Dear powers-that-be.
Thank you for watching over me when I flew down the hill at 52 km/h with my front tire unclipped. And thanks for making me notice it 6 km later when I stopped at the store... I appreciate it.
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Dear powers-that-be.
Thank you for watching over me when I flew down the hill at 52 km/h with my front tire unclipped. And thanks for making me notice it 6 km later when I stopped at the store... I appreciate it.
Oh my gosh, kelownagirl!!!! Thank goodness you are ok!!! whew!:eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by kelownagirl
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Originally Posted by kelownagirl
Dear Powers That Be!!!!
Thanks for watching over kelownagirl! Ditto on that from me last year on that decent at 30 MPH. Please do the same for the rest of us this season, too. Thanks for letting me ride without dropping the other day when the teen decided that it would be great fun for him and his buddies to blow their air horn at me. Please tell the three men in the truck that it wasn't a lot of fun to be followed at 20 mph while they gawked at my behind. They could have passed me by - it was a two lane 30 mile and hour road and I know it didn't take 4 blocks for them to gain speed on me! Can I delude myself with thinking that, though??:cool:
Dear Self, 45 minutes worth of Tootsie Rolls don't make a nutritious lunch. Dear Other Self, You know you'll do it again, so don't be so hard on yourself about it next time. Dear Third Self, Step IN next time and remind me of this whole occasion so I stop eating them.
Dear Legs - YOU DID MORE THAN YOU THOUGHT YOU COULD LAST NIGHT!!! WAY TO GO!!! You can join in the celebration by walking in a fluid motion.
Me.
Dear Memphis Tigers,
You guys still did awesome. Don't let the arm-chair coaches get you down until they are the ones out there playing the game.
Note to self,Quote:
Originally Posted by kelownagirl
Are you listening. When pumping the tires before the ride, a quick check on the quick release is in order.
Yourself
Dear Lost Woman,
Why do you stop me on a cold wet rainy day at the top of a steep hill to ask for directions to the hospital? Do I have "Information Desk" or "All the Time in the World" printed on my bike? Do I look like I enjoy standing in the rain in the middle of the street giving out directions? Or did you think I was desperately in need of a rest break after that grueling hill? All I wanted was to get to work so I could change into my dry clothes. I hope you noticed that although I gave you the directions you needed, I didn't smile.
If I could do-over, I'd keep on pedalling. Either that, or give you directions to the bike shop.
Dear Brain,
what possessed you to go off on a club training ride when Body was clearly telling you "Hey - don't do that, I'm getting sick"? :confused: You should have more sense. As a result, you kept your group back, you were in a foul mood all evening and am now going to be properly sick instead of just glancing by a cold. Idiot.
((((lph)))) God bedring!Quote:
Originally Posted by lph
Tusen takk, "andemor" :)
Dear So and So
I don't know how i got so lucky, but in 1977, when I started dreaming about a guy who I never considered someone I'd date, I not only dated him, but married him less than a year later.
Today he did yet another of those little things that he does that makes him a keeper. On sunday we are planning to celebrate my nephew's birthday at my house and of course, my mother is being, uh, delicately obtusely annoying.
I asked her if she was coming to the party and she sent me a huffy note back "well, if I'm invited" At that VERY moment, my knight in shining armor had finished crafting an upbeat, jocular INVITATION for all members of the family. She had to have received it a moment after she'd hit the send button
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzing!
And he gave me lots of chocolate last night.
life is good
get better, lph!! So hard to know when to push through and try to let fresh air kill the germs, and when to lie down all quiet 'til it goes away.
Here's to keepers and the goodnesses of life :)
Dear Powers that Be;
Thank you for waiting until I had finished Party Pardee before the pinch flat I probably got by hauling over the railroad tracks near the end completely flattened my tire.
Pretty please, also let the 'pulmonary nodes' found on my sister's lungs be nothing cancerous and be totally treatable. She's been through enough. :(
Signed,
me
And here's to good luck and good fate, deedolce!
dear Mom,
you're a smart, hardworking and extremely independent woman. You've lived by yourself for years in several different countries, some of them rather turbulent, you're a freelancer and you speak, like, 6 languages. Sooooo.... when a stranger in Nigeria suddenly wants to give you almost a million dollars - yes, honey, it IS a scam. You don't have to ask me how to prove it :rolleyes:
Dear Queen -
Hugely belated hugs and condolences about your dad. Reading your Easter bunny post made me cry. Sorry I have been out of the loop. Hang in there.
- me
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Dear Self-Designated Super Lawyer Co-Counsel:
I will accept that this is YOUR client and YOU want to control the relationship, including limiting what I am given and what I can produce in this litigation. (I have, however, taken an ethical TUMS to allow me to proceed under these directives.) I will accept having you be the go-between to YOUR client since I am only the silly attorney hired by your client's insurance company to defend this case. I will take direction from you. I will even put up with your terse and critical emails about the recommendations that I make (which recommendations you then invariably adopt, with no apparent chagrin.)
