Dear So and So

[yellow]

(I'm bumping this as I'm having a particularly difficult time with dog and cat hair, polar fleece, and the demands of my new job.)

Dear Polartech People (Malden Mills),

Can you please make some polar fleece that sheds rather than attracts and holds for its lifetime the yellow dog hair and white cat hair that pervades my home? I am tired of looking like the abominable fur woman and having to carry around one of the masking tape roller things.

[Bad JuJu]

I know I'm a JuJu-come-lately on this thread, but wanna play anyway.

Dear Left Knee--
We're in this together. I've given you lots of R.I.C.E. and other TLC, tweaked my saddle position, foot position on the pedals, and let you have plenty of rest between rides. Now will you please stop b**ching and just enjoy the great outdoors with me and your buddy, Right Knee? She's perfectly happy spinning away--come on, be a teammate!

[SadieKate]

Dear So and So,

Thanks for having such funny girls on the TE forum.

SK

[fixedgeargirl]

Dear So and So,

Thanks for having such funny girls on the TE forum.

SK

Yeah that!!!!!

[Nanci]

Dear Eagles,

I know you are just birds and it would be anthropomorphic to assign human emotions to your instinctual behaviour. That being said, I woud like to thank you for sharing your lives with the world for the past several weeks. Imagine that, two birds, more popular than anything, anyone, ever, in history, except for the Pope. Everything you did, every action you took, was so caring and touching and loving and I was proud to be one of the millions of people who came to think of you as family. I had such high hopes for your potential offspring. I looked forward to watching the tiny babies grow into beautiful young birds- to seeing them fledge and leave the nest, perhaps to get a glimpse of them when they returned. I wish it had worked out that way.I spent hours upon hour participating vicariously in your private lives- neglecting work, missing sleep, rushing to check in first thing in the morning for any bit of news, staying awake far too late, just because I couldn't say goodnight.

I have two birds that live with me, two tiny pigeons, hardly what you would call distant relatives of yours, but so similar that every single thing you did was already familiar to me because of my own birds. As much as you are different, you are more the same. It comforts me to know that you don't feel emotion like we humans. It would break my heart if you did. If only we could all experience such a calm, loyal, caring relationship...I don't know what happens to older birds, those whose reproductive days are over. Pigeons- hey, in the wild, they are lucky to make it to two years of age. As a beloved pet, they may live to 25. Who's to say which life is more desireable? Is it better to live free, but exposed to the cruel whims of Mother Nature, "red of tooth and claw," or to live ten times as long as a pampered, but never free, pet? You're at the top of the food chain, so I guess I know how you'd vote. My little guys- I think they're happy- I hope they are. When I hug my birds tonight, please know, if I could, I'd be giving you a hug, too.

Love,

Nanci

[maillotpois]

Aaargh, Nanci. No fair makin' me cry.

[Lise]

Aaargh, Nanci. No fair makin' me cry.

Yeah.

Dear Creator Who Made Nanci,

She makes us cry all the time. But she is a very good writer, so we tolerate this.

Us gals at TE.

[DrBee]

Aaargh, Nanci. No fair makin' me cry.

Geesh Nanci.

*fishdr says to coworkers*...yah yah - I just put eyedrops in to help my contacts... that's not tears.... really.

[maillotpois]

This is pretty cool! Taking up from Ju-Ju's talking to body parts theme....

Dear Lungs:

I know you guys think I am expecting too much, but why do you have to be filled with gunk and make me sound like I have the SARS all the time? Some dude actually felt that he had to move his family away from me in the theater when we saw Ice Age 2. I feel like Typhoid Mary. How do you explain that you're not "sick" but your lungs are just rebelling? I guess you don't, you just let Mr. Howard Huges of Marin fear that he may have contracted avian flu.

Seriously, I know I've neglected you and really expected a lot out of you, and I've probably had asthma for a while and haven't done anything about it, but I'm working on it - inhalers, nose squirters, whatever you want I'll get it. I'll work with you here. We'll go to that weirdly named allergist doctor dude - you'll love him. Just let me get to the top of a climb without wheezing.

[DrBee]

Dear Bike Manufacturers,

Could you please have mercy on or girly bits and put quality stock saddles on your bikes with cushioning in all the right places? Happy girly bits make happy girls and happy SOs and happy people tend to spend more money.

Gratefully,
Fishdr

[nuthatch]

(I'm bumping this as I'm having a particularly difficult time with dog and cat hair, polar fleece, and the demands of my new job.)

Dear Polartech People (Malden Mills),

Can you please make some polar fleece that sheds rather than attracts and holds for its lifetime the yellow dog hair and white cat hair that pervades my home? I am tired of looking like the abominable fur woman and having to carry around one of the masking tape roller things.

Hear, hear!!! I've got so many coats and blankets that are half dog.

[snapdragen]

Hear, hear!!! I've got so many coats and blankets that are half dog.

If I drive with the windows down in my car, I have corgi fur swirling about my head......