<p>To the totally and completely incompetent postal service-
So I stand in line for 40 minutes last week to drop off the yellow card to have my mail held for 3 days (because it was supposed to be safer than leaving it in the mailbox for someone to possibly pick out and see we would be away), and you idiots fail to hold my mail?? So today I call the Delivery manager at the PO and let him know that they failed to hold my mail last week, but I am back (only to find out from him that this happened to several people) and TODAY you IDIOTS hold my mail??? I AM HOME, you morons. That was supposed to be for LAST WEEK. READ THE &)@%<em>_</em>!(&&^ CARD, if you can read. And you want to know why people are frustrated with the wonderful service you provide?</p>
<p>to my eighth grade teacher:</p>
<p>i never told you this, but you were the most inspirational person iāve ever met. you were the only one who looked past simply reading off material from a textbook and sought to challenge us, push us to think critically, inspire our creativity. i owe it to you to have changed my outlook on life - to have given me such a thirst for intellectualism, and such a passion for truly learning and understanding, instead of just blindly regurgitating facts like weād been taught.
you showed us how thinking outside of the box was encouraged, that we needed to work to truly succeed. you taught us fluency in the language of intelligent humor, how to be accepting of differences, how to compromise, how to communicate effectively through writing, how to be mature.
someday i want to go up to you and tell you about how all of our accomplishments now were directly influenced by your teaching, even if it was years and years ago. i donāt know if you still teach at the same school, but iām sending you a ticket to my graduation. i hope youāll be able to be there to here me speak.
i think you would be so proud to see where your students are today.
i never told you how you were the one who gave me such a passion towards life, and how much of an impact you really made ā and i regret it everyday.</p>
<p>Before you end someoneās track career, I beg you to get some common sense about safety on the track. Sure,it may look all dramatic when an athlete collapses in pain just over the finish line in a relay race,and it may add to the drama when the teams just behind him have to leap over the supine form of the ādisabledā runner who is really just a drama queen. Someday this will change, but only if a Ohio State football recruit has a career ending injury on the track. Disqualify the team[s] who collapse in lane 1 in a relay race. It is not a question of whether someone tears an ACL or breaks a leg,but when.
Clean your starter pistol. If you wish,I will clean it for you and donate some blanks that were not made in the sixties. If you cannot do that,at least allow the mandated rest time between races to allow competitors some recovery when they are running races back-to back. That one nearly cost D a chance to go to state in her best event because you wanted to get back on schedule.Kudos to her for all the effort it took to suck it up and make it and for the bonus puke into the trash canā¦Wait the mandated 15 minutes between races,dude. Better yet,get a back-up starter pistol. The gate receipts would easily pay for a hundred of them.
Get some track officials who are a little younger than eighty years old.That old gallery of geezers at the finish line might be position of high honor after a lifetime of service, but some of these kids need a strong finish to get scholarships. I had a parent from an area school begging me for my video tape of his son who clearly finished third at regionals and headed to state. Instead of finishing third,he did not finish at all! The officials LOST him, and refused to see the video tape as proof.
AHHHH,now that feels better.</p>
<p>After explaining the U.S. college system to you upon your request many, many times and giving the input you asked for regarding what schools to visit on a college tour, why are you and your unhooked kid only looking at Yale, Dartmouth and Brown?</p>
<p>Dear Employer: WHY canāt I watch the eagles at work?
Dear Eagles: Please donāt hatch until I get home!!</p>
<p>Dear my high school college counselor,</p>
<p>When I visited you this past January during my winter break and told you that I wanted to transfer to an ivy league school, you furrowed your brow and told me that it would be a waste of a $70 application fee. You told me to not get my hopes up, and although you would fill out the counselorās report, you would not strongly advocate for my acceptance as you thought I was not worthy of such a high caliber education. You thought I was being overly ambitious and that I had lost touch with reality.</p>
<p>Well, I was accepted to that ivy league school. I did it without your guidance and without your support. I emailed you to let you know of my acceptance, and you responded with āCongratulations! But did either of us ever have any doubt?!ā Um, in case you forgot, YOU had doubt and told me not to even waste time applying.</p>
<p>What kills me now is knowing that you are going to boast to future parents and advisees about how you have had students accepted into top schools. <em>News Flash</em> Those of us who got into the top schools did it without any help from you. Donāt flatter yourself and find a new day job. The school is wasting its tuition dollars on your salary.</p>
<p>And by the wayā¦your kids are horribly ugly. You and your wife should not have reproduced; our species would have continued on just finely.</p>
<p>Looks like you chose the wrong person to harrass and make a victim of your road rage last monthā¦what kind of cowardly man would go out of his way to repeatedly flip off a woman while driving, simply because I was not driving over the speed limit ?
Please remember that there are children standing on the streets , waiting for school busses when you drive like a maniac as you did that day.
Your apology was forced by your attorney and about as sincere as a snake biteā¦but you will feel the financial impact of this for the next few years from the surcharges and fines !
