Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Letters


I got this idea from "M"

I wish we could send messages or little notes to the people we encounter throughout the day just to let them in on the impression they left during our brief interaction.


Dear: man driving behind me today. You were yelling, honking and gesticulating wildly as I obeyed the traffic laws in the school zone and were practically frothing at the mouth when I heeded the" no right on red between 2pm and 4pm" sign. I hope your head spontaneously explodes from your rage disorder. Have a nice day. P.S. Gore lost 7 years ago. You can scrape off the 18 bumper stickers now.


Dear: Lab lady at the doctors office. I'm glad you care so much about my health that you decided to rile me up with admonitions and accusations about my health management just before you took my blood pressure reading. I'm sure it helped tremendously.


Dear Doctor: I don't want to go on a litany of life altering medications just because my cholesterol, BP are on the high normal range. don't you think maybe sending me to a nutritionist or offering some lifestyle suggestions would be a better option before chucking a hogshead full of pills at me? Oh sorry, I forgot you are the guy who went to school for eight years to learn how to write an illegible prescription.


Dear: Neighbor lady: I'm so pleased that you invited my daughter to your son's birthday party on Saturday. I'm sure you are blissfully unaware that your little angel spent all of last year punching, throwing rocks at and humiliating my child. I hope you understand when I respectfully decline your invitation and hope your stinking brat is allergic to cake.


Dear Neighbor guy: Hi! Nice to meet you. I have only lived 2 houses down for almost nine years. I hold no hard feelings for when you called the neighborhood association on me twice without speaking to me to my face about the weeds in the drainage ditch or the size of boards I used when I built my new fence. When you finally decided to speak to me in the grocery store please forgive me if I really wasn't paying attention.


Dear Target employee partner boy man dude: When I asked if your store carried door knobs and you replied "I dunno" and went back to scratching at the lice that infest that greasy disgusting mop of hair on your head, just remember: you are probably going to be here the rest of your life.






28 Comments:

At October 30, 2007 at 2:53 PM , Anonymous Fyremandoug said...

Its the Target Boy I have had my fill of, they are such a ignorant subspecies

 
At October 30, 2007 at 3:17 PM , Anonymous katherine. said...

Dear Hammer blog guy: nice job making me laugh at your life....especially the parts that are exactly like mine.

 
At October 30, 2007 at 3:31 PM , Anonymous Erica said...

Dear long-haired Texan with the beard and funny blog: I suppose if you met any nice non-dooshbags, they wouldn't be worth writing about, since it wouldn't be as funny. Am I right?

 
At October 30, 2007 at 4:57 PM , Anonymous FHB said...

You kill me. Hilarious. Yep, your neighbor and a few of my neighbors should get together and eat some bad tunafish and die a slow and painful death on the john. Sheesh.

 
At October 30, 2007 at 5:15 PM , Anonymous CrystalChick said...

Dear Trick-or-Treaters... your costumes better not be lame like last year or I'll open up the Reeses cups I was planning on giving out and eat them myself. Oh hell, even if the costumes are better, I think I'll pretend I'm not home and eat the candy anyway...while blogging, of course. ;)

 
At October 30, 2007 at 6:57 PM , Anonymous Scarlet said...

Life is the same all over, isn't it? At least you make it funny where it could be pathetic and sad.

 
At October 30, 2007 at 7:05 PM , Anonymous Hammer said...

fyremandoug: You speak the truth sir.

katherine: my pleasure :D

Erica: as soon as I meet some I'll let you know :P

FHB: with a side of raw chicken :)

Crystalchick: yeah lame costumes are just getting one of those free mints I stole from olive garden.

Scarlet: yeah we've got to laugh at all this stuff or die 10 years early.

 
At October 30, 2007 at 7:38 PM , Anonymous World Champ Stephen Neal said...

Dear Hammer,

I've got a hammer for you.

 
At October 30, 2007 at 8:03 PM , Anonymous Ordinary Janet said...

I'm gonna steal this idea soon!

