. What's your name?

Brandy

07-12-2006, 10:31 AM

Dear USPS,

Please feel free to deliver my Nashbar order today. :D

Love,

WantsherTopeakCompactHandlebarBagandshimmels

salsabike

07-12-2006, 12:38 PM

Dear Contractor,

It's me again.

Even though I in general really like you and know you do good work, I think that for the duration of the project, I'm pretty much going to hate you. Okay? Hope that's not too big a problem.

WOULD YOU PLEASE GET A MOVE ON? THERE'S A BIG FREAKING HOLE IN MY YARD. I'D LIKE TO GET IT FILLED BEFORE SOMEONE FALLS IN AND SUES ME.

Thank you.

Kitsune06

07-12-2006, 01:51 PM

Dear, sweet GF,

I realize I told you I knew the best way to get anyone into any hobby was to give them the best of one's own stuff and let them have fun...

And I realize I said your bike was sort of a POS, while mine feels like a modern miracle to behold, and somehow manages to coast uphill, defying gravity at times...

but I've put lots of time and money into your bike, so now it works and rides at least as well as mine...

so can I please have my bike back when we ride together? ;)

Love,
Kitsu

mimitabby

07-12-2006, 03:17 PM

Dear, sweet GF,

so can I please have my bike back when we ride together? ;)

Love,
Kitsu
hmm, Kitsu, sounds like we have a problem here! :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Lise

07-12-2006, 03:19 PM

I dunno, anything that starts out with "dear, sweet GF" sounds darned tolerable to me! :D Happy for ya. L.

SadieKate

07-12-2006, 06:41 PM

Dear MP,

Please quit sending me notes about how you're watching the TdF and what's up with so and so, etc., etc., when you know darn well I have been couped up in conference rooms and have no OLN. Somehow logging on to cycling.TV during other people's presentations seems a bit over the top, even for me.

Signed your dear friend having the DTs over no TdF exposure,
SK

maillotpois

07-12-2006, 06:43 PM

Dear SK -

OOOPS. I will shut up now.

You should be here when I know the result and DH does not. It is so hard to not react to ANYTHING.

Love. MP

PS - Come back to civilization soon. We miss you!!!

SadieKate

07-12-2006, 06:49 PM

Dear MP -

Just tell me the highlights. I haven't had time to read all the reports. I need some kind of distillation. What's the really juicy stuff I need to know?

Hoping to be home middle of the day Friday. The gossip here just isn't the same without yawl.

SK

Lise

07-12-2006, 06:52 PM

That's right, SK! I forgot you were in conference-land. I've been missing you around and about. L.

maillotpois

07-12-2006, 06:56 PM

I know!! It is super sad and lonely without her here.

SadieKate

07-12-2006, 07:04 PM

Gosh, I feel so loved.

maillotpois

07-12-2006, 07:08 PM

Gosh, I feel so loved.

Well, duh!!

:cool:

pyxichick

07-14-2006, 07:47 PM

I'm so very sorry for not being more careful when I propped you up against my back railing tonight. I was in a hurry to get to my group ride and I didn't see you sliding down while I was locking the door. Believe me when I say that it hurt me more than it hurt you when I saw that you got a half-inch dent in your top tube. I had to hold back the tears.

I understand that you were still smarting from that blow when two hours later you dumped me off at a stop sign in front of fifteen other riders whom I barely know, and left me with a bloody knee.

I hope this means we're even now and we can resume our happy relationship.

Sincerely,
Kate:o

SouthernBelle

07-15-2006, 03:49 PM

Dear Little old lady in the big buick,

When I have already taken the left turn lane, you do not have the right to cut in front of me. You are fortunate that I am a nice person who does not call old ladies 'idiots' and kick their fenders.

fixedgeargirl

07-17-2006, 07:51 AM

Dear USPS,

Please feel free to deliver my Nashbar order today. :D

Love,

WantsherTopeakCompactHandlebarBagandshimmels

What she said :D !

Sincerely,

Wantshershockpumptubesandgoobecauseshe'sleavingtown

AuntieK

07-17-2006, 09:25 AM

Dear Mother of Small Children at the race finish line,

PLEASE keep your kids out of the road!! It's not a good place for 2 and 3 year olds to play--we are sprinting for the finish here. Not only could your kids have caused a wreak, potentially hurting a racer as well as themselves, but there were CARS coming the other direction around the corner.
I hate to think what might have happened...please keep a better eye on the kiddies!

A concerned racer

salsabike

07-27-2006, 05:15 PM

Dear Contractor,

The last effing Ice Age moved faster than this house project is going. I'M JUST SAYIN'.

Brina

07-27-2006, 06:13 PM

Dear Floyd,

say it isn't so

mimitabby

07-27-2006, 07:50 PM

Dear Floyd
You seem like such a good kid. I hope it comes out okay, you deserve
your win.