What a fine dayā¦</p>
<p>I am SO SICK of you. </p>
<p>Iām sick of you telling me what a terrible person I amā¦whether indirectly or flat out.</p>
<p>Yes, not speaking to me or even acknowledging my presence when I walk in the door is the same as ignoring me, and NO, that is NOT okay.</p>
<p>Remember when I told you I was sorry?</p>
<p>I lied. Iām not sorry. I only said that because our roommate asked me to. Because I did NOTHING wrong until you decided to put words into the mouth of one of my best friends not just in front of me, but in front of our roommates. Iām a realistic personā¦I know it takes two to cause conflict. But I sat by myself for about 30 minutes going over it in my head, and I could think of NOTHING that I did to cause this.</p>
<p>You can talk as much crap as you want about me, but you WILL NOT sit there and badmouth my friends in front of me and expect me to say nothing.</p>
<p>You owe me and him an apology. A REAL freaking apology, not this āIām sorry butā crap you seem to be so fond of.</p>
<p>And I donāt know how you were raised, but where I come from saying things to other people that you wonāt say to my face is called āgossipā, not āseeing if anyone agrees with you/shares your feelingsā. And you obviously had trouble saying it to my face, since you didnāt speak to me for two days after this whole debacle.</p>
<p>And thatās another thing. What the hell kind of 19-year-old gets mad at someoneānot annoyed, legitimately MADāfor not walking home from class with you? Itās in the middle of the day, and you still have someone to walk home withā¦so I have no idea what youāre so upset about.</p>
<p>I want a real freaking apologyā¦especially for those text messages you sent me. That was the most mean-spirited and hurtful thing anyone has ever said to me. And it just makes it even worse that you took the time and effort to type it out and send it to me via text rather than just say it to meā¦and then have the gall to call ME a drama queen? Grow up, princess.</p>
<p>Iām done. And really, itās your loss. Because not only did you lose my respect and friendship, but none of my friends or family like you anymore, and youāre missing out with them. Because theyāre some pretty epic people. And frankly, you need all the friends you can get. </p>
<p>Iām sorry you seem to be incapable of feeling emotion or forming relationshipsā¦but donāt take it out on me because I have close friends, kay? It just makes you look like a jerk. Bigtime. My friends know it, and letās face it, two of our roommates know it. You have the other two failed, but Iām thinking deep down they realize it too.</p>
<p>Iām a reasonable person. It takes a lot to get me downright angry. But Iām done playing your games and putting up with your crap. You go ahead and think Iām the scum of the earth, and that my friends are thieves and jerks who arenāt worth your time.</p>
<p>Youāre the one missing out. I wonāt miss you at all.</p>
<p>Dear Hypocrisy,</p>
<p>Stop telling me I will go to Hell. Newsflash, I donāt believe in your religionāand believe me (I know you hate to admit it) Iāve already been through hell. I went through it and I came out aliveāmaybe not stronger or saner, and definitely no longer innocent but I am still here. I have an amazing future to look forward to.
And you know what, Iām finally over the fact that you never thanked me for saving your life despite everything youāve done to me. And just so you know, I didnāt do it for you. I did it because I didnāt ever want to have to hear the words: āYou were supposed to be her best friend, how did you not know she was suicidal?ā I didnāt want that burden, especially since you never valued me as a best friend. I stayed loyal to you, I kept your damn secrets and helped you write your English papers. I didnāt badger you about your choice in guys nor did I blink when you told me about S and how you thought you were lesbian. I supported you even when I thought you were being stupid and stopped you when you were making a bad choice. And what repayment do I get? You tried to break apart me and J, you criticized my choice in C, and you damned me to Hell. You lied to me but expected me to always believe in you. Well Iām done with all that. Iām done with your narrow-minded judgments. Iām done with your holier-than-thou artist attitude. Iām done with your hypocrisy.
And guess what, J is still my best friend. Iām not in hell, and Iām stronger and saner than you.
I donāt miss you at all.</p>
<p>oh goodyā¦Iāll try.</p>
<p>āhey, Mrs G, ever stopped to think that YOU are the reason your kid is a drama-queen?