Sounds like you've had your share of asshole encounters lately. Good thing you have us! ;-)

 
At October 30, 2007 at 8:36 PM , Anonymous Jerry in Indiana said...

Hammer,
Day-umm. And I thought I was having a bad day.

 
At October 30, 2007 at 9:06 PM , Anonymous nanc said...

hammer - you know those little digitized message machines at the bank tellers booth that state the latest deals and interest rates - and it's always in obnoxious red?

wellllll, i came up with an idea a couple of years ago that they'd be great in the rear window or rear bumper of your car - you'd have a type pad on your steering wheel so let's say you're passing someone with their finger up their noses to their elbow, you could type in the keyboard, "HEY, IDIOT IN THE RED FORD LICENSE PLATE XXX-OOO - PICK A WINNER FOR MEEEEE!" or some other absurdity.

or, "HEY, WHAT'S YOUR SIGN?" "MINE'S SLIPPERY WHEN WET!"

it would be fun, no?

 
At October 30, 2007 at 9:55 PM , Anonymous Dorky Dad said...

Dear Hammer:

Um ... I uh ... don't know what to write here, so I, uh ... will just, um, say that Target employees should wash their hair. Yeah. That's it.

DD

 
At October 30, 2007 at 10:22 PM , Anonymous Yoga Gal said...

Great letters!

 
At October 31, 2007 at 1:56 AM , Anonymous Odat said...

This is a great idea...love it....I may steal it soon too...
Peace

 
At October 31, 2007 at 5:29 AM , Anonymous Jeannie said...

Why is it considered rude to spout such truths directly at other people?

 
At October 31, 2007 at 6:13 AM , Anonymous Kate said...

this is great - now you've really got me thinking! mind if I steal the idea?

 
At October 31, 2007 at 6:37 AM , Anonymous Cheesy said...

My Dearest Ham~~
Dude man...
You need to pack up your lovely family and move to Oregon..take deep breaths. Take up meditation babe!
Hugs!!
Hippychick Cheesy Gurlie

 
At October 31, 2007 at 8:16 AM , Anonymous Kat said...

I have this image stuck in my head now of you running around with a pad of sticky notes...

 
At October 31, 2007 at 8:39 AM , Anonymous Schmoopie said...

Happy Halloween Hammer!

 
At October 31, 2007 at 9:28 AM , Anonymous steph said...

Do you feel better now? Because I wouldn't until I had hunted down and beaten bloody every single person you mentioned.

 
At October 31, 2007 at 9:53 AM , Anonymous tweetey30 said...

Those were great and I agree with you on all counts. Hope today is better. LOL..

 
At October 31, 2007 at 9:53 AM , Anonymous The Loon said...

Hammer, you are truly brilliant for coming up with the perfect way to deal with the goof-offs of daily life!

May the Family Hammer have a Howlingly Happy Halloween!

 
At October 31, 2007 at 10:44 AM , Anonymous Burfica said...

Oh I so think of little letters I wanna give people every day. hehehehe

 
At October 31, 2007 at 1:40 PM , Anonymous JAM said...

Dude, I'm gonna have to try this.

 
At October 31, 2007 at 7:22 PM , Anonymous terri said...

This looks VERY therapeutic. Might have to give this a try sometime!

 
At November 1, 2007 at 12:47 PM , Anonymous Oswegan said...

I called a software saleman from my office once to ask for pricing on certain product. He said, "Dude, you can check our web site for that information."

I work for a five billion dollar company, "thanks dude."

Very funny. Adding you to my bloggers that rock list.

 
At November 3, 2007 at 3:41 PM , Anonymous M said...

HAHAHAHA!! excellent

 
At November 4, 2007 at 10:58 AM , Anonymous Dan O. said...

I think most of us have these "letters" in our head during these encounters.

When driving I simply express the letter with American sign language. Also known as "the finger".

In person, I'm not above speaking my thoughts out loud to let someone know how much of an asshole they are.

Of course a lot of people think that makes ME the asshole. So what. That's no surprise.

 

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