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		<title>Dear Motorcyclists: You Look Stupid When You Don&#8217;t Wear A Helmet</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2015 18:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anonymous WIRL]]></dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wirlproject.com/?p=5568</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Dear Motorcycle Drivers, This is the time of year that you start getting your prized bikes out from the garage and clean them up for a great season of adventure. It is also the time that many people start preaching about safety and being aware of you and your bikes on the road. We hear things like, Watch for motorcycles in the blind spot of your rearview mirror! or, When pulling out at a stop sign&#8230; look twice!! I have to agree that the advice we get is fine and expected. We should be careful and mindful of motorcyclists on the road, I am all for being cautious and keeping everyone safe. But here&#8217;s where I get a bit perturbed with all of this. Here&#8217;s a few questions for you: How about you do your part to keep safe and not weave in and around traffic so that we don&#8217;t unexpectedly hit you, because in normal circumstances, a vehicle wouldn&#8217;t be able to do what you just did? Why do you feel the need for speed when you&#8217;re on one of the most dangerous motor vehicles allowed on the road? And, here&#8217;s a good one, how about you put a freaking helmet on your head to save your life, just incase there is an accident?! Did you ever think of that?! &#160; I know somehow you&#8217;ve managed to get a few legislators in your pocket to pass laws that do not REQUIRE you to wear a helmet (in some states), but &#8230;really, if you&#8217;re not doing your part to be extra cautious and if you&#8217;re not using common sense to protect yourself, why the hell should everyone else have to go out of their way to make sure YOU are safe? Seriously! You actually look stupid when you&#8217;re flying down the road with your gross gorgeous locks flowing in the wind. Newsflash! When you fall off that thing, for whatever reason, you are probably going to smash your head on the ground and it&#8217;s going to be a massive tragedy to you, your family, and friends. I know this because I&#8217;ve been through it &#8211; someone I know and love fell off of their motorcycle and was killed because of a head injury 100% due to the fact that they were NOT wearing a helmet! Don&#8217;t force me to have to go to your bedside at the hospital, or worse, your funeral. I&#8217;m angry and annoyed that I am sad and crying because I can&#8217;t see or talk to you ever again because you made the stupid decision to get on that motorcycle without a helmet. My sadness and your death could have been prevented with one little choice. If you were to ride a go-cart, a bicycle, or even go down hill skiing, you&#8217;re expected, or at least suggested, to have a helmet on. But, somehow you get behind a 100 HP engine and leave it up to fate! WHAT? That&#8217;s STUPID! Believe me, you&#8217;re not THAT cool. And believe me, you REALLY won&#8217;t be very cool when you&#8217;re dead or braindead from not protecting yourself. You have the choice, use your brain (or lack thereof) to make a wise decision and put a helmet on! You can wear all your gear, get your tattoos, buff and shine the chrome on your bike, even buy a flashing headlight that helps cares to see you more easily&#8230;do whatever you like! But please, buy a helmet and wear it! I&#8217;ve already seen and heard of too many fatalities this year, and it&#8217;s only April. To your credit, in some cases a helmet might not save your life, but I think it&#8217;s common sense to have one on. Every time I drive my car I don&#8217;t have an option to wear my seatbelt, I HAVE to do it. Do I look &#8220;cool&#8221; doing it? Not really. But, it shows that I know and understand the law and, more importantly, the consequences of what would happen if I chose not to buckle my seatbelt. I think the least you can do, for safety sake, is to put your helmet on! All of you diehard freedom riders may disagree with me, but I&#8217;m sick and tired of seeing one after another of your brothers or sisters (who was not wearing a helmet) not surviving these accidents and it being blamed on everything BUT not wearing a helmet! So, how about I&#8217;ll buckle-up and you&#8217;ll helmet-up and we&#8217;ll look out for each other and stop this ridiculous nonsense. If I need to do my part to keep you safe by being extra cautious in my car, then you need to drive that thing like a responsible, somewhat intelligent human being and be extra cautious as well. Here&#8217;s my last big of advice: Wear a helmet, follow the rules, listen to my advice, and no one gets hurt. Bottom line: If you chose to not wear a helmet, you are choosing to look like an idiot. Sincerely, A Very Annoyed Angry Frustrated Patient Driver &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Dear US Airways</title>
