Letters I want to write but don't...

Saturday, 11 April 2009

Letters I want to write but don't...
Dear Random Buff Guy next to me at 24 hour fitness,

Yes I am aware of my size, are you aware of your rudeness? Most of your breed leave me alone, but occasionally one like you must choose to stare at me while I work out - and not in a nice way. Watch your own machine and I will watch mine. You do realize that I am doing something about my weight perhaps you should something about your...

Dear Delivery Person,

Please do not park in the handicapped spots in front of my building - it is there for a sweet elderly person who no longer walks without assistance. Your apparent need to hurry cannot override her need for a close spot, please realize...

Dear Anxious Driver,

Yes you must be in a hurry when you need to cut me off on a neighborhood street but note that when you drive erratically you are endangering not just yourself and the children in your car but my children and myself. If your late then your late but better to be late then...

Dear Grocery store,

If I wasn't already using canvas bags, you have convinced me to do so with your flimsy bags. They break evertime I have to use one and they have so many holes in them they are useless as trash bags. I wish that you would consider...

Dear Corporate Empire of which I loathe,

Employees are not your slaves, you do not own them. Everyone needs a vacation and a break. Four days off is not enough, a week or two every year is necessary to recharge especially when you work 70 hour work weeks. When we no longer depend on you for money I will run your name into the ground at every appropriate moment and thank God we are free. Someday...

Dear Gym,

Thank you for such clean facilities, but as a favor to the users of the facilities please consider changing the channels on the TV's - no one needs 4 TV's on Fox news and 5 on ESPN and only 1 with local programming. Variety is the spice of life, and keeps working out from becoming tedious...

Dear Self,

Please stop panicking about time and time management, everything will work out for the best. Better you rest and get things done then sit and fret. Realize that you are not perfect and people will forgive you if you are busy and cannot help them with various activities and favors. In a month...

None of these will make it beyond my mind and this blog but there are days when one must vent!

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Bravo! Love them all, but grinned wickedly at your term "Corporate Empire." I couldn't help but think of it as the Evil Corporate Empire with a villain named Darth Chairman at it's head.
- 4/11/2009 2:19 PM
- BookMark61 (message)
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@HumbleWalk - love it - the next time I see my husband's boss I will think of this and laugh instead of wanting to find a ligh saber and attack! I was thinking of Star Wars when I wrote that...
- 4/11/2009 7:13 PM
- alexiah100 (message)
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@HumbleWalk - @alexiah100 - Y'all make me laugh!

This was a great post!!

I should write one, but it might do my temperament more harm than good given the target of my unwritten letter.
- 4/12/2009 12:51 AM
- Krissy_Cole (message)
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Oh, I loved this.
I agree about the gym. I wanna watch something with action while I'm working out, ;] not not fox news, thanks you. :D
- 4/12/2009 12:58 AM
- OperationOpenmind (message)
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very nice choices! i would write one to the random creepers who stare at me from the backseat of the car in front of me while waiting for the green light. but that would be a pretty long dear so-and-so =P
- 4/12/2009 12:58 AM
- beetunes (message)
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Heh, this was good, I enjoyed reading. Hope you feel less stressed! I love your profile pic, btw.
- 4/12/2009 1:08 AM
- just_the_average_jane (message)
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Brilliant! I should have thought about this years ago! brava!
- 4/12/2009 1:10 AM
- fading_roses19 (message)
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Great post. You must mail all these right away!! ;D
- 4/12/2009 2:42 AM
- TheL0ki (message)
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Haha... makes me want to write one of these. I think it'd be pretty darn long though. And "corporate empire" is hilarious. Does make me think of Star Wars a bit.... lol
- 4/12/2009 3:16 AM
- MochaSprinkle (message)
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love it!
- 4/12/2009 3:43 AM
- coffeeguru314 (message)
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Awesome haha. I love posts like this.
- 4/12/2009 3:52 AM
- suggestivetongue (message)
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Wow. I can't remember the last time I had so many comments - thanks everyone.

And it felt really really good to get these off my chest, sadly all of these incidents happened only this week.
- 4/12/2009 7:36 AM
- alexiah100 (message)
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Oh you have stated what I have felt for ages! Especially the grocery store.
- 4/12/2009 8:31 AM
- AnamcharaConcepts (message)
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I feel the same about all you have mentioned! haha great post
- 4/12/2009 5:38 PM
- tastytimmm (message)
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Haha. I'm definitely with you on those grocery bags.
I usually write these kind of letters, I just never send them.
- 4/12/2009 5:49 PM
- storiesandsinker (message)
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Amen to the gym. Every time I go there are 3 on ESPN, 3 on Judge Judy, and 3 on CNN, and anyways, they don't even have a way of listening to them. What's up with that???
- 4/12/2009 5:55 PM
- noselfdestruct (message)
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I hate how I have to specify paper bags at the grocery store. They don't even ask anymore.
- 4/12/2009 5:57 PM
- another_rebel_without_a_cause (message)
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i love this!

venting is good for you ;]
- 4/12/2009 5:58 PM
- rachelgoesrawrx@healthkicker (message)
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If the random buff guy gives you a hard time, throw a twinkie at him. The mere sight of a sweet treat may just kill him. :)

he's an asshole. You don't deserve that.
- 4/12/2009 6:02 PM
- Manstration (message)
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Hello, I feel you on the Delivery Truck one. I am not elderly but I am handicapped, and it annoys me when they do that to no end. Or when they park in front of the curb cuts... grrr...
- 4/12/2009 6:07 PM
- daydreamsjustcome (message)
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I agree with the corporate empire. There's no way to win though, and they know this. The goal is to create a modern lifestyle that is near impossible to maintain so that you'll be too busy to think about it.
- 4/12/2009 6:08 PM
- Randomness9933 (message)
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Ah the things we want to say but do not... the mysteries of life! Well written.
- 4/12/2009 6:11 PM
- CanadianReflection (message)
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Thanks everyone - I am flattered by the compliments - I often wish I would say some of this out loud to the people who should hear it... but alas I don't. Perhaps it's time to change that.
- 4/12/2009 6:20 PM
- alexiah100 (message)
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lol I relate to everything you wrote about :D
- 4/12/2009 6:24 PM
- Dylan_Disast3r (message)
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I feel ya! It's like an 'oh, I wish' moment. Too bad we can't always say exactly what we're thinking.
- 4/12/2009 6:30 PM
- ccarothers (message)
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