I am worried that "the machine" is so corrupt that they are going to ruin
your win because of politics. I am glad you can afford the best lawyers that money can buy and I wish you all the luck in the world.

a fan
mimi

Brandy

07-27-2006, 08:19 PM

Dear sweaty guy on the stationary bike at the gym,

How/why do you sweat so much? Do you think that you could use your towel and try to catch that downpour before it becomes a puddle on the floor? Oh, and coughing up a lung while exercising is a big turn off to the other gym members, especially when you're spitting loogies into your towel every two minutes.

Signed,

Disgusted gym-goer

light_sabe_r

07-27-2006, 08:28 PM

Dear Robbie!

Congratulations on you Green Jersey win overall in Le Tour de France.

But really! Did you HAVE to name your son Ewan?

Ewan McEwen?

Oh well at least it rhymes

From

Concerned-bystander-knowing how cruel kids can be.

Aggie_Ama

07-27-2006, 08:39 PM

SadieKate

07-27-2006, 08:39 PM

Dear Robbie,

What light_sabe_r said. Guess you're just looking for more reason to headbutt folks?

Sheesh,

SK

snapdragen

07-27-2006, 08:43 PM

ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

Dear sweaty guy on the stationary bike at the gym,

How/why do you sweat so much? Do you think that you could use your towel and try to catch that downpour before it becomes a puddle on the floor? Oh, and coughing up a lung while exercising is a big turn off to the other gym members, especially when you're spitting loogies into your towel every two minutes.

Signed,

Disgusted gym-goer

salsabike

07-27-2006, 09:19 PM

Dear Robbie,

What light_sabe_r said. Guess you're just looking for more reason to headbutt folks?

Sheesh,

SK

And yet another ditto!

crazycanuck

07-28-2006, 03:37 AM

Dear weather people in the clouds,

Do you mind not raining on me at night time when it's hard for me to see? I know with the double shots(lights) seeing the path is much easier but rain on glasses isn't safe when one çan't see well normally!!!!

Also, do you mind not raining half way into my ride-I turn around at a good spot just because of you and then when i'm almost home you stop raining.

I like rain for off road-mud......but on road do you mind???

Annoyed in Perth...(but happy farmers down south)

Pascale

07-28-2006, 04:40 AM

Dear Neighbor:

I know you are a very kind-hearted man who cannot say no when people as you to watch their dogs. You had 3 of your own. Then you took in your sister's two ancient dogs. Then your son's fiance brought over her puppy mini-dachsund. And they are all very well-behaved dogs, and even though you are two over the limit, I love them all and have said nothing.

But when you took in your son's fiance's parent's daschunds for the week while they are on vacation, you crossed the line. There are now 8 dogs at your house. But these two aren't fitting in. Not that I dislike the dogs themselved, as I'm sure they are fine pooches. However, they are extremely barky. And everytime I let my dogs out, your guest-dogs run to the fence and begin barking. Which gets my wolfhounds going. Ok, so I have a bark collar on one of them, so she isn't actually barking.

Because I respect ALL my surrounding neighbors, when this occurs, I bring MY dogs into the house. They are half responsible for the noise. Could you at ANY time afford us the same courtesy? Because frankly, neighbor, it has gotten so that I cannot let my dogs out AT ALL. Because you leave your dogs in your garage with the door open 24/7 so they always have access to the backyard. There are NO times, day or night, that I can let my dogs out for any exercise - because you are either not home to bring yours in when they bark (as I do) or you ARE there and seem to not notice the noise that will get us all fined at some point. All I'd like is an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening - your dogs can have the rest of the whole d**mn day outside for all I care....

(thanks for the venting forum!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Kitsune06

07-28-2006, 01:13 PM

Dear LAF,

I appreciate the fact that you're a charitable organization, and your purpose for these events is *purely* fundraising, but all the same, it seems unfair that riders, just for the privilage of riding in your events, have to raise 10x the money walkers and runners have to. It seems like overtaxing a lot of people who know who you are and do this out of the goodness of their hearts, and there are a lot of people who didn't do it this year because of that $450 minimum difference. ...and don't get me wrong, I managed it, but still...
I'm not sure if I'd be too enthusiastic to do it next year. I'll still do charity rides because now I'm strong enough to contribute my abilities to worthy causes, but... if you still have that high minimum that I'd have to meet myself if I couldn't ask it of others, I just won't. That's a lot to ask of someone on my budget, and a lot of others. We're not all pros etc...

Food for thought.
Kitsu

pooks

07-28-2006, 01:21 PM

Ditto -- and I think some of these comments need to go to them.

Nanci

07-29-2006, 06:32 AM

Dear Cracker Chicken,

I hope you are happy in your new home. We really miss you. You can come back any time you want- I won't fill in your burrow.

