Dear Kitsuneo6:
~ I'm a banana
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Dear Kitsuneo6:
~ I'm a banana
Dear kind ladies near the end of the line at the post office,
thank you for defending me when the harpie behind me accused me of cutting in line when I returned to the counter (as I had been told to do) with my customs slip. I hadn't cut in line and her five minute harrangue about how, "if we were in Mexico, you'd be shot!" was really quite upsetting. Being heckled by others in line saying, "I've got the gun! I've got my knife, etc..." was also very upsetting. But then, I'm such a delicate flower:( ... Thanks for shutting them all up with your cheery, "have a nice day!:) " as I slunk away in shame, even though I hadn't done anything wrong.
Jeeze, I thought I lived in a redneck mecca.
I wonder where this woman got her knowledge of the Mexican Post Office?
Dear co-workers,
Just a little heads-up, as the new person at work I find it decidedly UN-helpful when your way of welcoming to the new job is to give me all the details of who you hate here, why you hate them, and why working here sucks so bad. I'm new, let me enjoy it for a while.
Secondly, for those of you who continuously complain about how hard it is to work 37.5 hours a week for good pay, great benefits, AND in a protected civil service job...I suggest you try a job where you work horrible hours, have to clean up poop/pee/blood/barf, low pay, rotten benefits, and no raise for four years.
Sincerely,
The new gal
Dear Germs,
You must be strong and healthy germs and i see that you all have found my body to be a good host for your party. I apologize that my immune system is giving you such a difficult time. however this playful roughhousing that you are doing in my head and abdomen and muscles is keeping me from making my May riding goals.
Do you think that you could possibly move your party elsewhere? My immune cells are tired :( :(
silver
Dear Missymaya
FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY AND GOOD.... !!!" :eek: :eek: :eek:
~Kit
Dear Group of Five Women Who Sit In The Back Row At Every Spin Class,
Please shut up during class. Your incessant conversations not only disturb the concentration of those who are actually trying to use this class for training purposes but it is rude and disrespectful to the instructor who is a very nice woman.
Whats the matter with you?
Hey ZenC...
Why not ask them to go on a ride & see if they can keep up with ya..:rolleyes: I'm sure they'll show up with thier make up, purses & handbaskets.. Show dem who's boss!
*slinks far away*
C
thanks for letting me see the world through your eyes. It's ugly and bitter and mean spirited. YOu accuse me of things I"ve never done, and you misinterpret my every word and action in a nasty negative and often inaccurate way.
I'm sorry, I guess I can't ever do what you need me to do. I can't figure out what it is! I have tried but I can see it's a waste of my time because no matter what I try, it's going to be wrong.
I valued our relationship so much that I sought counsel with a best friend and our mother (who would really like us to play nice together) and all that did is piss you off worse. I didn't know there was a rule in relationships that problems should be dealt with in secret. I have never lived that way. I learned a long time ago that seeking counsel is a good thing. But for some reason you find it to be an outrage that I would dare talk about you with anyone.
YOu somehow confuse my husband's letter to you as having something to do with me. If I have anything to do with that letter at all, it was to tone it down.
It's amazing that this makes you mad too. You asked for it.
I am starting to realize that you have turned into a nasty meanspirited person who I really don't want to be around, but it's too final for me to actually say this to you, so I am probably going to let your last accusatory letter just sit.
your only sister
Dear Woman-On-A-Bike,
I see you riding every Tuesday near my neighborhood as I head to chem class in the morning- you're noticeable becase a.) you have the same jersey on all the time (me too, I'm poor) and ride the same route and b.) you look like you're having so much fun. You look new at it- your mountain bike doesn't quite fit you, and your handling skills are a little wobbly. However, I'm glad to see you every week, and to tell the truth, I'm jealous that you get to ride and I have to go work problems about partial pressures of atmospheric gasses. I also admire your courage to ride alone near traffic AND be new-ish.
Don't worry about the drivers too much- I already tore some old dude a new one when he threatened to run me over simply because I was following the rules of traffic and waiting to turn left (with my hand extended, signaling my intentions) when I was riding home from volunteering the other week.
I know I shouldn't cuss at old folks, even if they yell at me to get off the road and rev the engine while blaring the horn and inching towards my back tire. Since it appeared he received his driver's license sometime in the late 1800's before cars were around, maybe he just didn't know better. Or perhaps he couldn't see well enough to notice that I'm an actual living and breathing person. It's also quite possible that they were late to some crucial Bingo game in the culturally thriving metropolis of downtown Edmonds. I'm also sorry that his wife had to witness my outburst- she looked shocked that such words could emanate from a young woman.
