Dear So and So

[Bethany1]

Got everything cleaned up. Hopefully he starts doing better. It doesn't appear to be a UTI as of now.

Dear Public School,

I am tired of you asking for money for everything. Last week my kids came home saying they needed money for their sheet music and lunch for some college thing the day before this trip. This ended up costing me 35 dollars total.

A couple of weeks before I had to buy sheet music for a Disney theme choir show for your stupid fundraiser that charged 20 dollars a ticket. I don't have 40 dollars for my DH and I to give away.

My son came home needing money for nice restaurants (15+ dollars) for the honor choir trip for lunch and dinner for two two separate days that same week. What happened to McD's? While I'm glad the choir made 1st, I'm broke.

What happened to a sheet of paper that I need to sign and give money before my kids go on a trip a week or more before? That's how it worked when I was a kid.



Dear Loud-Mouthed Old Lady,

Call me whatever you want, but I meant it when I said "Geez lady, Shut up because no one cares" after you kept harassing the assistant manager while I making my purchase.

From,

the Lady Who Said What Everyone Else Wanted to Say



I just made sure to get out of the parking lot ASAP because I knew she'd be crazy enough to ram into my car or follow me around town. She did follow me out yelling something I couldn't make out but I was in the car before she could do anything.

My DD said the manager's jaw dropped and he about fell over in laughter as she tried not to die of embarrassment right behind me.

I get customer service and retail, but no manager should have to deal with crazy customers like this.


Dear Nature's Miracle Cat Cleaner,

This stuff is awesome. My house smells so much better.

From,

Able To Breathe Now

[Crankin]

Bethany,
Are you OK?
Please pardon my big mouth, but you sound stressed and irritable.

[Trek420]

Dear so called management at the company I've been happy to work for these umpteen years,

You've insulted a friend when two of you joked about her weight and called her fat. It's unprofessional, rude, and possibly fireable at your level. You've truly exceeded your level of competence. It's rude, mean, uncalled for and so against policy it's not funny.

[BodhiTree]

You've insulted a friend when two of you joked about her weight and called her fat. It's unprofessional, rude, and possibly fireable at your level. You've truly exceeded your level of competence. It's rude, mean, uncalled for and so against policy it's not funny.

Report it.

[Trek420]

Report it.

Will advise her to do that! It's hearsay from me but I will get her the number for EEO.

[malkin]

I learned it can still be harassment or hostile environment if I overhear something at work even if it wasn't directed at me.

[Trek420]

I learned it can still be harassment or hostile environment if I overhear something at work even if it wasn't directed at me.

But I can't report it because the two ditwad so-called managers (one has a pattern of being just plain mean) were talking in the vicinity of a friend of ours who reported the conversation to her. But I did not hear the two dimwits talking.

I trust both sources, good reps, honest people, ethical, especially the one who actually heard the managers. So I believe the conversation happened.

But a report from me is hearsay? I may be too far removed.

So I advised both to call EEO department, talk to the union if they want, whistle-blowers need not fear retaliation, and that if they still fear to do so it can be anonymous.

[Bethany1]

Bethany,
Are you OK?
Please pardon my big mouth, but you sound stressed and irritable.

I've been stressed for about a month. It's like everything hit at once and my body and mind hasn't adjusted. Between my basement flooding, not having heat for 3 days, schools begging for money, anxiety/depression, a significant drop in income and the last straw was finding my cat had (has been) peed all over my cycling clothes has me completely frazzled. I had washed them a couple of times and they still reeked of cat urine. I lashed out at the lady in the pet store only because I was trying to purchase cat cleaner and couldn't think straight with her yelling at the manager who was doing my sale.

Turns out apple cider vinegar mixed with laundry detergent does the trick and my cycling clothes are back to normal. At least I feel better about that.

Today the weather was nice and doing about 2 miles before my body gave out helped with the stress. I'm wondering if I have exercise induced asthma and need to see a doc. Either that or I somehow manage to burn through energy so fast I bonk and don't know why. I have a love/hate relationship with cycling.

[Owlie]

I've been stressed for about a month. It's like everything hit at once and my body and mind hasn't adjusted. Between my basement flooding, not having heat for 3 days, schools begging for money, anxiety/depression, a significant drop in income and the last straw was finding my cat had (has been) peed all over my cycling clothes has me completely frazzled. I had washed them a couple of times and they still reeked of cat urine. I lashed out at the lady in the pet store only because I was trying to purchase cat cleaner and couldn't think straight with her yelling at the manager who was doing my sale.

Turns out apple cider vinegar mixed with laundry detergent does the trick and my cycling clothes are back to normal. At least I feel better about that.

Today the weather was nice and doing about 2 miles before my body gave out helped with the stress. I'm wondering if I have exercise induced asthma and need to see a doc. Either that or I somehow manage to burn through energy so fast I bonk and don't know why. I have a love/hate relationship with cycling.

Have you been sick recently? Food? Either way, ((hugs)). That's a lot to throw at you in one go.

Dear parents:
Why, for the first 15 or so years of my life, were you convinced that the only way to cook vegetables was to boil the living daylight out of them? I would have eaten far more vegetables had they been roasted! (Roasted cauliflower is delicious, everyone!)
Me.

[tangentgirl]

Dear parents:
Why, for the first 15 or so years of my life, were you convinced that the only way to cook vegetables was to boil the living daylight out of them? I would have eaten far more vegetables had they been roasted! (Roasted cauliflower is delicious, everyone!)
Me.

No idea what they were thinking back in the day. None. Why won't tangentgirl eat her veggies? Oh, because boiled frozen peas are freakin disgusting. How was that enjoyable to them, as adults?

+100 on the roasted veggies. And sauteed, and grilled. And lightly steamed.

[OakLeaf]

Roasted parsnips. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Just sayin'.

[snapdragen]

Roasted anything! I recently did roasted baby bok choy -- yum!

[indysteel]

Roasted parsnips. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Just sayin'.

+1. I like to roast a mixture of carrots, parsnips, new potatoes and red onions together with just a bit of olive oil, kosher salt and pepper.

[ultraviolet]

(Roasted cauliflower is delicious, everyone!)

Curry roasted cauliflower is one of my favorite snacks. I alternate it with roasted kale "chips" as a popcorn/chip substitute when watching movies at home.

[OakLeaf]

What's the trick to keep kale chips from getting bitter? I usually wind up with a pile that are half delicious and half nearly inedible, and I don't know what makes the difference.