Dear So and So

[marni]

cold tea and teabag compresses help, especially if it gets on you face.

[Sky King]

Dear DH, Okay,after five days of over 100 degrees, I will be more open to the idea of a visit to west Texas where the high is 92...

[skhill]

Dear grass waterers,
Surely you noticed that we had nearly 2 inches of rain over the past two days? So why were your sprinklers going this morning, watering grass of all things? I'm sure they are programmed but come on, take some responsiblity here. And why water grass anyway? Sure, it'll go brown if we get a prolonged dry spell in the summer, but it'll green right back up as soon as the rain returns. It's a yard, not a golf course, for pete's sake!

[Owlie]

Dear mom--
Yes, I realize you want me to clean stuff out of my old room, and that I'm not home very often and you're trying to be helpful. However, no one touches my books. I've already taken what I want to get rid of to Half-Price Books. The rest of them are either books that I enjoy reading multiple times (I know you don't quite get that), books that I'm attached to (and those I think you agree with me on), or a couple that I haven't read yet. Hands off the books!

[OakLeaf]

Dear kinesiology tape manufacturers,

How many applications call for 5-strip fans? (not too dang many.) How many call for either a "Y" or a half strip? (lots) So how come the backing is marked only in 1-cm strips? Folding in half and cutting is a PITA.

Brand loyalty to the first one of y'all who puts a line down the center of the backing...

[Sky King]

Dear Self

When are you going to start listening to the sage advice from your brain!!! You know participating in any sort of side to side activity is recipe for disaster. So here you sit with leg in the air and a bag of ice and probably a week off the bike. At least it is the week of over 100 temperatures but still WTH were you thinking

[marni]

dear One hour ac,

On Tuesday you came and did a yearly routine check on both ac systems and marked everything as good. By thursday it was getting warm and the outside fan quite on Friday. We just spent the hottest weekend (for us) of the year in a house that we managed, just barely , to keep at 89 degrees by dint of non stop running of fans. So much for your warm reassuring words about service members getting priority service since when we called Saturday early, you scheduled us for a Monday afternoon appointment which you have just infomred me will be "sometime on Tuesday" instead. Can I also suggest that you guarantee of "competent professional drug free service technicians" is a bit suspect when the technician shows up on Tuesday, does his thing and the ac starts to go out a day and a half later whereas it had been functioning and cooling perfectly before the check. Obviously somebody forgot something, like sealing off the coolant, or fixing the possible puncture or whatever.

Call me a nasty customer if you will but I think I want my money back, after you fix the ac and don't charge me that is.

hot and definitely grumpy