Dear So and So

[jobob]

Thanks for the well wishes ladies. I can already tell the difference, no heartburny feeling! I'm sore where the little incisions were made, 4 in all. If it gets too bad I pop a vicodin and fall asleep.

Drugz are good!

Aw crud, I shouldn't have made you laugh when I called you from Solvang!!! Bad Jo.

[snapdragen]

Ooh. No stitches, just tape. Tape that I appear to be slightly allergic to. Greaaaat.

[jobob]

Oh now, that is special.

[snapdragen]

Oh now, that is special.

[crazycanuck]

Dear Bureau of Meteorology,

You're forgiven & we thank you for not forecasting rain for sunday.

Thank you!
WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHARRR!!!!!!!

happy mtn biker

[Crankin]

Dear Neighbor with Dog,
I know you see no need to put your dog on a leash when you are standing in your driveway, talking to the DPW workers cleaning up the debris in the street. And wildly yelling "Warning, dog is on the street," or some inane thing when I am going down the hill at 20 when your dog runs out to chase me doesn't help.
At first I thought your dog wasn't going to chase me, but it did. Right when I was starting a little uphill. No way could I beat your dog. I almost rammed the cr*p out of your little darling, but I feared the damage to my bike.
Please, after 3 incidents with us on our bikes and your dog, can you get the message?

[laura*]

Dear motorists:

When the school bus's lights are flashing red, and the little stop sign unfolds from the side of the bus, you are supposed to STOP!

Dear school bus operators:

Perhaps you'd have better compliance by motorists if you stopped in middle of the traffic lane, got rid of the stupid yellow flashing lights, and instead started your red flashing lights a long way before the stop - like school buses did when I was growing up.

Instead you pull so far off the road that two cars could parallel park between the road and your bus, you run the flashing yellow warning lights so long everyone looses interest in watching them, and you switch to the red lights so briefly that each bulb probably blinks on only three times. I bet that the folding stop arm never even stops moving - that it starts retracting the instant it reaches full extension!


(I happened to be out on my bike at just the right time for a rare for me (about once a year) sighting of school buses in action.)

[emily_in_nc]

Dear Neighbor with Dog,
I know you see no need to put your dog on a leash when you are standing in your driveway, talking to the DPW workers cleaning up the debris in the street. And wildly yelling "Warning, dog is on the street," or some inane thing when I am going down the hill at 20 when your dog runs out to chase me doesn't help.
At first I thought your dog wasn't going to chase me, but it did. Right when I was starting a little uphill. No way could I beat your dog. I almost rammed the cr*p out of your little darling, but I feared the damage to my bike.
Please, after 3 incidents with us on our bikes and your dog, can you get the message?

Is there a leash law in your county or town? If so, I'd call and report them. It's not safe for dogs to be running loose anywhere near the road. As you know, I fractured my pelvis when two loose dogs ran out at me in the road in 2005. There was a leash law, so my out-of-pocket expenses were paid by the dog owners' homeowners' insurance. But that was a drop in the bucket compared to the after-effects of the fracture that limits my cycling ability and causes pain to this day. You could also seriously hurt or kill the dog, which would be no walk in the park either.