Love,

Nanci and BF

Bikingmomof3

07-31-2006, 07:11 PM

Dear LBS (the closest one to me-you know who you are),

Why has each visit been more unpleasant then the previous one? Do you realize my family consists of 5 bikers? Did you realize you just lost a small fortune? I have 3 growing boys, who need to be outfitted and two need brand new bikes. The first clue would have been the teens and DH sizing bikes! You claim to carry items, which you do not have and only half stock items! You refuse to carry women's clothing, do you think only men ride? One of your employees actually refused to help me because I did not buy my bicycle there-ACTUALLY I did buy a bike there a mere 3 weeks ago, but upgraded not only my bicycle, but also my bicycle store. The ONLY reason I went back this evening was to purchase shoes for my ride tonight. Three men, not one could/would help me?? Yes, I was stupid, I should have not given you any of my business. Lucky for you I really wanted to ride this evening. A pity you will never know just how much of my business you lost. You see, I am addicted to biking!
Oh, and while I am on a roll, why would you carry Thule bicycle carriers, but none of the stabilizers and accessories needed to make the darn thing work properly? Even a novice like me heard you give incorrect advice to not one, but three customers. Thankfully none of them bought anything from you!
They were smarter than me. From now on I shall happily ride out of my way to the VFNSLBS (Very Friendly Not So Local Bike Store).

I am watching to see just how long your small store stays in business.

mimitabby

08-01-2006, 06:04 AM

Hey Biking mom, you ought to write that letter to the owner (or parent company of that store) it might at least make it better for the next hapless woman who shows up there!

Bikingmomof3

08-01-2006, 07:09 AM

Hey Biking mom, you ought to write that letter to the owner (or parent company of that store) it might at least make it better for the next hapless woman who shows up there!

I think I will. I found out last night they sold me mtb shoes, when I asked for road. Too late, they do not except returns or exchanges. They did not show me how to put the shoes together and told me nothing about cleats. Everything I know I learned here and from hours on MSN with Cari. I am heading out to where I bought my bike and they are going to set everything right.

mimitabby

08-01-2006, 07:11 AM

Bikingmomof3

08-01-2006, 07:13 AM

A lot of us here use MTB shoes instead of road shoes because you can actually walk on them.
The MTB shoes I bought had too much tread on the sides so I gave them to a coworker (model-maker machinist) who ground the bumps off.. easier to get in and out of my pedals now..and you can't see what he did unless you get really close.

Thanks for telling me. I will talk with jack, he is so friendly and knowledgable and I know he will make certain I leave the shop with the proper pedals, mtb shoes intake with clips, etc.

SadieKate

08-01-2006, 07:42 AM

Bikingmomof3

08-01-2006, 07:48 AM

Dear BikingMom,

Those of us with small feet grind down the lugs of our MTB shoes all the time, but this is only useful with smaller pedals such as Eggbeaters and SPDs. If you want a road pedal with a large platform, such as Look, you will need road shoes.

After your huge list above, I'd go back the original store and throw the biggest tempter tantrum you ever saw. If I paid by check, I'd see if I could put a stop order on it. I'd be so flaming mad you'd see smoke.

SK

It would not matter, not where I live, long story short, I moved to a terribly snobby, elitist area and no one cares and most have money to burn. I did not know this at the time. I moved here because of the excellent school system for my kids. *sigh* As for the shoes, they are really comfortable ( I wear an 8 1/2) and will serve the purpose of getting me used to clipless. They are more of a tour shoe than a mtb shoe. Definitely not a road shoe, which ironically I did indeed have on yesterday. Eventually I will go with real road shoes, but not through that store.

light_sabe_r

08-01-2006, 05:51 PM

Dear Cycling family parents out yesturday afternoon on the Norman Creek bike path at Coorparoo.

GOOD ON YOU!

I saw you yesturday, Dad, Mum, Oldest sister (about 8-10) Youngest sister (about 4-6) and baby brother (In the carry chair on the back of Mum's bike!)

YOU ROCK! Keep it up parents!

Not only were you both spending quality time with your kids (and each other) you were getting them fit, and teaching them road etiquette! I thought it was gorgeous how your eldest rang her bell and moved to her left and smiled at me as I rode slowly past (like I always do around kids) so I rang mine and grinned back. (although I think what she really was smiling at was my pink helmet ^_^ Most little girls do)

I hope whenever BF and I get married and have kids we're dragging our own kids out cycling like you guys are.

withm

08-01-2006, 06:43 PM

I think I will. I found out last night they sold me mtb shoes, when I asked for road. Too late, they do not except returns or exchanges. They did not show me how to put the shoes together and told me nothing about cleats. Everything I know I learned here and from hours on MSN with Cari. I am heading out to where I bought my bike and they are going to set everything right.

Jennifer - don't discount those MTB shoes too quickly. Lots of us use them with MTB pedals on our very expensive road bikes. Think about the kind of riding you are going to do - are you EVER going to walk in them? I was constantly fighting wearing my road shoes/cleats and having to walk in dirt to get from my street to my shed to put the bike away, or walk around at a rest stop, or want to walk on the boardwalk, or just walk into a restaurant for a coffee or snack - road shoes will make you miserable (unless you get "coffee shop covers" - IF they are available for your shoes). Plus they are very hard to walk in more than 50' or so. And if you should by chance walk in grass or dirt, they will pick up gobs of the stuff, then when you try to clip in (or worse, out) of your pedals you may have extreme difficulty. Been there done that.