However, I'm both sarcastic and Scottish, and I don't like being messed with. So, there is one less driver that will bother you in this area- he backed down when I got out my cell and threatened to call the police if need be to review Washington State traffic laws.
cheers!
-tricky
Wow Mimi! What a bummer about your sister. Family is ... well family. I can't imagine having a tremendous rift with any of my siblings, even my redneck brother.
I cherish my sisters and at least one of my brothers :p and our relationships. My oldest sister, Valerie was diagnosed with tongue cancer in late March. Instead of coming to visit me over spring break, she had part of her tongue removed. When they biopsied her lymph nodes they found cancer in some of them so she is now undergoing chemo and radiation treatments. She's on her third week of 7 or maybe it's 8 weeks of treatment.
We've all rallied around her, my two other sisters and my two brothers, even Mr. Redneck. And the thing is... it would be that way for any one of us. When I showed up at a family reunion covered with bruises my brother threatened to kick my husband's a$$. I had to explain how I'd gotten each and every bruise from mountain biking. :p
Reading your letter to your sister just reminded me how lucky I am. Now which one am I gonna call...
V.
Dear Veronica -
Thanks for making me cry a little.
Dear Mimi -
I am so sorry. I don't really have sisters (long story), but I am sure this is very painful for you.
Dear Teigyr -
I just read the post about the pole dancing, Seven owning b!(ch and WOW. I'm sorry. Loser. :mad:
yeah, I guess that's life.
Dear Trickytiger. Me too. I swear it's genetic, we can't help our behaviour in these situations.Quote:
Originally Posted by trickytiger
Dear V. Thanks for sharing. I have 3 siblings I feel that way about, the fourth, well...see below.
Dear Mimi. I understand. I have a sister I don't talk to, becuase I'm afraid of what I might say to her (see note to TT above), and it's all I can do to be civil. You can't choose you're family. It is soooooo true.
Dear Buddha of compassion, please guide me towards a place where I can see my sister's suffering and accept it as greater than I can ever understand and allow me to find some compassion for her, even though she self destructing and is messing up her own life as well as those of her children.
Dear other TE cool cool ladies
after having a good cry I told Raleighdon about my sister. and HE said
you don't have to answer her nasty letters and you don't have to shut the door.
a great weight was lifted from my shoulders.
So although i still have no relationship with my sister, and she's not going to
ever like me because of things I did when i was 13, at least I don't have to try to defend myself or tell her to go away. Just doing nothing...
ahh
thank you all. Some of it is surely genetic, but in my sister's case, she suffered a lot of abuse and neglect by adults but continues to blame me, another child/victim. ah well.
thank you. thank you all.
Dear driver of the huge white truck,
Yes, I heard you. How could anyone not hear that huge engine. And I have to admit that as I heard your truck behind me my first thoughts were of an aggressive driver barreling down the road - because lets face it, that is what most people associate with those big trucks. But you know, you definitely restored my confidence in humanity by doing what you did. Thank you for noticing little old me on my bike. (Although I have no idea how you saw me from your 4 story truck). But thank you. Thank you for recognizing that when the other car pulled quickly into the bike lane cutting me off, my only options were to either ram into the back of the car or swerve into your lane forcing you to hit me. So thank you. Thank you for being an attentive driver and giving me room to swerve over so we could all avoid a horrible accident.
Very humbly and gratefully yours
This is brilliant. Sometimes we just don't think of the obvious because we are too close to the situation. Can't see the forest for the trees, etc...Quote:
Originally Posted by mimitabby
Isn't it great to have an intuitive partner? :p
DEAR BOSS-MAN!!!,
I DON'T APPRECIATE YOUR FREAKIN DOUBLE STANDARD!!.
SEVERAL COMPLAINTS!!!
1. THE ENGINEER ASSIGNED TO MY PROJECT WENT AHEAD AND CREATED HIS OWN VERSION OF A DESIGN WITHOUT MY PERMISSION AND YOU ALLOWED IT. THEN YOU ALLOWED HIM TO INSERT IT INTO THE DESIGN WHEN THE DESIGN WAS TO BE FROZEN SOME TIME AGO. AND ITS OKAY??? IF I DID THAT YOU WOULD HAVE FIRED ME ON THE SPOT!!!!
