Dear So and So

[trinena]

(I'm new to forum) Dear cold and flu - Yes you got the last word. I bragged that I was super woman since I got over my first cold and didn't catch the flu from my hubbie. Spoke to soon and now I'm missing the Amgen Tour and the brain cells I need for writing and teaching. I am humbled. Please go away so I can go to PT and swim. Dear asthma - please please keep under control with meds. so far so good!

Dear knee - please stop hurting so I can walk, run, ride.

Dear Dog - please be easy on me while your dad's away and stop sneaking away with my used kleenex.

Dear student - Yes I do know more than you. Listen and change your archaic notions about women.

[Kitsune06]

Dear M-
It felt really good to see you laughing and playing today. I didn't really expect the giggling, laughing and impromptu elbowing-fight we got into on the bench when I laughed and called you a b!tch for skipping our extraordinarily dull women's study class. Secretly, I was really glad you skipped the class that exasperates you the most to go out, enjoy your morning and have breakfast somewhere. I know ending that longterm relationship with your gf is hard on you. That and school, and your first nights alone, and finding a job... When I first met you, you wore it heavy on your shoulders and it was rare to see you smile. You're a funny, sweet woman. It'll all be ok and life will absolutely go on. You've got a friend in me, even if you don't want to talk about the personal stuff. I'll help however I can. I can tell you're a good person.


Dear T-
you're just like I was at 19. that's good and yet it's frightening. You really need to focus your thoughts and efforts. Life isn't about what attention you can get from other people- you're hawt and you know it... you don't need to be reminded over and over. You've been hurt before and you seek this constant reassurance to heal- I know it; I've been there... but the way you're going, you're gonna get hurt again. Please be safe. I'll be that friend for you who isn't 'interested' in you... sometimes you really need that person who will never need or want anything from you.
I know. I've been there.

Dear V-
I'm sorry your mom and future mom-in-law are completely taking control of your wedding planning. I'm sorry your fiance is making unreasonable demands of you when you don't have time and is making you feel bad sometimes. I'm sorry you have to work and go to school full time - both- and are still getting pressured on the wedding stuff. I really respect your drive for your future and your convictions in what's 'right'. I wish I could help more, but I just don't know how, other than to listen. I hope that's ok. I do care. A lot. You can cry any time you need to. Some times you just have to let go with someone who's not involved. I'll be there.

[KnottedYet]

Dear Universe,

There are times when I am so incredibly grateful to be middle-aged.

Thank you for letting me get this far.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Dear Universe,

There are times when I am so incredibly grateful to be middle-aged.

Thank you for letting me get this far.

Amen sister.

Bleeker, Mimi, you're both pretty blatant. I don't mind happy loving healthy straight couples (as long as they act G@y in public.)

Trek, I try my very best!

[Blueberry]

Dear Law Students:

Could you PLEASE come up with something to say in your on campus interviews. Most of you didn't bother to look up our practice areas, what office the interviewers were in (yes, you got that information), or anything else about the firm or us. You didn't even ask good questions. Is it really that hard????

Thank you to the few who were creative. It really is mind numbing to sit there for 8 hours doing 20 minute interviews. If I can't talk to you for 20 minutes, I'm not going to recommend that you get a call back.

-Grumpy, tired attorney

[snapdragen]

Dear tiny member of the management team. Just because you are 4'11" and have a voice like Minnie Mouse, doesn't mean we all think you're cute as pie. After asking you for the last month what items you would like on our meeting agenda - and telling you it would be finalized yesterday before I went home at 4 - you send me a list of crap late last night, after I've left. Why do you sit on this stuff, then try to make it look like I'm not doing my job? Do you not realize I keep every single email you send, just to cover my butt? You look like a fool.

///she's a tiny thing, maybe no one would notice if I buried her out in the garden......

[crazycanuck]

Perhaps she could go missing like Jimmy Hoffa

[elk]

Dear Man Down the Street

Today when I was driving home I saw you standing at the curb talking to someone while your wildly out of control dog ran around peeing on other people's lawns.

All I could think was that I was glad I wasn't riding by on my bike with my dog at that moment.

Your dog goes berserk whenever we even walk by your house, banging on the glass, roaring, ALmost leaping over the fence in her frenzy to get to us. If we had been rolling by while she was out..someone might be in the hospital this evening....

I don't get it. If you can't even control your dog while she's INSIDE your house, what on earth would make you believe that she's going to listen to you outside when freedom beckons?

And No I DON'T CARE if you think "she's friendly"...How would you like to be walking down the street minding your own business and have someone run right up into your face demanding your attention, punching you in the arm, slapping you on the back, pinching your butt? Well, that's what its like for other people's dogs when your "friendly dog" barrels up to them. I don't think you'd like it anymore than they do. And at that moment I'm not terribly concerned with appearing friendly myself.

If you're going to have a dog, please take the time to teach her at least basic manners....for everyone's safety, well being and freedom to move around in the world un harrassed. Hers included.

your P O'd and unfriendly neighbor.

[Wahine]

Dear Coach,

Thank you for making me turn some of my beliefs about myself inside out so I can get on with getting better at what I do.

Dear Mother Nature, Powers that be, Universe... Who ever's in charge of doling out genes, luck etc,

Thank you for giving me the health and strength to take my body to limits that many people could not. I am truly fortunate and I will try very hard to never take it for granted.

Sincerely,

Crazy running girl.