But I draw the line at doing legal research for you. I am a litigation attorney who has been practicing for 16 years. I have tried cases. I presently act as a private judge in complex litigation cases. I've been on boards of directors for litigation practice groups and have met with state senators/assemblymen at the Capitol helping to guide them in making law. Do you really feel it necessary to send me something you'd like me to look up for you in WESTLAW? Do you realize that even though you are male, you, too, have access to the INTERNET??
Harumph.
- me, Esq.
oh, I love lawyer letters!! :D:D:cool::cool::p:p
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Originally Posted by maillotpois
Dear Fiona
You are SO CUTE when you walk with your leash in your mouth, strutting along & letting your show dog blood shine through!
Dear DH's job,
I know May is your busiest month and he is valuable but PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE let him off for an anniversary trip.
Dear Bitter VP,
I realize that things are changing rapidly within your organization, and you can't tell everyone the details of all of the things that are happening. However, I'd like to suggest that outright lying to them is maybe not the best way to handle the situation.
I know you have some bitterness over the fact that you are not as well-liked as your predecessor, but you haven't really done anything so far to engender the trust of the people that you're expecting to fall in line behind you.
Just a few thoughts:
- If you claim to have an Open Door Policy, you should consider actually opening the door on occasion.
- When asked a direct question, consider occasionally giving a direct answer. If you *always* sidestep even the easy questions, people will simply stop asking you any questions at all.
- Have enough respect for your employees to deal with them directly if they actually come to you themselves for clarification.
- Don't lie. (Really, that's just a good rule for all of us, whether in our professional or personal lives.)
I wish your employees the best, and I'll truly miss working with such a dynamic and intelligent group of people who seemed to be truly interested in solving the problems they were presented with on this project. I hope you decide to start treating them like the valuable professionals they are, instead of the unruly children you seem to think they are. They deserve better than that. And you'll get better work from them if you show them a little respect.
As for me, I'll be moving on to help solve other problems at other organizations, because that's what I do. I hope to find another team of people who are willing to dig in and do the difficult work that I'll challenge them with on a daily basis. And, as always, I hope to find leadership that does more than pay the occasional bit of lip service to the need for better customer and user experience.
Best Regards,
The Architect of Your Nightmares
Dear clueless woman at the nail salon today--
Do you realize that a puppy is a living being? And that a 4-week-old puppy should never be taken from its mother and carted around in a purse like some kind of accessory? (You didn't seem to get it when I pointed out that puppies should be with their mothers till they're 8 weeks old.) I hope the poor baby survives.:mad::mad::mad:
Dear woman @ train station after Western Force game last night..
Get your **$**$*$ knickers out of a knot..who cares if we make sheep noises in a crowd..
if you don't like it, go to the ballet :rolleyes:
BBBAAAAAAHHHHH, CC. I'm right there w/you, girl.
You should have told her to get over herself. ;)
Dear CC, we often make sheep noises in a crowd too, but it's usually cow noises that we enjoy making the most.Quote:
Originally Posted by crazycanuck
Dear former dog owners,
Once again I have the opportunity to transport yet another beautiful, sad, and confused family pet to a new home. I don't know your circumstances of the divorce, but ditching a dog at the local pound as a quick solution to your inconvenience is a no go in my book. There are other solutions that provide a better outcome for your dog. Fortunately, the shelter you dropped her off is very rescue friendly and they work diligently to get dogs into new homes.
Pets become very bonded with their families and divorce disrupts their lives and affects their emotional well being. If you don't believe me, walk back to the cages of a shelter and look into the eyes of a dislocated dog. I have seen dogs completely give up and die, even as shelter workers provided exercise, food, and affection.
My wish is that the new family will give ten fold to this beautiful dog that is a victim of divorce.
Signed,
one whose work is never done
+++ This goes for cat owners too. I have seen their sad faces too many times.
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Originally Posted by sundial
Dear ex-husband,
Thank you for sharing amicable joint custody of our four dogs for 12 years after our divorce.
Dear Internal Revenue Service:
Enclosed you will find my 2007 tax return showing that I owe $3,407.00 in taxes.
Please note the attached article from the USA Today newspaper; dated 12 November, wherein you will see the Pentagon (Department of Defense) is paying $171.50 per hammer and NASA has paid $600.00 per toilet seat.
I am enclosing four (4) toilet seats (valued @ $2,400) and six (6) hammers (valued @ $1,029), which I secured at Home Depot, bringing my total remittance to $3,429.00.
Please apply the overpayment of $22.00 to the " Presidential Election Fund," as noted on my return. You can do this inexpensively by sending them one (1) 1.5" Phillips Head screw (see aforementioned article from USA Today newspaper detailing how H.U.D. pays $22.00 each for 1.5" Phillips Head Screws).
One screw is enclosed for your convenience.
It has been a pleasure to pay my tax bill this year, and I look forward to paying it again next year.
Sincerely,
A Satisfied Taxpayer
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Originally Posted by sundial
That is priceless:D:D:D:DQuote:
Originally Posted by sundial
CA
Dear TE,
Thank for all of the positive energy, friendship and great advice you have given. This is a great place.
Dear Spring/Summery type weather,
Could you please be in BC & Alberta in time for our arrival? Please? If the forecast on the CBC site is correct, we're in for a shock!!!
