Dear So and So

[weathergal]

I realized that after I posted that I was being kind of whiny. I may be tired and not be getting to spend much time at home (or biking), but at least I still have a home to go to. And yes, it's good that there aren't more deaths in Greensburg. Although they found two more bodies today. And miraculously, two people alive and trapped under the rubble.

[Zen]

My house was flooded last year (no basement) ...lost some artwork and have had no flooring except for a concrete slab.

But at least I have a slab and a roof.

I can't begin to imagine how devastating and demoralizing it would be to lose everything.

[BellaBeauty]

Im keeping up with it on the news, and Im so sorry. I can only imagine

Dear Lottery Gods

can I please win? please? please? I neeed help helping my parents out

[LBTC]

Dear person,

I will not forget that you were instrumental in creating he** for myself and my husband a few years ago, because we showed ethics and you were more interested in "being a leader". I know you know who threatened to kill our dogs, and who stopped everyone else from riding with us for a full year. I know you were not interested in seeing the ethical side of trail usage, maintenance, and building, nor in how to treat people.

Thanks in part to you and your actions I now have a fabulous job in a great city with flowers and early spring and a thriving and inclusive cycling community.

So when I have to talk to you about this work related matter, please understand that I do so only because I am professional in my work. I take no pleasure in hearing your voice, in picturing you on the other end of the phone, or in knowing that my task is to provide you with a company perk that I know you will abuse and misuse and that I would personally not approve if it were in my power. This is just a job and I do it because they pay me well and treat me with respect.

I offer no butterflies to you, only to all the people who have to communicate with you - poor people.

~T~

[SadieKate]

Dear Local Newspaper:

I came very close to canceling my subscription today. The local phone company just installed a new land line. Less than 10 mins later and you're already calling to sell me a subscription? Get real.

SK

PS - Phone installer, you are a super nice guy but did you have to pick up all the molasses cookies to take with you?

[Trek420]

Dear Local Newspaper:

I came very close to canceling my subscription today. The local phone company just installed a new land line. Less than 10 mins later and you're already calling to sell me a subscription? Get real.

SK

PS - Phone installer, you are a super nice guy but did you have to pick up all the molasses cookies to take with you?

Dear Local Phone Customer,

The number you just got is new to you, but numbers are like raindrops, they are recycled.

There are no new numbers. Odds are that your local paper did not even have clue one who they were calling, they just dialed randomly or had the number for the person who had YOUR number a year ago on their list of people to bother.

Get your numbers (phone, fax, cell, business....) listed on the national do not call list. It helps, it's free

wwww.donotcall.gov

Also SK, technicians do not take anything from a customer; food, flowers, chocolates nothing, nada, zip, zilch. They are well paid by us thank you and can buy their own cookies. I'm dead serious about this.

Even if the customer says "here, take these cookies" the answer is "no, thanks"

If the cookies bother you even a little PM me, will get you direct line to repair or call 611 from any land line.

[mimitabby]

Dear Local Phone Customer,

The number you just got is new to you, but numbers are like raindrops, they are recycled.

There are no new numbers. Odds are that your local paper did not even have clue one who they were calling, they just dialed randomly or had the number for the person who had YOUR number a year ago on their list of people to bother.

Get your numbers (phone, fax, cell, business....) listed on the national do not call list. It helps, it's free

wwww.donotcall.gov

Also SK, technicians do not take anything from a customer; food, flowers, chocolates nothing, nada, zip, zilch. They are well paid by us thank you and can buy their own cookies. I'm dead serious about this.

Even if the customer says "here, take these cookies" the answer is "no, thanks"

If the cookies bother you even a little PM me, will get you direct line to repair or call 611 from any land line.

ooooo. Talk about a direct line to goddess!

[SadieKate]

Dear Phone Co Goddess Trek,

Thank you but I just wanted to gripe. I had the number registered before I even griped on TE. I register every number I can and then I go recruit my neighbors' numbers just for the satisfaction. Of course, that isn't preventing the jerks from using the automated unidentifiable methods that take way too much effort to stop but that's another story.

No worries about the cookies. It just made me laugh and I'm saved from eating them myself. But thank you.

Now the DSL thingie isn't working. After the cookie-snatcher left, I un-tached the cord to put a longer one on and the phone stops working. Works fine without the DSL filter, but doesn't work with either of the filters shipped by the LPC (somebody was a tad too overachieving in the shipping depart. ). The filters must be over achievers also as the dial tone is now filtered out. And, yes, I'm 'taching the cord to the spot labeled "phone."

Arg.

SK (who is also enjoying the silence of a deceased cell phone)

PS - Trek, what kind of cookies do you like?