I made the switch to MTB shoes (Sidi) and Speedplay Frog pedals. They are WAY EASIER to clip in/out, more comfortable for walking, and infinitely better riding. Don't let any stuffy shop try to intimidate you from putting MTB pedals on your road bike. It's ok, and I doubt that anyone will give you a hard time about it.

On the other hand if you really want road pedals, I have some practically new (400 miles) Speedplay Xs, cleats, AND coffee shop covers, that I will happily sell. And a pair of Specialized Road shoes size 43. (Shoes were great, but I eventually decided they were actually too big for me - part of my problems with the whole set up....)

Martha

Nanci

08-02-2006, 07:41 AM

oxysback

08-03-2006, 06:31 AM

To Whom it May Concern,

The weather here in the Willamette Valley area has been beautiful. Please, if you could just keep it this way for the rest of the summer I'd be very happy.

Yours truley,
A Biker That Hates the Heat

~~~~~~~~~

Dear Road Pavers,

The road that you recently repaved near Champoeg Park is WONDERFUL! So nice and smooth. I got up to 29 mph last night at one point! Now, if I could direct your attention to French Prarie Road...

Keeping My Fingers Crossed,
Ellen

~~~~~~~~~

Dear DH,

Thank you so much for riding with me. By "with me" I mean close enough so we can talk, not 1/4 mile ahead of me. I know I'm slower than molasses flowing up a tree in winter compared to you, but it means so much that you are willing to ride at my pace. Thank you for being a supportive husband!

Your Loving Wife,
Ellen

That is all. :cool:

KSH

08-03-2006, 06:53 AM

Dear Sidi Road Shoes,

I can't help it, but I hate you. I hate how you slip off the pedal and make me rack myself. I hate how I am afraid to cross in front of cars which would be far enough away if I was sure my foot was going to stick. I hate how I can't unclip and just ride unclipped in uncertain situations, momentarily, because my feet will slide off. Why did you have to look so pretty on the website? Some day when I am not lazy, I will try to find a new home for you. I love your MTB sisters, though...

Nanci

Dear Sidi Road Shoes- Part II,

I hate you too. When I first bought you, it took me like 2 months to break you in. Unfortunately, I had to suffer through 2 days of pain at the MS150, where the tounge dug into the front of my foot. Yes, it HURT to put you back on, for the second day.

I also hate the way you are made for REALLY SKINNY FEET. Sure, I have narrow feet. But dang, if I get the least bit hot, or if I need to put on thicks socks... you don't fit me anymore... and your to too tight.

Finally... why don't you have comfy padding in the bottom of the shoe? Yes, I put new padding in, but that sucks too.

And, my toes go numb when I wear you, but I won't blame you for the numb toes... although maybe I should.

One of these days, IF I have enough money, I am sure as hell going to replace you with shoes that I like.

Sincerely,
Karen

Bikingmomof3

08-03-2006, 07:38 AM

Dear Women's Clothing Manufacturers,

Is there a logical reason behind every brand being sized differently? I mean, would it be so difficult to have a uniform sizing? I know that with men's clothing the sizes are uniform. Men do not have to ponder whether a small in one size is really a medium in another and my all time favorite, one brand is a small and the next is a large? What is up with that?? I cannot speak for all women, maybe some like to try on a bazillion sizes until they find what fits. Me, I prefer to know my size and go from there. I hate trying on clothing, but would be willing to if the LBS stocked womens cothing-that is another letter. Please, please try to make sense of womens clothing.

chickwhorips

08-03-2006, 01:56 PM

dear annoying people i work with,

please be quiet and let me work. you stay on your side of the building, not mine.

thank you,
your admin person

ps - friday... come soon! i can't take it anymore.

Nanci

08-03-2006, 04:41 PM

Dear Chris- stay away from me!!! I had enough with Charlie, Francis and Jeanne. I am not kidding!!!

Nanci

SadieKate

08-03-2006, 05:35 PM

Dear Handsome Hubby,

I just want to say thank you because you're the one who popped up with "I know you need to train for such and such ride so what do you want to do this weekend? We should be out the door really, really early."

You're a gem.

SK

Lise

08-03-2006, 07:11 PM

Dear People Who Live Across the Street:

Please explore the neighborhood! Your kids will love the great playground 1/2 a mile away! They can run and scream and play lots of places! They do not need to be restricted to the 1/2 block in front of your building! Yes! Take a walk! Take the kids! Everyone will be happy! And lower your voices, please. If I can hear you over here, surely you can hear each other just fine.

Signed,
Your cranky neighbor who works nights sometimes and really needs to sleep during the day.

