Dear So and So

[Trek420]

Dear boss of the boss of my boss,

Your floor absorbed the residents of the floor above you doubling in size (minus those who quit, retired, got fired ....). Now years later our floor is supposed to squeeze in too (minus those who quit, retired, got fired ....).

You asked the DICOMSTAS (Department In Charge Of Making Sure Things Are Safe, sort of an internal OSHA here at the ... where am I? Oh, Organic Koala Chili Canning Works ) if it was ok to add us. They said "no, you're too crowded". They actually said "heck no". They said something else but this is a family forum.

You did it anyway.

Now you want to add the refugees from yet another chili factory whose office is moving (minus those who quit, retired, got fired ....).

The DICOMSTAS said no, you moved us anyway and moved more people in against their orders.

Any wonder why the DICOMSTAS director was inspecting today?

There's a floor above us which has been: newly remodeled, all new equipment and desks, more room, more light, more than 4 stalls for the women the electrical system is actually designed to work for the load .... we could be there.

Why not? Your office would be smaller.

You can have this entire floor for your office and all of your junk for all we care. Let my coworkers move upstairs where it's safe. If I do get a new job soon or quit, retire, get fired I'd like to leave the Chili Works a safer place.

[OakLeaf]

Dear feral dogs who showed up at our house last year and would not leave, no matter how long it had been since your last meal - who would not be trapped, no matter how delectable the bait - and who would not be tamed, no matter how often you ate from our hands or how curious you were about our comings and goings -

It's true, for most of the past 15 months I wished you would just leave, and now that you're gone, I wish you would come back.

I feel guilty about leaving for a long weekend, even though I topped your food dishes up extra tall and left an extra water dish, even though you'd been "home" alone for that long before, in worse weather.

I know better than to hope that you might be safe someplace else. So with two wishes I will try to let go of you: that whatever happened to you was quick; and that in puppy-dog heaven you will finally experience reciprocal love for someone other than each other.

[Becky]

Geez Oak, that's heartbreaking! I'm sorry, and thank you for all that you did for them.

[indysteel]

((((Oak)))). As someone who had grown attached to her "own" feral animals, I know I'm in risky emotional territory myself and appreciate how you must feel. You did what you could for these animal--and more than a lot of people would have. Hopefully they're in a better place now.