2. I ASKED THE SAID ENGINEER TO ATTEND A FINAL DESIGN REVIEW WITH THE CUSTOMER IN FRONT OF YOU AND YOU TWO LEFT FOR A STARBUCK RUN. BOTH OF YOU COMPLETELY IGNORED ME!!! THE SAID ENGINEER SHOWED UP DURING THE LAST 5 MINUTES OF THE IMPORTANT MEETING. AND ITS OKAY?? YOU WOULD HAVE READ THE RIOT ACT AND FIRED ME ON THE SPOT!!!
3. I'M NOT IN COMPETITION WITH THE SAID ENGINEER. YET HE IS TRYING TO PROVE HE IS BETTER BY DESIGNING HIS VERSION... BTW IT FAILED MISERABLY DURING TEST. AND YOU ALLOW IT. "ITS OKAY!!" EXCUSE ME!!!!
I DON'T GET IT.... okay I do get it after 20+ years in engineering company. It's the good 'ol boy club. I don't get invited to weekend b-b-q, I don't get invited to coffee run with the boys. I don't get invited out to lunch with the boys, I really careless whas under the hood of those pee-pee extender cars.
THEY STILL DON'T GET IT AFTER HAVING TO PAY OUT $$$$ FOR LAST SEXUAL HARRASSMENT LAWSUIT.
I AM SO SO SICK OF THIS PLACE.. NO WONDER I'M HAVING HORRID MIGRANES EVERY WEEK.
ALMOST DONE WITH MY VENTING... THANK YOU!!!
almost time to sell my house, move up to Whidby Island with my roomie (her first home was built there with the help of her dad, a contractor). Buy a decent size plot and put up a cute little pre-fab for us, the two dogs and five cats. Return to our hippie lifestyle. GRRRR!!!! Oh and install solar electric and solar water heater... Just need well water, septic tank and a propane tank out in the back oh and a telephone line/DSL.
Please shuffle the states around so Texas is a bit closer to California, so it would be easier to get together with my tandem Captain and enjoy his intelligence and humor...and climbing legs. :p
Dear Supervisor of DH:
I know you two are meeting tomorrow about the expat job. C'mon, pick him. Send us to China for a year. I can snag a teaching job while we're there and would be able to ride my bike all year round. I'd love to learn some Mandarin and it would be hilarious to see my parents in Hong Kong if they'd come to visit us. Plus we've always wanted to live abroad...I feel like this is our chance.
We want to go! Pick us! Please!!!
Dear Mimitabby,
I have thought a number of times that you are one of the kindest, warmest, nicest people I've met recently. I have thought that when we've met in person and I often think it when I read your posts. I am sorry that your sister is not able to see through her own stuff to realize what a good-hearted soul you are. I'm glad the rest of us know it, though.
PS I have a difficult sister too, who does similar stuff to me. You have my total sympathy, believe me.
Dear Teigyr -
I just read the post about the pole dancing.
I am so sorry you had to deal with that. Take that lil' pretentious Seven owning (sorry Bikerz, you are not like that and you deserve a Seven) b*itch out to the local hills and ride her legs off.
Also trying to think of the snappy retort like "Oh, tee hee, you'll know about gearing, equipment and how :rolleyes: you sound saying that your Seven was maaaaade for you (because they all are) when you ride as much and as well as I do"
Dear Mimitabby, Sorry about your sister.
Dear Siblings, One of whom may read this :p Thanks for being my siblings.
Former PITA,
What has possessed you to decide to show up in front of my building to "talk" to me? I am so glad I took the bridge from the parking garage and didn't go through the front door. I have no idea how long you were waiting, but I could guess considering you started calling my office phone starting at 6 am. Your borderline stalker at that point.
I am over you. Done. Fin. No mas. We both made that quite clear through the last few emails. Maybe the fact that all of your emails are blocked from my accounts mean something to you also. Which you know this because you mentioned you couldn't get a hold of me any other way.
Lucky for you, this morning I didn't expect you and you had the upper hand. Now, I have the upper hand and I'm p!$$ed. I am not afraid of you, and if you want a face to face confrontation, that is what you will get. If you didn't get the hint from me turning back around and leaving the building this morning that I don't want to speak to you, if you try it again, trust me, you will know.
Sincerely,
A very empowered girl
who you don't want to mess with
good grief, Chick,
call the police! that's scary!
Hey CWR-
Do you carry a cell phone with you? Do you have an emergency contact person in Anchorage to help you out?
Please ensure if you do see dork boy again that you call the police.
I don't want to hear bad news about our CWR from Anchorage ok.