Tuckervill

08-04-2006, 05:36 PM

Dear Pat from Michigan:

I don't know how clueless you have to be to get on the internet and Google Tuckerville and believe that Tanya's producers would be so careless as to leave the "E" off the name of her show in her email address. Why would Tanya use AOHell, anyway? Wouldn't she just have her very own website and her very own email address, like Tanya@tuckerville.com or something like that?

Even though you're clueless, I've enjoyed getting your misdirected fanmail. Thanks for not complaining that your emails are never answered. That would push me over the edge of temptation to pretend that I actually AM TT, and that would not be nice or fair. I don't know if Tuckerville has been renewed for another season, but if it is, feel free to write me again after every episode.

Signed,
Tuckervill

Dear Tanya Tucker:

I've had this name at AOL (and yahoo and hotmail and many, many online locations) for over 10 years. Yes, it was so long ago that allowing more than 10 letters in a screenname for thousands of people would have taxed the storage capacity of even the best servers in the world at the time. Even though I don't have the "e", I am still the original Tuckervill, and I expect the royalty checks to start any day, now.

Signed,
The Best, the Original, The Superfluous E Non-user, Tuckervill

Bikingmomof3

08-04-2006, 05:51 PM

Dear Irresponsible Man Who Owns the Madone SL 5.9,

I realise your bike is expenisve, so does everyone else in the bicycle store, so it is really not necessary to park said bike in the doorway of the store. Surely you must realise when an excited 11 year olds run through the doorway to pick up their brand new Trek 3700- mere pocket change I realise to you- and your gorgeous and yes expensive bike is parked inside the doorway, you really should not be too shocked when your bike is *almost* toppled, thankfully 11 year olds have brilliant reflexes. Okay, it was funny watching you in your road shoes try and run across a concrete floor to reach your bike in time-really,you must admit now, that your bike is safe, how funny you looked. Next time, please park your ride out of the way of other patrons. We will all feel better.

Brandy

08-04-2006, 05:52 PM

Dear new Spinning Instructor,

I'm sorry that when you yelled WHERE IS YOUR AAAAAAAAAAASSSSS??? during a standing climb, that I had a giggle attack and couldn't stop. I'm also sorry that I made Tiffanie start giggling. Welcome to the gym.

Love,

The bad student. :D

Kitsune06

08-04-2006, 05:53 PM

Dear Guy Who Drove Into My Car:
I don't know what frightens me more- the fact that you were so preoccupied looking for an address that you turned right out of the center lane, into my car, then parked and didn't even look for me, or the fact that when I approached you about running into my car, you were still asking some biker guy on the sidewalk where this address was, then turned around when you saw me and asked ME where this place was, and seemed totally clueless about the nature of the situation when I told you you hit my car.:eek:

You don't have a phone, and your insurance doesn't have a phone number for you. You're the type if idiot driver that scares the h*ll out of me biking, and God knows, if you'd have hit me while I was on my bike, I could probably be laying there bleeding and you'd get out of your car and start asking me for directions.:mad:

I hope you lose your license- you're obviously totally unaware of your surroundings, and if I tell people this story, they'd never BELIEVE you were SO out of touch with reality.

Please go somewhere and lose your license, but don't start biking because you'll hurt yourself and others. Just walk.:mad:

Regards,
Kitsune-
A P.O'd fox.

chickwhorips

08-04-2006, 06:32 PM

dear bf,

i appreciate you giving me a new training program to help me out, but i do not appreciate you telling a friend my speed. i told you i was very embrassed and how hard it was to tell you about how "fast" i was going. when you said i can walk faster than that and told the friend how fast i was going and he said the same thing it really HURT!
i will tell you this in person shortly, but i wanted to tell you now also so i dont rip your head off in a bit.

your gf with very hurt feelings.

Lise

08-04-2006, 06:38 PM

your gf with very hurt feelings.
CWR: Sorry to hear about it. I hope he had no idea how that would hurt you, and that he loves you up to make it up to you. L.

Kitsune06

08-04-2006, 07:36 PM

Dear redneck ex-friend
I can't believe you actually told me you beat the $**t out of a 'f@g' and his friend and laughed when I told you you'd just lost all my respect. I hate people like you, who say "It's okay when chicks do it" and then turn around and think it's okay to tell ME when you're a beligerant jerk to what I consider a male equivalent and counterpart.
People like you are the reason I hop on my bike and pedal to places far, far from everyone else.
Thanks for giving me reasons I *didn't* need.
-K

Tuckervill

08-05-2006, 04:44 AM

Dear Kistune:

If you know who beat the **** out of a *** and his friend, please call the police and report it.

Thank you,
Karen

Bikingmomof3

08-05-2006, 06:31 AM

I agree with Tuckervill, Please report it. I lived in Larmaie, when Matthew Shephard was beaten, tied to a fence, and left to die. I saw how the girlfriend of one of the guys who did it knew and did nothing. It was a very terrible time and I pray that never, ever happens again.

Hate crimes are not tolerated and should not be tolerated. Please let the police know.

