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Anyone else need to vent?
Call it an open letter forum, WTFs, or whatever you'd like, but feel free to get anything off your chest.
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Dear Area Landlords,
I'm not sure exactly why you are so unconcerned about filling your rentals. If I call or email today, I expect a response within 48 hours. I would think that's common courtesy to respond to any interested parties.
Also, my German Shepherd is the best damned pet you would ever consider allowing into your rental! She is the reason we've met a good share of our neighbors and brought the neighborhood together. Having had her in our current duplex since she was a BABY, after we've left, you won't be able to tell we've had a dog there as she's caused NO harm to the property. So "Mr. 'No to a German Shepherd'" Landlord, I hope you rent your duplex to some ankle-biter and I hope it bites you!
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Dear General Public,
I know it's your opinion that everyone should buy a house. I know they're offering great tax incentives to purchase right now. But if we say we have decided to continue renting after you've asked, please butt out and trust our decision. If you'd like for us to detail why we've chosen to remain renters, don't push buying because of the tax incentives. We do not want to buy right now - we do not have a sizable down payment and to purchase a home right now would leave us financially strapped, with nothing for necessary repairs or improvements.
Back the eff off!
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Dear Renting Public,
I don't believe most of you have gotten the memo. Winter is NOT the time to move, so stop jumping on properties we're interested in so when the Landlords finally DO call us or email us in return to our inquiries, they are no longer calling to say it's already rented. (No joke: listings for 3 properties we were interested in were posted and within 36 hours, they were rented alerady. We never even got the CHANCE to rent the property!)
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Re: Anyone else need to vent?
Dear Life,
YOU SUCK!
Dear mom & stepdad,
Please stop calling the baby OSCAR. Its not his name and it was cute of you at first but now your telling everyone and they are emailing me asking how oscar is doing. THAT IS NOT HIS NAME.
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Dear Doctor,
Please give me good news on Wedsneday, because anything else will shove me over the edge.
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Dear SIL,
Get off of my MIL's back. If she wants to come up when he is born, step off her case. You dont run her life and this is her first grandchild afterall, youll get your turn eventually but stop bossing her around!
Dear Cold/Virus,
Please leave my family alone, TIA!
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Dear DH,
Please, please, please pass all of your classes. I don't want to be paying for classes over and over again
I completely agree with your general public one and would like to say ditto and I have met your puppy and would attest to the fact that she is ridiculously sweet.
Dear BIL,
You need to grow up. You are 30 years old and you aren't always going to get what you want. So don't sit and pout when everything doesn't go your way or take your toys and go home. Grow the eff up. I swear to god if you are rude or try to act like you know more about babies than my mother I will smack you. You read books and looked on the internet. My mother raised four children, mostly alone because my dad was always working. She knows way more than you do, stop trying to act like you do. I would tell you off but i really need you to help me move. Also YOUR WELCOME for using my gift certiticate to buy you and my sister dinner, it was nice of you to act like you were doing me a favor by coming when i invited you.
Dear Husband,
When I said can you please shovel I didn't mean shovel two spots in front of our house to put the garabage cans out. It was nice to come out to a bunch of snow I had to walk and drive through. Also don't say I will do whatever you need me to when I am off this week and then when I give you a list you don't say anything and say you will take care of it. Then when i ask you why you didn't shovel you say ok I will just shovel on top of everything else you asked me to do, well then don't freaking ask for a list of things I want done if you are going to complain and be a big penis about it.
Dear office manager,
Please stay in St. Maarten for a very long time. Also stop emailing and calling me everyday. You are gone for most of the year and I have been running this office for years. I am good, stop calling.
Jo, I may actually need to ask you to do that. LOL I will be asking my next door neighbors (3 of them in total) for references soon so I can give them to future landlords.
Yikes... this is a bit harsh.
I hope you're alright!
not a problem!
Dear 2010 & crappy contractors.
you're already off to a rocky start, I believe everyone should be given a mental health day for the first Monday of the year. All of my consultants have been on vacation over the past two weeks, I've returned to my office to find all hell breaking loose on several projects, I myself was in the office over the holiday and could have been reached and problems could have been avoided, but no, we all waited until today to dump a load of crap on me that I can't possibly give you answers to at this exact moment. I am only one person, you are many, I produce documents for the explicit purpose of you following them, they are directive and come with a specification manual if the drawings themselves do not give you enough information, it is not my fault you're just not bothering to look at both of these items FOUR months into the project and what you've built doesn't match the drawings and now you want to produce more drawings to match what you actually built, this is not how the game is played a-hole! ugh. I need coffee.
I'm fine physically, just having a lot of things going on at once and it just gets old. My poor mind cannot stop racing and even my sleep is interrupted by tossing and turning wondering if tomorrow is going to be any better. One day things will be better...that's what I keep telling myself anyways.
Dear friend who is dating a guy I dislike:
It's not YOU! I love hanging out with you. I just don't like him. Please stop trying to force MH and I to like him. We aren't ever going to. But we will still hang out with you when he's not around.
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Dear friend with lots of kids:
I don't have kids. I know I have a big house. But I don't have kids. Maybe I will have them, maybe I won't. Until the day I tell you I'm pregnant, perhaps you should just assume MH and I aren't ever going to have kids rather than asking me EVERY single time you see me when we are going to have kids to "fill up" our house. Maybe our house is full enough as it is.
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Dear same friend with lots of kids:
I do NOT want to live in Richmond. I like my life. I realize that you can't understand why I would want to live here when I could make SO much money in Richmond. Here's why: I would have to SPEND all that money just to live in a small house that I wouldn't like nearly as much as my current house. And I don't NEED to live in a city to feel like I've "made it". FYI: YOU haven't "made it." You don't even work and have had to refinance you house FOUR times just to have a little bit of money. Oh, and FWIW, I make twice as much here as I would in Richmond.
Dear Mandy's friend who wants her to live in Richmond:
Richmond is a very scary place and I would not want to live there! The country is much better than the city!