Ok,yes it might be great to see snow after 8yrs but i've not driven in it!!
:o
Dear Body,
Thank you for being such a good sport and healing up so nicely after you got a week on the couch. Lungs - a special thanks to you for picking up on normal good working order again. Obsessive, don't-wanna-be-last-even-if-I-have-a-good-excuse Brain up here sure appreciates it :)
Dear Software Companies,
What is so fascinating about including all kinds of bells and whistles of useless software when a basic package with drivers is sufficient and mostly likely to have the most successful install and utilization? When I shell out the bucks for new hardware, why do I have to spend over 2 hours researching, uninstalling crap and rebooting for known common problems.
For instance, Google taskbar and search: I work for approximately the 27th largest company in the US with 30-some thousand employees, and they forbid both because they don't play nicely with business apps. I just did the recommended automatic install last night and all things IE related crashed. Two uninstalls and one reboot later IE is working again. Given that I already have problems with IE and Google that are so unfixable that my 1 week old laptop has to be replaced, I'm a tad cranky. Neither of these apps have anything to do at all with the actual operation of your hardware. They are just frills. Please don't go on Happy Hour binges with Google sales people any longer, m'kay?
Next I have a delightful morning wrestling with another app for the same hardware. I signed into the work network and BOOM! everything freezes. I can't even get the task manager to pop. WTF? 3 hard reboots later, I give up and use a personal computer to research the problem only to find that one of these stupid non-essential software apps is known to not play nicey, nicey with Cisco VPN. You think this could have been detected during install? Your product is titled "Office Edition." Let me think. Two people working from home in this household and 100% of us use Cisco VPN for either the aforementioned gigantic company or for another public employer who would be the 6th (or 5th?) largest economy in the world if it seceded from the US of A. Gosh, what are the chances that your product will be loaded to an office computer using Cisco VPN? Even I, a non-statistician, can figure that one out. The fix there only took 2 more re-boots to clear. And I’m still left with another SW app that I have to research getting it to not automatically start with each boot.
Oh wait a minute. I just figured out why you do it. It is so you can go giggle with Google during happy hour with all that time you’ve saved by not providing user manuals that cover all these apps.
K.I.S.S. and make your customers happy.
Dear husband. re the post above...thank you for my new Macbook! :)
Karen
Dear Tuckervill,
These products were designed for business use even with MS and Mac products. I haven't had these problems with Microsoft home-use products. Don't break out in a happy Mac dance over this . . . .:)
SK
Dear lady in the office with the new flowery perfume,
I realize that YOU like it, but do you have to bathe in it? Some of us are hypersensitive to smells and like-to-die every time you pass by. Thank goodness I don't work directly with you or I would say something.
Dear Realty Gods,
Please send someone to buy our house. It's only been on a week, but I am EXHAUSTED. The constant cleaning and waiting for a showing is stressful, more than I remember. I also feel like I'm living in someone else's house. I've washed the kitchen floor so much I think I'm going to wash a hole in the wood, especially with a dog and the cat putting paw prints on it all the time. I've been so busy I haven't really answered my emails, been on TE at all, or even been on my bike in a week. . .I think hear him crying from the garage at night. This weekend was a bust. Three showings Saturday and a last minute second showing Sunday that lasted forever. And all those strange people wandering through your rooms. . .yuck.
Goodness that felt good to rant about. That being said I'm trying to keep up with the cleaning a little each day and keeping positive that the right buyer will come along! Fingers crossed.
~Firenze
Dear So and So,
You know I luv ya, but your kid's a brat! I hate to say this, but I think it's all the yelling you do at her. Now, she doesn't know when you're serious or not, and it's confusing for her, so she never listens to you. I also think you need to cut back on the sugar you give her. She was bouncing off the walls after that lemonade, and it was not fun for me to be around her. I gave up the best riding day this week to be with you, and it was less than gold star.
Spending time with her does make me appreciate my decisons, though, so I'm grateful for that. Easy for me to criticize your parenting, since I don't have to do it. Don't think I could do it any better, btw.
Maybe come alone next time. You need a break. She's not easy for an afternoon, I don't know how you do it full time.
Dear insane lack of motivation,
I realize that home and summer break are only two weeks away, but could you please exert the minimal effort required to quit making me lurk the TE forums instead of picking up my philosophy books and actually reading so I pass and might be allowed to come back to school next year? Lovely.
Alex
ummm.... me too? please???Quote:
Originally Posted by applegum
Dear (unexpected) overnight guest:
I was more than happy to let you stay overnight Saturday as your furnace had died and it is still too cold here in MN to be without heat at night.
I was disappointed (and hurt) come Sunday morning when all you did was complain that the house was too cold, bed was too hard, the heat register made too much noise in the night so that you could not "get your beauty sleep". You even made a comment about getting up so early (8:00 a.m.) even though I'd informed you that I needed to leave no later than 10 am to go visit an elderly aunt out of town. I also got up early to make us a nice breakfast which I think is what a gracious hostess should do for company.
I'm certainly willing to help friends when necessary but phhllleaaaze . . . no whining or complaining, ok?
- Vmax