Kitsune06

08-05-2006, 11:34 AM

Tuckervill, BMO3, I looked into it last night with some other people he knows and went to the Rose Festival with, and apparently no such thing happened- It turns out he made up the story to 'impress' me or some such- and failed miserably. But yeah, I was pretty close to calling the police on him. You just don't DO that... or SAY that kind of thing to impress people, much less someone you know is of the same sort (but a girl). GRR. idiot.:mad:

Tuckervill

08-05-2006, 11:50 AM

I'm really glad to hear that no one was actually beaten.

Karen

Lise

08-05-2006, 08:27 PM

Dear Revelers at Retro on Roscoe:

Street fairs! Aren't they fun? Whoo hoo! I like a street fair, too. I'm not sooo psyched that it's at the end of *my* street, because you revelers take up all the parking. But hey, it's two days out of the year.

However. When you're drunkenly stumbling to your cars and yelling at each other, you're in my neighborhood. Under my window. SHUT UP! And firecrackers? Not a good idea. Thank you for giving the area merchants your money. Now go away quietly like good little revelers, OK? Thanks. :cool:

Lise

08-10-2006, 07:04 AM

Dear Guy on the Mountain Bike:

Take me through this. We're on the north branch of the lakefront path, by Foster. You're behind the guy on roller blades who had his pit bull on a lead. You see me coming toward you, in the aero bars. What made you decide that our moment of intersection would be the perfect time for you to pull out and pass rollerblade/dog walking guy?

My perspective: Cruising along ~20 mph, in the aero bars, path clear in front of me. I note dog/blade guy. Dog is out of harm's way. Guy is blading sanely. Then, all of a sudden, you come blasting up behind him and charging at me. I shriek, "GACK! :eek: ", and have to make the split second decision to try to get out of the aero bars as I veer off the path onto the gravel and grass, and maybe lose complete control of the bike, or stay in them and control the bike with my forearms alone.

Not that you care, but I went off the path, toward the tree, back on the path, and carried on, still in the aerobars. I'm proud of myself, but mighty ticked off at you! Dude! Pay attention! I doubt you even looked back when you heard me scream. :mad:

chickwhorips

08-10-2006, 08:27 AM

whoa lise! glad to hear you came out of that one ok. good thing you have lots of SKILLS.

stupid stupid person.....

Lise

08-10-2006, 08:53 AM

whoa lise! glad to hear you came out of that one ok. good thing you have lots of SKILLS.

stupid stupid person.....
I know. I seriously thought I was going down on that one. Being in the aerobars is a very strange feeling. Getting into/out of them is a moment of potentially great instability. I always do it one arm at a time. So my instinct was to yank up both arms and grab the handle bars to control the bike. But there was very little space between the path, the little curb down, the gravel/grass, and a tree. I needed to steer (not yank) the bike back over the curb (~1") and onto the path.

Suddenly pulling up both arms would have sent me flying, for sure. Of course I was clipped in. I don't know where I would've landed, but it was going to hurt. I pulled over and slowed down my heartrate after I was safely back on the path. Swear words were involved.

I will say I feel a lot more confident about my bike handling skills when using the aero bars now! I still don't have numchuck skills, though...:p

Nanci

08-11-2006, 09:47 AM

Dear Scumbag,

Thanks for stealing my lunch out of the fridge at work. So I had Charleston Chews for lunch instead...

Nanci

Nanci

08-11-2006, 09:50 AM

Dear Beeotch "K,"

When you are rude to my staff, and I have to intervene, and then you are rude to me, and you don't want me to read out policy to you so you can understand, it's not really appropriate to say "Have a blessed day" before you hang up on me.

Nanci

PS, Sorry you weren't able to circumvent our policy no matter who you tried to bully into it.

Lise

08-11-2006, 09:28 PM

Dear Scumbag,

Thanks for stealing my lunch out of the fridge at work. So I had Charleston Chews for lunch instead...

Nanci
Yeah, like the whole time they were eating your lunch, they were thinking, what? "This really is *my* food"???

Lifesgreat

08-11-2006, 09:28 PM

Dear woman leaving the VIP tent at the end of tonight's stage of the Tour of Utah:

My friend heard you when you looked at us and said "Look, they're feeding the peons now" as you were leaving the VIP tent and my friends and I were eating dinner.

My friends and I spent many hours today ensuring the race was enjoyable for all. Yes, we are volunteers. We are course marshals, runners, cheerleaders, bannerstrappers, you name it, we do it. All for free.

We were tired and we were invited to eat by the food provider. No, we didn't eat in the "special" tent, but the auxiliary one. We also wanted to get out of the quick rainstorm that showed up.

By the way, Ms. VIP, you don't know that I am an elected official in one of the largest cities in the state of Utah. I have spent a lot of time in VIP areas as a VIP. I am thankful I am not like you.

I am also thankful the race organizers, the Prestons, are not like you. They are the most gracious "bosses" and I will be back next year volunteering.

