Dear So and So

[Bethany1]

Dear Doc Office and Insurance Companies,

I hate bills and I hate you both. Get it together and quit gouging people. We all know it doesn't really cost that much for a simple procedure or a doc visit that only took 5 minutes.


Sincerely,

Broke after paying this bill

[Biciclista]

i remember once my son had a swelling under his nail after a blunt force trauma. the doctor bent a paperclip, heated it and punctured his nail to release the pressure. He charged 200 dollars for that in 1990.

[marni]

A wise old Indians reaction to the explanation of daylight saving time.

"Only a white man would believe that you can cut a strip off of the top of a blanket, sew it onto the bottom of the blanket and end up with a bigger blanket."

[alexis_the_tiny]

Dear Self,

See what I meant when I said to stop Google stalking people? Now you've gone and found out that your ex-nemesis has the very life you wished so hard you had for years. How does that make you feel? Like crap? You deserve it. And do we even need to point out that this is the girl that your rat b*****d ex used to constantly make you feel inferior? So she's now a tech writer for an international website and she's still doing better than you are. Universe only knows why you feel the need to torture yourself this way.

You have a wonderful guy in your life now. You have the job you've wanted to do since you were 9 years old and 6 kids who are thrilled to see you every morning so you can go exploring to learn stuff. The communications industry is not your place. You were miserable, underweight, anorexic, smoking 2 packs a week and never had time to ride your bike or see your friends while in it. Don't even consider the idea of going back to it just to compete with her because that is just stupid. Jeez. Like you can afford another 5 years of therapy while paying for your second bachelor's degree. Quit Google stalking already. Sheesh.

Very Annoyed,
Your saner self.

[Biciclista]

Dear Enza
I love you on my lap but I need to get up and finish the stuff I need to do before I leave here this morning.
xx
warm lap.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Dear DH, please succumb already to my repeated clever hints and pleas for us to adopt a third kitty from the shelter. YES there is room on the bed and on our desks here at home for just one more!

[indysteel]

Dear DH, please succumb already to my repeated clever hints and pleas for us to adopt a third kitty from the shelter. YES there is room on the bed and on our desks here at home for just one more!

When you get done with your husband, will you start working on mine?

[SheFly]

Dear Software Gods --

I try not to ask for much, but can you PLEASE make this test in front of 90 MBA students and 3 faculty members run smoothly this afternoon? the deve team has been killing themselves to make this happen.

Many thanks.
Your grateful project manager (SheFly)

[limewave]

Dear Mom and Dad,

Yes, we are all very proud of my brother. And I wouldn't mind reading through all the newspaper articles and even watching a news clip or two, but I don't really care to have them shoved in my face. I just got back from racing in the country's largest xc race . . . and I didn't do too shabby. It would have been nice if you feigned interest. Ask me how the race went, the weekend, etc. before bombarding us with all the spectacular! details of my brother's life.

I spent most of my childhood years being dragged to my brother's events. I'm not angry at you, it was alright. Sometimes it does make me sad. I can't help but wonder what I would have done had I been given the opportunities that he had. But I'm happy now. I had to move to a new town, but it worked. I managed to become someone other than "the little sister . . . he has a sister?" Did you even notice???

Dear SIL--Yay for you! You're married to my brother! It's like being Prom Queen for the rest of the life. You have achieved status! Woooooo!

Dear Self--wow, you're more bitter than I thought. Let it go. Let it go . . . this too shall pass. You're not 14 anymore. You've achieved many awesome things on your own and made a wonderful life for yourself Take deep breaths, count to 10.

Dear DH's friends--stop calling me "the little sister" or I will beat your @ss. Oh wait, I already did. I smoked you at Iceman! Hah! Hahahahahahahaha!

[indysteel]

((((Limewave)))). Out of curiosity, have you ever expressed any of that to your parents? Do you think you could? Sometimes I have to remind myself with my own parents that I do have a voice now and can express my needs in ways that I couldn't as a child. I'm often surprised at how well they respond to it. Of course, I try to be civil about it and use a lot of "I" statements.

[SheFly]

Dear Software Gods -

Thanks for nothing. I'm going off to cry now.

Dear Limewave -

Getting parents to ask about bike races is difficult - I've done over 500, and they only just this year started to ask how they went. BUT - YAY you! And I might put that race on the bucket list...

SheFly

[Pax]

Limewave - I feel for you, it was the same way in my house. The family went to every pee wee basketball and later football game my brother played, even though he sat the bench... I lettered for four years in softball and tennis and my folks never came, not once.

[indysteel]

My parents ignored all three of their children equally.

[limewave]

My parents ignored all three of their children equally.

lol.

Now that I'm a parent I realize things just aren't that easy. And there are far worse things in life than having to follow my brother around Going to take a bubble bath and enjoy a glass of wine then be done with it. Too many other things to be thinking about!

[OakLeaf]

(((((limewave)))))

Although I've known for years how lucky I was not to have any brothers (achievements done by mere females would just have to be enough ), it's been more recently that I've understood that I was also super lucky that my parents didn't care what I did in sports. It's the only thing I have that's never been anything but mine in my own head. It's possible they're not doing your brother any favors, either ... just a thought.