Sending Kit(& X)'s boot up to Anchorage should be a last resort.
Take care of yourself & be safe.
C
I do have a cell phone that I have with me. Yesterday I was walking in with my friend, which helped. Today there was no sign of him. If that means he gives up, good. He either A) got the reaction he wanted or B) realized I don't want to talk.
Dear School Board:
Thank you so much for changing your policy regarding water related field trips one week before our field trip. I am sure that there are many legal issues involved. Now teachers need to check the ages of the life guards employed by the pool or water park? Of course you know that those places employ high schools students, not all the lifeguards will be 21 years old.
Why didn't you just have the guts to make the policy say what you really wanted? You don't want water related field trips. Just freakin' say so!
It was especially kind of you to change this policy after several schools had already made end of the year plans.
Idiots!
Dear Nasty Child in the Red Van,
Clearly you have no manners. I hope you parents enjoy your teenage years.
Dear Drunk Man in the Truck,
Don't make chicken noises at a woman as she is riding her bike down the road - particularly this woman, because I will confront you.
Clearly you're an idiot and a loser.
Dear Fire Marshall;
I want to know if you will be measuring the surface area of my classroom walls to determine if I have more than 50% of them covered?
um, Veronica is on a roll! :D :D :D :D :D :D
Dear Self
bright yellow shells DO NOT protect you from the rain.
If there is even a SLIGHT chance of rain on your commute, CARRY a RAINcoat.
you have a good one.
Thank you.
Dear Drunk Man In Truck,
If you don't want to spill your beer, don't mess with Veronica. She carries dog spray. Which also works on vermin, I mean humans.
Dear person who stole the computer and front light off my bike while it was parked outside the gym
What do you intend doing with a cycle computer without the wires?
What do you intend doing with a front bike light without the bit that attaches it to the bike?
Why did you put me in a position of having to choose between pushing my bike home (about a 45 minute walk , including through some dodgy areas) or riding in the dark without a light?
Dear Flu.
Go away :mad: I'm tired of hacking & coughing plus it's hurting my head.
Go away flu, go away..shoo!
C
That's like the person who stole ONE glove from my helmet once. They didn't notice the other glove that was cushioning my frame against the metal pole, so they didn't get THAT glove. So...what the heck are you going to do with ONE GLOVE?? Ruined a brand new pair I had JUST BOUGHT. I figured it was a teenager. Obviously whoever stole your computer has no idea how they actually work.Quote:
Originally Posted by kiwi girl
When I lock my bike up outside a place, I now take my helmet, gloves, the main part of my bike computer which snaps on and off easily enough (because clueless kids would find it too easy and tempting even though it won't work without all the other parts), and my dog pepper spray (partly because I don't want to get sued if some kid sprays themselves while I'm not there!), and my lock key of course. At least I can toss it all into my helmet and carry it inside with me. The things we have to do.....:(
Dear Lottery Balls
could you please make sure you are lined up this Saturday ready to be picked in MY ORDER............... so I can stop going to work and have time to ride my bike,
Oh yeh and make it a few million for the jackpot cause one aint enuf!!!!!
Scarlet ;)
I thought it was so cool last year when you introduced me to the staff, by first telling them about my having done the AIDSLifecycle to LA. And as the days went by we "fell in love" as we realized what a perfect match I was for the job you had.
But....(isnt there always a 'but'), telling me to relax when I bring concerns to you...not aknowledging my my concerns about my performance...and finally freezing me out for a week....just isn't right.
Now..i'm gone from the job I hoped to retire from...this feels as bad as loosing a relationship. Now...I know for a fact that there's no one doing my job and someone else is gonna be faced with the very same mess I was.
Thanks...for nothing.
Dear xPITA,
Who is still a very large PITA!!!!! I guess in your little mind its nice to set up a gmail account and have spam and other things go to it and have that account fwd to my other account so I get tons of Spam and useless junk. How old are you again? So I understand your hurt that I'm not there anymore. Well I'm not. I have moved on and I'm happy with life. Get over it! Its your fault in the first place why I left. Acting like a teenager (or who knows what) to make yourself feel like a bigger person is just annoying. You really need some sense knocked into you. Right now, I wish I had that baseball bat to knock that sense into you. :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
Idiot.
Ok CWR... so when should Kit and I come up there and kick his shins in? Is tomorrow too soon? Gawd, what an idiot! :mad:
Keep on doing well and being happy in your life. That is the best revenge. :D
Can I come to that party too?
First it was stalking, this is harassment. It seems like there should be something you could do about this...