Dear So and So

[mimitabby]

This is why my parents dropped BofA way back when they were farming. They'd send in two checks on the same day in the same envelope -- one a deposit and one a bill payment. BofA would charge the bill payment the same day, but spend 2-3 days creditting the deposit -- and charge them for the overdraft that caused.

!!!!!!!

[chickwhorips]

another dissatisfied BofA customer.

if it wasn't for Alaska Airlines having 1 mile per $1 through BofA i wouldn't keep them.

[Trekhawk]

Dear Driver
If you dont know how to use the roundabout please please please avoid it. We only have 1 in the area so it shouldnt be hard.

This cyclist is so sick of nearly ending up in your boot because you slam on your brakes to give way to cars that are not in the roundabout. Heres a tip if you are in the roundabout you have the right of way.

[lph]

Dear LBS,

Yes, you have a nice owner. Yes, you have a cute Australian mechanic. Yes, I have spent hours and hours and lotsa lotsa cash in your store this winter, chatting with the both of you and getting my bike perfectly tuned.

That is exactly why I expect a bit more. I know it's spring, I know everybody else has suddenly remembered their bikes and drug them out from the inner corners of their basements and you have a lot to do - I don't care! I'm one of your best customers, and I booked an appointment ten days ago to fix a lot of things, the biggest being changing my rear derailleur. I even talked to both of you and we decided exactly which one to use. We agreed I'd drop my bike off Monday morning, and pick it up Monday afternoon. I need this bike, it's my car, and what keeps me sane.

I delivered my bike Monday morning, today. I phoned an hour later, to remind you of the derailleur we'd decided on.

SO WHY WAS MY BIKE HANGING ON THE RACK IN PIECES WHEN I CAME OVER AN HOUR BEFORE CLOSING TIME? And why, oh why, did it take until three minutes before closing time before the mechanic noticed that the rear derailleur needed to be changed???

I really would like to like you guys, but you're making it bl**dy difficult.

-signed, confused, and fuming

[mountainchick]

Dear virus thingamagigs living in my chestal section,

I would appreciate if you wouldn't decide to lie dormant an hour and a half before I am about to see the doctor. This always happens. I schedule an appointment for the doctor and you magically go away. They must think I'm nuts! I really am coughing up stuff, and it is hard to breath sometimes, and it ALWAYS happens after I start riding outside more than 2 days a week since the beginning of the year.

I would also appreciate it if you would cool it and leave me alone so when I actually get motivated to commute home from work I don't feel wiped out and gross. I reallyreallyreally want to ride for more than a week and a half at a time before having to take a break because I'm sick again.

Thanks a bunch,
Me (the brains of this whole operation)

[Grog]

Dear virus thingamagigs living in my chestal section,

I would appreciate if you wouldn't decide to lie dormant an hour and a half before I am about to see the doctor. This always happens. I schedule an appointment for the doctor and you magically go away. They must think I'm nuts! I really am coughing up stuff, and it is hard to breath sometimes, and it ALWAYS happens after I start riding outside more than 2 days a week since the beginning of the year.

I would also appreciate it if you would cool it and leave me alone so when I actually get motivated to commute home from work I don't feel wiped out and gross. I reallyreallyreally want to ride for more than a week and a half at a time before having to take a break because I'm sick again.

Thanks a bunch,
Me (the brains of this whole operation)

Maybe you should consider riding your bike along with your doctor? That would keep the nasties at bay.

[ace]

Dear force in the universe that plays a role in determining my health,

OK, I get it. I need to take care of myself. I need to not smoke, eat right, exercise and think about the level of stress I'm subjected to at work. I need to cut myself a break emotionally and not beat myself up about things that go wrong in my life. I GET IT, OK??? Now can you make my knee (and this sudden weird thing with my foot that's freaking me out) better? I am going to Italy in 7 weeks with my oldest friend, and after 10 years with no substantial vacation, all I want is to stroll around Florence and ride a bike down some Tuscan roads without pain. Is that too much to ask? You have more than amply proven your sense of the absurd by letting me be extremely healthy last year while ex-bf was sick and depressed and I was driving him around and feeding him and wiping his emotional butt so he could get well enough to dump me for his ex-gf, and then a week after he dumped me you put that freaking water on the floor for me to slip on and smash my knee. And then I had the fun of spending the holiday season popping pain pills and sitting in the dark in my house because every light bulb blew out in a one day span, and I couldn't stand up long enough to change them. And then there was the funny thing with you killing my refrigerator 2 days before Xmas so I had no ice for my knee until I got a new one (fridge, not knee) after Xmas (the footwork on the last two items may have been accomplished by one of your associates, but I know you had a hand in it!). Ha ha ha! Very amusing.

I am bowing down to you in all your magnificence, ok? Now please just take the pain away until 6/5, so I can train, go, and have fun?

With great respect,
Amy

[Blueberry]

Dear Driver
If you dont know how to use the roundabout please please please avoid it. We only have 1 in the area so it shouldnt be hard.

This cyclist is so sick of nearly ending up in your boot because you slam on your brakes to give way to cars that are not in the roundabout. Heres a tip if you are in the roundabout you have the right of way.

Amen! They're putting lots of these in here (one near us, and many more coming), and the drivers have not a clue what to do with them. Perhaps we need remedial drivers ed? They also speed up, pass right before the roundabout (thinking the bike can't keep up) and then slam on brakes. ARGH!

[Trekhawk]

Amen! They're putting lots of these in here (one near us, and many more coming), and the drivers have not a clue what to do with them. Perhaps we need remedial drivers ed? They also speed up, pass right before the roundabout (thinking the bike can't keep up) and then slam on brakes. ARGH!

One of the locals I know told me when they first put the roundabout in people just drove straight over the top of it.

I guess they are improving, I havent seen anyone do that.