Letters to the Editor
kansasgirl
Published Letters: 118 Editor's Choice: 15
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Pills + booze in women
[Read the article: My business trip ended with me in four-point restraints!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I agree with everyone who says that anyone should know not to mix anti-anxiety drugs with booze. The LW says she's used this cocktail before....however, another thing the LW needs to realize is that alcohol impacts women differently depending on where they are in their menstrual cycle, and impacts everyone differently depending on how much they've eaten. So some days this combo may work just fine, but other times it could be really bad (as she found out).
Also to the folks who say they would've heard about this on the news....I have a friend who works as an FBI agent in a large metro area. He occasionally has to work airport duty and he hates it. He says that because any ruckus on a plane is a federal offense, the FBI has to be involved, and that they deal with many people daily who have done something to disrupt a flight. Apparently many of these are folks trying to join the mile-high club, but there's a good chunk of out of control drunks too. I think it's more frequent than most of us realize.
And to the LW - I used to have a big fear of flying. I got over it with therapy for my underlying panic disorder plus eventually a good antidepressant (not specifically for the flying, but has helped me with it nonetheless) and by flying more often, which has got me used to the experience.
Oddly 9/11 left me less fearful of flying. As you probably know, fear of flying (or other phobias) are primarily about control. I always say, nothing drives home the point that you really don't have any control over your life like watching a terrorist attack. I haven't had a panic attack sisnce.
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What's with all the fuss over Jewfro?
[Read the article: Confessions of a salvia eater]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I've heard the term many times, mostly used by those with Jewfros, and never considered it offensive.
Urban dictionary has 17 entries for it.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=jewfro&defid=1110577
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scarlet fever
[Read the article: Sick in the head]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Many years ago, when my brother was just 4 or 5 years old, my mom became convinced he had scarlet fever after reading the symptoms in a medical book. She took him to our pediatrician, who was an old country doctor. He listened patiently as she described his symptoms and her fears. Then he offered his take.
"The first thing you do," he told her, "is you throw that damn book away."
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no sense of humor is right
[Read the article: How gay it would be]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I thought the article was hilarious....but I knew there would be a lot of humorless types complaining in the letters. The one that made me laugh out loud, though, was from PaulBC, who is worried about Auntie Mame's chinchilla coat.
"Do you know how many chinchillas it takes to make a coat? I may be overanalyzing, but I am trying to figure out if the author's reference to "a showstopping diva in chinchilla fitting a Benson Hedges into a 2-foot cigarette holder" is a sort of preemptive strike against PC critiques of the article or just a sign of the author's cluelessness."
Yes. You are over-analyzing.
Seriously, people, Sarah's son is right. She did write the article for Stupid People With No Sense of Humor Weekly.
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Wow
[Read the article: I'm sleeping with my best friend's fiancé ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]LW, you say you know this is wrong but you can't stop. But you know how you stop? You stop! How hard is it? You don't sleep with him. You don't text him, you don't talk to him, you don't have any contact with him.
Cary's right, feelings can't hurt you. Just stop already. And then get some therapy and figure out (a) why you're treating your best friend so poorly and (b) why you're treating yourself so poorly.
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Cary's right - send the letter!
[Read the article: 15 years ago I said something offensive and now I want to apologize ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I read this letter and immediately thought of 3 different incidents in my lifetime where people said insensitive and/or hurtful things, and that I would LOVE to get an apology form an of these people.
The first: 8th grade. I was one of 6 girls auditioning for 4 slots for 9th grade cheerleader. I wanted to be cheerleader more than anything in the world. The head cheerleader –Tana (yes, her real name…I’m tempted to use her last name too) - a shoe-in to win again – ran into the locker room after the votes were tallied and announced to 3 other girls that they were the new cheerleaders. She went on and on about how happy she was they were the chosen ones, and how much better they were than the other who auditioned, and as she stood just a few feet away from me, she said “I’m so happy those other girls didn’t get it.”
I went home and cried for hours. I cried myself to sleep. I cried the next day. My parents still say they’ve never seen anyone cry as much as I did that day. It sounds ridiculous now but it was SO important to 8th grade me. And it’d be a great gift to receive an apology from Tana today.
The other apologies I’d love to get are from the co-worker who insisted that although I was devastated by my 18-year-old cousin’s suicide, at least I’d benefited by losing so much weight (because I was too grief-stricken to eat); and the friend who insisted that although I’d cancelled my wedding engagement, I should be grateful that I wasn’t getting married because she was and the wedding planning was such a pain I was lucky to be spared the ordeal.
And on the flip side, I LOVE the people who say the kind words at the best times…like my guy friend who told me, after the cheerleading auditions, that I was by far the best one and that he voted for me. Seriously, I know the cheerleading audition sounds so lame, but as an 8th grade girl who’s cheerleading dreams had just been crushed, his kindness meant the world to me.