Sincerely,
A proud volunteer

kelownagirl

08-12-2006, 08:50 AM

Wow Nanci, sounds like you had a crappy day at work!

And the VIP lady sounds *so* obnoxious... I hate people like that...

snapdragen

08-12-2006, 09:29 AM

Dear mini-me manager, the problems that are happening with the cash posting for your unit rest solely on your shoulders. You insisted on "taking ownership" for every aspect of the electronic data; never mind you haven't a clue about what is needed. So none of you payments came electronically, now everything must be posted by hand. Knock yourself out; I'm sure as hell not helping you.

Oh, and stop trying to put the blame on everyone else, no one believes you.

yellow

08-14-2006, 05:19 PM

Lise

08-14-2006, 05:27 PM

Dear Half of Salt Lake:

HANG UP THE F****** PHONE AND DRIVE!

Better yet, get out of your car and see what it feels like to be a pedestrian or a cyclist trying to navigate the city.

(I apologize if this has been posted before. I couldn't find it and frankly needed to vent. I feel better now. :p )
Yellow, during my brief sojourn in your adopted city, I noticed how many people were almost exceedingly polite. You might wear a t-shirt while biking that reads: Talking on the phone while driving is rude! That should solve the problem pronto. :p Good luck with all that, though, really. We suffer from the same thing here in the Windy city. L.

Tater

08-17-2006, 06:10 AM

Dear A$$clown driving the minivan with license plate 1A GL686:

Yes, you Egg-McMuffin sucking, knuckle dragging Neanderthal*, I did get your license plate. Ya know what, so did the Ada County Sherrif's office. See the Boise area police departments decided to crack down on aggressive drivers earlier this summer. Particularlly the ones that like to tailgate, weave in and out of traffic, or cut people off for no particular reason. You fit the last catagory to a tee. As we were coming up to a red light, you had no business gunning the engine to get around me so you'd be the first one in line. You cut back into the lane so close that I came thisclose to ramming my front tire up your muffler. But yet you looked back in wonder as to why I yelled out "B!@#$" and the guy in the next lane honked at you? There were two lanes for truning left, you could have easily stayed in the far left one, as there wasn't any traffic over there. That's okay though. Just be aware that your actions are noted now and if you continue to drive like an a$$, one of Boise's finest may just be paying you a visit. Think again before cutting anyone off, especially a cyclist before she's had her morning oj! Have a nice f'ing day.
Signed,
The really p!ssed commuter

*Not that there is anything wrong with being an Egg McMuffin sucking, knuckle dragging Neanderthal! ;)

mimitabby

08-17-2006, 07:00 AM

Dear Bratty 20 something that
scared the crap out of me when you passed me too closely on my way home from work yesterday.
it was really nice of you to say that you were sorry after I caught up to you and let you know that you didn't give me enough room but it really pissed me off when in the next sentence you dared to suggest that i should have been on the sidewalk.
Didn't you learn anything about street safety when you learned to drive, which had to be less than 10 years ago?
didn't they teach you to give the r ight of way to pedestrians and bicyclists
so you don't KILL THEM?
Would you have told a little old lady with a cane the same thing about being on the sidewalk?
Have you noticed what the sidewalks LOOK like on the streets where you passed me? Most of them are not safe for pedestrians OR bicyclists because of the blackberries, weeds and road debris on them!
What is a really handy feature of the sidewalks in our neighborhood is that they aren't even always THERE! So again, thanks a lot.
I hope the next time you pass that close to a bicyclist it's an aggressive male and he keys your car.
have a nice day!
mimi

fixedgeargirl

08-17-2006, 07:18 AM

mimitabby

08-17-2006, 07:42 AM

Dear Fixedgeargirl
how crummy. Well, the good news is, if it's about you having a kid,
better find out now than later. The other good news, there's lots of really nice
guys out there well, not lots, but there are a few good men out there. Good luck i hope you find one soon!
mimi

Bikingmomof3

08-17-2006, 07:52 AM

Dear Potential Bike Date,

Did I scare you when I told you I have a child? Or are you just busy and haven't had time to answer my email? I'm going to go think positive thoughts and remind myself that I must be true to myself as I enter the dating pool for the first time, well, ever.

Realizingthisaboutmenotyou,

fixedgeargirl

If he cannot handle you having a child, he is not worth your time. It is best to find this out now. I know it does not help much right at this moment because you were looking forward to this and it still may be okay. If you do not hear back from him, then he was not deserving of you.

chickwhorips

08-17-2006, 08:10 AM

stupid bike date guy! http://www.smileycons.com/img/emotions/155.gif

Kitsune06

08-17-2006, 10:23 AM

Dear DGF's parents:
Hate to say it, but you have to grow up.
Your oldest daughter is almost 30 and still terrified of the thought that you might find out she has a gf. Is this your fault or hers? No real matter, but I admire how stringently your adhere to your religious and moral objections to others' rights and freedoms. Still, God so help me, when I feel ready and able to have a child of my own; if my dear little girl (or boy) decides to be (whatever their orientation might be) then I'll be happy for them as long as they're happy. I hope I never live to make my kids afraid to tell me important things about themselves and their lives. If I think I'm responsible and adult enough to foster another blossoming life, then I better d*mn well be responsible and adult enough to accept their lives as being their own, and their happiness as important to them first, regardless of whether or not it 'pleases' me, as long as they're not hurting themselves or someone else.

