Dear So and So

[crazycanuck]

Dear Alipinerabbit..

At least you don't have to put up with the English football hooligans!! seeing that they didn't make it in!!!

[mountainchick]

Dear Chainlove,

Can you put up some women's gear that actually is worth buying? Some jerseys would be nice, thanks.

mountainchick

[bmccasland]

Dear Project Manager -
When the meeting is on thursday the 19th, why did you tell everyone that it's monday the 16th? Why was I not on the original email chain setting the dang thing up in the first place? On environmental restoration projects, it is usually a good idea to keep your biologists in the loop. Often those environmental benefits you count on can't actually be achieved, and I would have told you that early in the process, IF YOU KEPT ME IN THE LOOP!!!

[Aggie_Ama]

Dear Family,

I seriously question your motives with that little stunt yesterday. There is no way I will ever believe you have anyone's best interests at heart and you definitely have no right to treat my father that way. He was adopted 50 years ago, stop treating him like he is an outsider you shallow fools.

[Tuckervill]

Dear Fleas:

Please DIE.

My animals thank you.

Karen

[sundial]

Lol!

[MM_QFC!]

To the 26-yr old woman who hit me with her car –

I was on an easy, fun bike ride with my DGF on a local bike trail, on a recent Sunday afternoon, when I encountered you in a most unwelcome and traumatic manner. You chose to get behind the wheel and drive your car that same day, knowing that:
1) its brakes needed repair
2) you also chose to speed well above the speed limit, while ignoring numerous caution signs posted on both sides of the road and in advance of the crosswalk, alerting drivers to a bike trail crossing and pedestrian crosswalk
3) as well as reaching into the back seat to play with your 2-yr old nephew!
4) you told the police at the scene that you regularly smoke pot and indeed, had smoked some the night before, so they promptly took blood and sent off a toxicology test; DUI charges are pending per the prosecutor.

Hello! Can we say you ran right into me and my bike, as well as my DGF’s???!! I know that it wasn’t intentional, but geez, how careless can you be??

I know that you also benefited from our cycling fitness and good health, as you didn’t kill us and get charged with 2 counts of vehicular manslaughter (although I’m so very grateful to have not died as a result of your gross negligence and recklessness too!). Every witness (8) spoke of your excessive speed and their horror in watching what they thought was a double fatality, when they watched our bodies and bikes thrown in the air from the force of your car hitting us.
I learned soon after that you have a long history of traffic infractions and criminal cases – 1 case still open from just a couple of months ago – yet, you still thought it your right to get behind the wheel of a motor vehicle and put so many lives at risk??! Wtf! When the he!! are you going to learn to abide by the rules of the road and drive in a safe manner and stop being a threat to society whenever you drive??? There isn’t any question about you being 110% liable here and I’d say that you’re in pretty deep sh*t right now…too damn bad, as I’m trying to deal with the all-too-many ways that you’ve negatively impacted/changed my life this year…

I’ve been riding my bike, as an AIDS rider, since 1997. I have thousands and thousands of training miles, plus AIDS ride event miles as experience; I’ve ridden across numerous states, mountain passes, cities, back roads, trails, long suspension bridges, tunnels - every type of road surface and in widely varying traffic situations and I have NEVER had an experience like this! Prior to your really stupid and dangerous decisions/actions, I’ve never been in an accident, been hit by a car or caused an accident. Every year, I’ve raised money for AIDS services and research, now totaling over $100k.
In 1997 I committed myself to this cause as my main community service and each year, I raise money, train and then do the multi-day event ride – all to end AIDS in our world.
Within a few seconds, you have caused me lots of physical injuries, destroyed my bike and changed my life in that I was unable to move much at first, now I am unable to ride and I still do not have my broken bike returned to me yet, as the prosecutor is retaining it (in the evidence room at the police dept) for your trial. That bike was not just a high-end custom bike, which was my long-saved-up-for and well-researched dream bike, but more so, my main tool in my community service activities. You see, I cannot be an AIDS rider without my bike, or being able to ride. You took so much from me and I don’t want to hear any more horror stories or warnings about how your insurance company will try to get away without replacing my bike, as the law only provides for them to pay me the “market value” for what you destroyed so violently (and right under my azz, no less!!). You won’t find my Seven model listed on eBay or Craigslist anywhere, as it was built only for me and it was a personalized, time-consuming process to design and build for me and most custom owners don’t choose to sell their one-of-a-kind machines.
I don’t wish you any ill and am glad that it was me whom you hit and hurt and not an elderly person slowly walking across that crosswalk or a parent pushing a baby stroller, as the outcome would’ve certainly been fatal and it’s good that we were all spared that. I DO hope, though, that you’ve learned from this whole experience, so that it’s not repeated by you ever again.

(I realize that this turned into a novelette - that she'll (the ditwad driver) never read, but it helped to vent anyway...thanks, TE buddies
Mary