You canāt have it both waysā¦if he wants to be different, and act different, donāt complain when he gets treated differentā</p>
<p>a positive one from me</p>
<p>J, I love you. Thank you for being there for me, for standing by me after my fallout with W. Thank you for giving me that nicknameāyouāll always be the only one with the right to say it. Iām sorry I still have your grey hoodie, but then again, you have my black one. I say weāre even. You are one of the best friends I could ever have, even if you didnāt always pick up your phone when I needed you the most. You always know how to make me smile!</p>
<p>Dear Upstairs Neighbor,
shut up, Shut Up, SHUT UP! You AND your bark-non-stop dogs.</p>
<p>You are in very deep financial trouble and your kids feel terribly guilty, to the point where your adult children, who have children of their own, are ready to risk their own financial health in order to help you out. You took loans after loans, and refinanced your mortgage time and again, each time taking out more money, in order to send your kids to a very expensive private university. You failed to save for retirement, and made myriad other financial mistakes along the way. On top of it, your kids had to take out their own huge student loans (and at least one of your kids is still paying years and years after graduation). </p>
<p>You leveraged your retirement and your future, and now that you have hit the age when you are supposed to be planning your retirement years, there is no light at the end of the tunnel for you. You will never be able to stop working, and your kids will have to rescue you. So, instead of saving for their own childrensā college educations, your kids will be keeping a roof over your heads. </p>
<p>Why did it never occur to you that the greatest gift that you could have given to your kids would have been the peace of mind that comes from knowing you, their parents, are happy and financially secure in your retirement years?</p>
<p>Man up, okay? The car is 11 years old and has 147,000 miles on it. Itās going to need some work from time to time. Itās no oneās fault, and you are too old for a temper tantrum.</p>
<p>:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:</p>
<p>More tattooes??? Are you kidding me? What were you thinking? I know itās all the rage at this point in your life and is very acceptable in your peer community. But what about twenty years from now??? It grieves me to think youāll have this stuff on your body(that you work so hard on in the gym every day) for the rest of your life. I know at 23, itās very cool but other people donāt see it that way.</p>
<p>Now itās too late. I really want to tell you exactly how much I hate it but I think you already know and since itās done, I guess thereās really no pointā¦but I still hate that your are such a smart handsome guy ( a true officer and a gentleman) and people who donāt know you will assume otherwise if they see the tattooesā¦note to self sonā¦keep your shirt on.</p>
<p>when I think about all of the heartbroken, childless couples who would sacrifice everything within their means just to have a child, it breaks my heart. It breaks because you neglect and ( it is seeming more and more likely ) abuse your two babies. It worries me because you are putting them at great risk and I fear that something terrible is going to happen.
Get it together</p>
<p>Dear Guidance Counselorā¦I know that you are EXTREMELY busy at our very small public school, but could you have at least told us students about the 2 ED schools in our state so that I would not have completely missed out on scholorships and fellowshipsā¦no I am sure that waiting til November to apply for school and, oh donāt even bother with scholarships until Jan. is the way to go. I hope you retire or leave soon! You are inept in every sense of the word, telling kids not to take the ACT cuz they canāt make it in a 4 year college is NOT counseling.Telling kids that , well, the last kid is always the dumbest anyways, is NOT counseling. At the end of this year, there will be letters sent , although i do not think anything will change I can always hope!</p>
<p>Hereās another guidance counselor one:</p>
<p>Dear Guidance Counselor, why is it that you only push Gonzaga and on occasion Creighton University on the kids? Our kids have no interest in attending those schools. Theyāre reaching a lot higher. Oh, and the next time you reject another kid for lack of leadership to NHS, remember non-Catholics can qualify for this distinction without participating in Catholic run activities. Everyone is laughing and ridiculing you behind your back.</p>
<p>To D: </p>
<p>Shut up and start taking control over your life. Are you going to listen to your parents your whole life? For goodness sake, study more, woman! Do more! Donāt loaf around expecting people to cater to you because youāre pretty. Either start studying more or exercise more, because I donāt see doing neither helping you in the future. I hate youāre so USELESS. </p>
<p>To R: </p>
<p>CUT YOUR HAIR. Itās annoying, and you look like a hobo. Do you have to move so slowly, too? </p>
<p>To F: </p>
<p>Youāre a horrible person. Grow up, learn people skills, and stop acting immorally. If you go to worship night, act like a Christian! Donāt talk the talk but not walk the walk. Also, stop looking down at other people when they donāt score as high as you. </p>
<p>To M: </p>
<p>Get off your arse and work harder. Youāre causing our parents a lot of trouble. I once believed that you were as tall as the sky and there was nothing you couldnāt do. Seeing you destroy yourself with idleness is driving me insane. </p>
<p>To Rs: </p>
<p>No, I donāt want to stay in China. Stop asking me!!! I know my parents will be lonely, but they have each other, and they have their relatives. Itās not my duty to take care of my parents NOW; I will in the future when I come back to WORK. </p>
<p>To E: </p>
<p>Youāre very annoying. Blaming your lab partners when you get a bad grade? We wouldnāt have gotten a bad grade if you werenāt so CASUAL about the whole thing! Seriously, we did our work; if you didnāt like it, you could have TOLD US. Freak you; Iām not working with you again in the future. </p>
<p>To M: </p>
<p>I canāt believe youāre leaving just to get into a UC. What happened to you, by the way? You used to be so smart, and now I get better grades than you. </p>
<p>To highschool dating people: </p>
<p>Most of you arenāt going to last. Whatās the point? Freaking bunniesā¦ Most of you are going to get pregnant or get someone pregnant sooo early. </p>
<p>To Ms. H: </p>
<p>I hate your class. Itās evil, and youāre evil.</p>
<p>Truth is, you spent your entire adulthood living as though you were entitled. You did not pursue a career that would have left you in better shape financially. Now you live off of a paltry government check and because you canāt afford basics like the rest of us, you criticize the things we say, the ways we think, the activities we enjoy. You are losing your mental capacity as well as your hearing capacity, and the latter is because you lack funds. The former is because you have become someone who only has criticism, loneliness and anxiety to offer others. I have reached out to you to help stave off all the problems that come from loneliness, but after several attempts, I think itās time to back off and let someone else take on this burden if they so wish. Good luck.</p>