Dear So and So

[crazycanuck]

Dear dorky male rider by Murdoch uni this afternoon,

TAKE YOUR IPOD OFF...I shouldn't have to swear at people & yell "rider" 3 times before you hear me!!!!! If i wanted to bike 10km/hr I'd go behind you..

STAY TO THE LEFT...

FREAK.

Thank you & don't have a nice day

c

[Haudlady]

Dear Giant-Department-Store Clerk,

Please understand that the first time I said I didn't want a bag for my purchase (a single t-shirt), I meant that I did not want a bag.

Please understand that the second time I said I didn't want a bag... even though you laughed and said I would look silly walking across the parking lot without a bag... I meant that I did NOT want a bag.

Please understand that the reason I left the bag on the chair just inside the door, even though I knew you (and two other clerks) were staring at me in disbelief was that I DID NOT WANT A BAG!

Geesh.

[Kitsune06]

Dear little sister-
I can't tell you, without sounding like a total sap, how proud I am that you're coming into your own and being a strong young woman, making good decisions and doing well in school.

Keep being who you are, and you'll find someone proper to spend SAABJ Day with someone who is deserving and will appreciate you for the kickazz, savvy mechanic chick you are.

I'll have to let the little things suffice, posting pics of us as kids- remember how hot those polyester softball uniforms were??!- and sending you notes now and again. As embarrassed as I was that you tackled me when I came off the plane in WI, I wouldn't trade that experience for anything in the world. The airport security all took a collective sh!t because of you. They needed it. I needed it, too.

Thank you for telling our parents that it was okay with you that I had a girlfriend when I first had a human companion to go along with my feelings. I think it made all the difference in their reaction.

You don't always need to be so dark, you have a pretty smile- You don't need to be so quiet, you always have interesting things to say. You don't need to laugh off your close connections to the past- you have been, in many ways, the closest tie I've ever had to memories that get folded under the turbulence of everyday life.

They say you can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friends' noses... ...no. no, that wasn't it. You can't pick your family? Something like that. Anyway, I'd pick you anyway. I would maybe even pick your nose.

Loveya, sis. Have fun laughing at the guys who weren't good enough to spend SAABJ day with you this year.
~Aryn

[chickwhorips]

You don't always need to be so dark, you have a pretty smile

dear adopted little sister,
i agree with our other sister.

[Grog]

Dear Bald Eagles,

You've been flying over my head since the morning, as I was coming back from the pool, and once of you even graced me with two passages right in front of my room's window as I getting ready this morning. You followed me on my way to the office, and when I was having lunch outside to enjoy the warm sun you were still high up there. It's funny to see the pigeons and blackbirds try to fly like you, but never attaining your high beauty and, I must say, efficiency. You were still there when I walked back to my office. I'm having a very poor day at school, because just when I need to be most productive at writing I have all sorts of people coming to share their problems with me. But you make my spirit soar. Please be there when I walk out of my office tonight, I'll go out just before dark so it should be pretty for you as for me. If you would like to drop by my office window you're welcome too but I know I'm on ground level and that's just not the sort of thing you do.

Thanks...

[KnottedYet]

Dear Gods and Goddesses of Patience,

Maybe you didn't notice me the first time, cuz I was so brief and to the point? Please, send me a little? Actually, right now I could use a little perspective, too.

And as long as we're at it, why do I feel like I'm having a midlife crisis? Haven't I been having these since I was 13? And what's with the hot flashes AND acne AND gray hair AND raging adolescent-style hormones? And lets not forget the incipient moustache and Andy Rooney eyebrows. If this combination weren't so darn funny, I think I'd be crying right now.

If I can't have patience and perspective and a peaceful mid-life crisis, can I at least have another bottle of wine?

Sincerely yours,
Knot

[Kitsune06]

Dear Gods and Goddesses of Patience,
Please support Knot
Dear Gods and Goddesses of Perspective
Please support Knot
Dear PNW vinyards,
Please support Knot
Dear Knot
*hug*
~aryn

[susiej]

And lets not forget the incipient moustache and Andy Rooney eyebrows. If this combination weren't so darn funny, I think I'd be crying right now.

