Say it here cause yo can't say it directly- the get it off your chest thread

[cameliasinensis]

Dear sweet sentimental self,

If you don't want to get hurt, you should try expecting less of people. It might help you. I'm just saying.

Be careful,
Your better judgment

[wolfpiper]

To my professor:
Thank you for telling me the truth; even though you, uh, really didn't need to, I'm glad you respect me enough to do so.

[LiveInLove115]

dear friend's parents: i know you two went to ivies. i get it. you don't have to brag ALL THE TIME. quit making me feel inferior, and quit making YOUR CHILD feel inferior because she can't get into the schools you went to.

[InternetMom]

Dear sisters,

I know that your resentment towards me in our childhood days was based on the lavish attention that I got -- being the last of 6 girls -- but now you need to move on. If our old 82 year old mother proudly talks about me and my family, do not hate me for that. I did not tell her to do so.

Every phone conversation that we have is mainly about you and your family. I listen, empathize, rejoice, advice while you relate your experiences. Why is it that every time I try to tell you my happy story, your phone suddenly needs charging. Funny thing is if I switch back to making you the center of the conversation, the phone battery magically gets recharged.

I too want to relate the events in my life – and no I am not bragging nor making it up. I just want to share my happiness with you my sisters just as how I shared in yours.

I stopped calling you for one year and I know you missed the listening ear. Now I am back to listening to you again. This time you spare me some talking time but what is that rustling sound I hear only when I am talking?

[Lafalum84]

To the lady who ALMOST HIT MY TWO KIDS while they were riding their bikes along with a group of people walking IN THE CROSSWALK in a resort with a 25 mile-per-hour-speed limit, because you were driving the world's largest s.u.v.AND TALKING ON YOUR CELL PHONE -

You slammed on the brakes, stopped, and backed up - almost hitting the car behind you, which your ginormous blind spot blocked - like if you backed up no one would notice you barrelled right into a crowded crosswalk even though it is clearly marked and the car in the oncoming lane had stopped and the crosswalk is between 2 stop signs less than 100 yards apart.

You have no idea how close I came to walking up to your window, rapping on it, smiling, and when you rolled it down grabbing your cell phone and THROWING IT IN THE POND ACROSS THE ROAD (the one with the "beware of alligator" sign). Maybe that will teach you not to talk on your cell phone while driving.

But thank you for not hitting my kids.

[klmcpa]

To my daughter's 4th grade teacher:

You told me that my daughter was a "square peg". I'm sure it's on the highlight film of your teaching career.

To my youngest daughter's math teacher:

Despite having "the lowest grade on the 10 question assessment quiz given on the first day of class" (an amazing diagnostic tool, I am sure!), my daughter got a B in your class. Ha Ha! Guess you were wrong - you told me that she would fail. Hmmm. Wrong.

[UCLAri]

Dear self,

You need to learn Korean. Fast.

[upstater05]

While I'm not a parent, I'm sure many of your children could relate to the following.

Dear High School Friends,

I couldn't care less how hard your small private LAC is. College is hard. Deal with it. I also don't appreciate your assumption that public schools are inherently lesser than private schools, and thus your discouraging remarks behind my back about how stupid I am for choosing a "lower ranked" public school over a "higher ranked" private school that most likely wouldn't have been a good match for me.

Secondly, bragging about how much you party at school is so incredibly lame. Get over it.

[cameliasinensis]

To my parents:

I need to know whether you'll be living in Stockholm or in New York City next year. It doesn't matter that I won't be living with you anymore. I leave Washington next week; the moving crew is leaving with our things in two weeks. What are you planning to tell them? I NEED TO KNOW THIS. Your other daughter -- the fourteen-year-old, the one who's going to be a high school sophomore in either of those cities in the fall -- needs to know this. You can't stall this decision anymore. WE NEED TO KNOW.

Exasperatedly,
Your daughter

[GA2012MOM]

To the admissions officers who turned down my daughter who was "extremely qualified" to X because you assumed I was not going to be the parent to contribute X dollars in the future, I still have the "wait-list" letter, I will forward it along with her Ivy league acceptance letters. Hope all of you who are"contributing" to the fund every year sleep well knowing that a lot of you bought your children's way into a school that they probably did not want to go to anyways.

[Amistad]

This thread is a good place to do anonymous venting. Let's keep it a place for doing a vent and then moving on without comment. If you want to provide support to people who are venting please send them a PM.

And please everyone remember our courtesy expectations.

Moderator Amistad

[deceptacon]

Dear Obnoxious Woman in My Community College Class,

There is a reason that no one older than a young child (who announces at every chance meeting that s/he is "six and three-quarters") opens a conversation with his or her age. In the vast majority of social and educational situations, it does not matter. I realize that I am younger than you, and that this bothers the living he*l out of you. But please, until I prove myself incapable of the work, discussion, and understanding that this course requires, stop reminding everyone that I am "only" fifteen years old at every fabricated opportunity. Perhaps you’re too busy with your own children, (who I quite clearly understood the first time are “not much younger than you!”) to complete the reading and writing assignments that the class requires, but the rest of us are here to listen to the professor’s lectures and to discuss those assignments in a respectful academic environment. For the sake of our fellow classmates, please stop wasting class time and testing my patience with backhanded compliments about my “competence”, in relation to my age.

Thanks,

On Her Last Nerve in Columbus

[cameliasinensis]

B,

I could never tell you this, of course, but I'm going to miss our conversations while I'm in Europe. I know two months is forever for how long we've known each other, but please don't forget about me just because I'm not around to remind you.

Nervously,
E

[Rachacha]

To the Middle School drama director - did you REALLY have to tell my daughter TO HER FACE, in front of her friends, that "...I don't think I want to put you in the musical next fall, (insert name), because you goof around too much" ? Why would you say that, after she practiced for hours ahead of time, auditioned well, and was invited to call backs? She was willing to give up her fall soccer season, even for a part in the chorus, and you had no room for a girl with straight 100 grades in chorus and high scores in solo fest, because she "goofs around too much"? If that is your interpretation of her "joie de vivre", I feel sorry for you, and wish you more joy in your life. If my daughter truly has a behavior problem, and how would you know that, never having had her as a student, wouldn't it better to discuss that with her father and I instead of crushing her dreams like that with such a hurtful comment? We will BUY a front-row ticket for you when she gets a lead in the high school musical, thank you very much....

[achat]

Dear Friends,
I love you all, you are generous, kind and give me great companionship in good times and bad. Just stop asking about my son's future every 2 weeks. I have great confidence in him and his ability to make a good living. He is following a non-traditional path (non-traditional in your view), so stop asking me or making judgements about him. He always followed his own counsel and he will in the future as well, as I think he should.
I do wish all your children well too.
Thanks.