Parents like you prove the wisdom my mom passed on one night: "Everyone tries to do better by their kids than was done by them... I try, but I hope you take all your observations, wait til you're 30 so you know where you are, and then do the better by your kids- then send them home so I can spoil them."

DGF will be a brilliant mom...
but her kids will never have to be afraid of what they can or can't tell their mom.
-Best regards,
Someone who loves your little girl

mlove

08-17-2006, 10:36 AM

Bluetree

08-17-2006, 10:45 AM

Dear crazy rich lady in Santa Barbara,

Thank you so much for the kind words regardng my work as an equine artist.

Please be aware, however, that I work exclusively with horses, not dogs. While I am flattered that you are willing to double my fee to make an exception in your case, I am afraid that I cannot do so.

I am aware that you have lost a dear friend in your Shih Tsu. I, too, have grieved over a lost pet. However, I have never taken it so far as to have my dearly departed canine freeze-dried. Yes, I will take your word that Muffy looks quite real in her mummified sleeping position. I believe you when you tell me she doesn't smell. However, the thought of someone sending me their dead dog via Priority Mail so I can paint her likeness is, well... a bit morbid.

Might I suggest that there are better things to do with your time and money? Perhaps volunteering at your local animal shelter will help ease some of the pain in your loss.

Again, thank you for inquiring about my services. Perhaps we can speak again when you acquire a horse. Preferably a live one.

Warmest regards,
Joy

fixedgeargirl

08-17-2006, 10:52 AM

Dear Potential Bike Date,

Okay, so I'm a little antsy. Thanks for the return email. You are not frightened by my motherhood. This is good.

Signed,

Butterflies in my tummy

Bikingmomof3

08-17-2006, 11:03 AM

Dear Student,

If you have gotten to your fourth year at this prestigious university and you still don't know the course catalog from the class schedule, you need more than a phone call to me (rather than your own advisor) to help you register for classes.

I am surprised you haven't flunked out yet.

OMG, this sounds like something my husband (a chemistry professor) would have written. He will be pleased to hear he is not alone in being frustrated with students.

Bruno28

08-17-2006, 11:15 AM

While I am flattered that you are willing to double my fee to make an exception in your case, I am afraid that I cannot do so.

I have a recently departed hamster - well I say 'recently'...are you sure you couldn't just make one exception.....(sound of crazy laughter fading into the distance).:eek:

chickwhorips

08-17-2006, 11:21 AM

I am aware that you have lost a dear friend in your Shih Tsu. I, too, have grieved over a lost pet. However, I have never taken it so far as to have my dearly departed canine freeze-dried. Yes, I will take your word that Muffy looks quite real in her mummified sleeping position. I believe you when you tell me she doesn't smell. However, the thought of someone sending me their dead dog via Priority Mail so I can paint her likeness is, well... a bit morbid.

as a postal worker in my spare time, i would not like to see this come through the mail! besides if you were to make one exception, just this one time, wouldn't a picture work too?

and who in their right mind freeze dries a pet?

Dogmama

08-17-2006, 11:21 AM

Dogmama

08-17-2006, 11:25 AM

Dear Student,

If you have gotten to your fourth year at this prestigious university and you still don't know the course catalog from the class schedule, you need more than a phone call to me (rather than your own advisor) to help you register for classes.

I am surprised you haven't flunked out yet.

Around here, even grad students need to be spoon fed.

Sometimes they surprise you by walking upright....

Dogmama

08-17-2006, 11:28 AM

as a postal worker in my spare time, i would not like to see this come through the mail! besides if you were to make one exception, just this one time, wouldn't a picture work too?

Years ago (like 30) a good friend of mine would send me a small dead clam from Maine to Arizona in the middle of the summer. Opening up a mailbox where it had been "cooking" for several hours...the smell would knock you over. I would beg her to NOT send the clam, and she would laugh & send it anyway. Always felt sorry for the poor postal workers who had to deal with this.

Kitsune06

08-17-2006, 11:29 AM

In defense of Fixedgeargirl's poor bike date:
Even if he were totally into her, he would have to be honest about whether or not he was ready for fatherhood. It's not *for* everyone. If he weren't honest about that but was terribly unhappy around/didn't know how to deal with kids, that would be far worse than his breaking off dating early on. Just b/c you can't handle kids doesn't mean you're necessarily pond scum.
Case in point, my gf wants to have kids sometime soon (is watching the clock tick) and sadly there are enough years between us that I'm too young to be okay with having kids yet. Does that make me a bad partner? Maybe, but I have to worry about my happiness, too. Give the poor guy a break.