Sincerely yours,
Knot

Dear Toddler Son,

Stop playing with Mommy's "beard." Mommy has a chin. Daddy has a beard. She hasn't had time to wax this week because she's been cleaning her bike, reading board books, playing with playdough and cleaning the house.

Dear Knotted,

Do you think they give group electrolysis discounts?

(And don't tell anyone, but the Australian box wines aren't that bad and you get four bottles for the price of one.)

[mimitabby]

Dear Supermarket bagger of highschool age
I know it is really hard to understand, but the reason I arrived with my stuff in the brown paper bag was so that I didn't have to take a plastic bag.
When I then explained to you that I wanted it all in 1 bag, so you emptied my brown bag and one of the plastic bags and stuck it all in one plastic bag, except for my parsnips which did not make it into ANY bag. So when I was driving out and you stopped me, thanks for giving me the parsnips in the second plastic bag...
(pulling out hair now)

don't they get it??

[susiej]

Dear Supermarket bagger of highschool age
I know it is really hard to understand, but the reason I arrived with my stuff in the brown paper bag was so that I didn't have to take a plastic bag.
When I then explained to you that I wanted it all in 1 bag, so you emptied my brown bag and one of the plastic bags and stuck it all in one plastic bag, except for my parsnips which did not make it into ANY bag. So when I was driving out and you stopped me, thanks for giving me the parsnips in the second plastic bag...
(pulling out hair now)

don't they get it??

Nope. And they don't get it when I say "paper, no plastic" either, and pull the paper bag out of the plast and put the plastic bag on the counter.

Nor does anyone understand why I don't want one large item (a dozen toilet paper rolls, say) in one bag.

They DO seem to get it when you hand them a non-disposable bag (like the kind Whole Foods sells).

Then again, they're getting paid to work as fast as possible, and making a decision about number of bags for every customer would slow that down.

[crazycanuck]

Dear Australia Post & US Postal Service,Australian Customs & quarantine service

Have you seen the package RM sent me??? I know she didn't put the honey stingers in so i'm not in trouble for that

People don't send packages just to have thier respective country's postal service lose the item!

Curious in Australia (& Arizona)

C

[mary9761]

Dear one department doesn't have an idea of what the other is doing, has done or should be doing!
Thank you for screwing around long enough that I've gone since Thanksgiving with a herniated disc, not being able to watch my grandchildren, ride my bike or have much of a freaking life. I haven't seen my two grandsons since Christmas
Thank you for not knowing when my PCP made the referral for Neurosurgery that I ALREADY HAD my MRI just days before! Thank you for not letting Neuro know that I'd had my MRI so they didn't even MAKE my appointment after much questioning until mid February for APRIL 11!! Thanks Neurosurgery department for NOT returning my phone calls for MONTHS!
Thanks to all of you MORONS I have gone from sciatic pain in one leg and lower back pain with a bit of slowing down to me having to dig out my cane to walk to now me having EXTREME difficulty walking some days due to the fact I now have near excruciating pain in BOTH legs now and after spending nearly 12 hours at the freaking hospital with both my husband's appointment as well as waiting 4 hours for MY OWN, that I was hurting so bad and having so much difficulty walking that you suggested the possibility of USING A WALKER to get around better!!!! Thanks for taking me from a 46 year old grandmother who was active, riding 3500+ road miles last year, having a blast with my grandsons and getting healthier every day I was on the bike to a 46 year old near invalid that you're suggesting a FREAKING WALKER to in just a matter of a few months!!!!!
When I get seen Monday, (after MUCH squawking when the second leg got bad) Please make a wise decision and if there is any chance I need surgery don't screw around until I'm PARALYZED!!!! I WANT MY LIFE BACK!!
I'm losing my mind, I'm losing what few friends I have and I've lost nearly all of the fitness I had.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Oh, poor Mary!!!!!!!!!
(((((((((((((((((((((HUGHUGHUG)))))))))))))))))))))

[Wahine]

I'm so sorry to hear you are going through all this hassle. I deal with this sort of thing everyday and far too often people get shuffled around and fall through the cracks.

I'll be sending out good thoughts, hoping that the powers that be get off their azzes and take care of this.

[mary9761]

thanks, I've been so frustrated that I've just wanted to take that bloody cane and beat some sense into some people.