Dear So and So

[Owlie]

Dear BF--
You have no idea how much I was looking forward to seeing you next weekend...okay, I think you do. I'm sorry it can't happen and neither of us can do anything about it. (Does your boss just hate the idea of your wanting to take time off? This happened last time too.) Just survive the next month and a bit. You'll be back here before you know it.
Love,
Me.

Dear impatient driver--
Okay, so a bunch of kids tried to make an ill-advised and ill-timed street crossing. No, I was not about to start trying to move. Honking at me and the kids and then trying to cut me off on the other side of the intersection is not the correct response to the situation. You may have gotten your precious hot dogs ten seconds sooner, but you're still an a**.

Dear certain manufacturer of cycling shoes--
Apparently I'm some kind of freak. (Okay, we knew that, but not for this reason.) I actually want to put SPD pedals on a road bike? Shame on me! Maybe I want some quality, breathable road shoes one day. I don't think this should require me to buy new pedals. Telling me to go buy mountain shoes is not useful. Is it too difficult to make adaptors for your newer soles? I'm not going hiking around in the wilderness here. I don't need the testosterone-driven chunkiness of your MTB shoes that has managed to translate to its women's equivalent. The only ones that look as sleek as your road shoes are (surprise!) only available in men's. Know what? Screw you. I'm going to take my freak-heretic self and my cash and go buy myself some Keens. You clearly don't want the likes of me tarnishing the reputation of your shoes of Teh Awesome, so I clearly don't need to justify the existence of your line of MTB shoes.
--Someone who would have gladly bought your ridiculously expensive shoes had they worked with her pedals.