		<link>http://www.wirlproject.com/dear-us-airways/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2015 09:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anonymous WIRL]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Dear US Airways, Your customer service stinks, bad. You definitely need to work on your automated man who answers the phone when you call your 1-800 number because he stinks too. I called to book my flight using a reward travel certificate (that you can only use by booking over the phone &#8211; which is ridiculous) and was asked to &#8220;call back&#8221; at least 20 times, due to bad weather. Seriously? It&#8217;s March, the weather isn&#8217;t THAT bad. You seriously can&#8217;t answer the phone because you&#8217;re swamped re-booking flights due to bad weather for three straight weeks? I called around the clock and it was the same story every SINGLE time. Honestly, I called at least 50+ times trying to book this trip and waited for 2+ hours on hold several times. I wasted at least a full 24 hours of my life sitting on the phone waiting for you to answer the call that is &#8220;very important to you&#8221;. I even called the special number on the back of my preferred US Airways MasterCard, finally got someone to answer the phone, and they told me they&#8217;d give me an &#8220;insider&#8221; number to use to call and get a human being. I was satisfied with this, until I found this exact number is listed on the website &#8211; it&#8217;s the number you call to book a reservation by phone! Thanks for the &#8220;insider tip&#8221;&#8230;what a joke! Anyway, I finally get through to someone at your company and they tell me I can&#8217;t use the reward certificate for this trip, due to &#8220;blackout dates&#8221;. Are you KIDDING me? I explain that I&#8217;ve waited (literally) three weeks to book this flight and now you&#8217;re telling me I can&#8217;t? So, they asked me to call back another time, with different dates, to book my trip. At the end of the day, after about 4 weeks of this mess, I ended up successfully booking a flight, but I have to say it was the most ridiculous, stressful way to have to do it. So, my advice to you, US Airways, would be: Stop telling me my call is important to you; it&#8217;s not. Seriously, get a new recording for us to listen to while you have us on hold for 2+ hours Get RID of blackout dates &#8211; it&#8217;s a scam Answer the phone Prepare for bad weather in the winter, duh! &#160; That&#8217;s all. &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>I Just Keep Telling Myself It&#8217;s Only Hair&#8230; But&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2015 02:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Aunt Deb]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sooooo, I tried to make an appointment with my stylist to have my hair shaped and high/low lighted the other day, only to find out she&#8217;s left the salon. I was set up with another stylist for Friday. I went in early to explain all of the issues that I have with my hair to her.. the semi-bald spots where I finally have regrowth and I am growing my hair out; that I do not want the highlights too light ~ I prefer that it look natural and I like a full head of highlights; the fact that I&#8217;m allergic to many products &#38; break out in hives so she/I&#8217;m limited in product choices; that my hair is very fine, thin and has multiple cowlicks plus it will not hold a curl without strong hair spray; that I am not handy with styling tools at all and only use hot rollers; etc. The stylist said she understood and remarked that I had very few grey hairs and agreed that high/low lights would be the correct choice and went off to read the notes that should have been on my account.. of course there were none. She was very thorough with choosing the low light color so I assumed we were on the same page. I could not have been more wrong. She stopped foiling my hair at mid head.. I asked why she had stopped to which she replied &#8220;Oh, you wanted a full head?&#8221;, grabbed more foils and continued to wrap my entire head. That should have been my first clue. I must say, that she is very personable, funny and chatty. I really haven&#8217;t met anyone since we moved here over a year ago, so it was nice to have a conversation with someone besides my husband, my doctors and our veterinarian and I ignored the red flag. After several minutes she checked one of my foils and said it would just be another minute before I was done. And then she was paged.. And it all went south from here. She took the call, it was obvious that it was personal and should not be being held where others could over hear. It also went on for a well over 10 minutes, during this time everyone in the salon learned far more about her personal life than we needed to know and my hair was over processing! I asked the stylist in the station next to mine if she would check my hair.. it was beyond done. She approached my stylist and told her she needed to get off the phone and my hair was needing to be rinsed out. My stylist continued her phone conversation for another few minutes before returning to address my hair. She attempted to explain her personal call to me and since I didn&#8217;t want to embarrass her I said that I really hadn&#8217;t heard anything and we proceeded to the shampoo bowl. She continued to talk about her money/credit/car issues and I tried to change the subject as we walked back to her station. I grabbed my iPhone and showed her some photos of myself to make sure she knew that was the look I was going for. What I wanted and what I got are worlds apart!! There are no mirrors in the shampoo room so you can imagine my surprise when I sat down in her chair to see the highlights are actually bleached out completely stripes! She asked if she was cutting/styling my hair.. hello.. I have a 3 hour appointment booked.. that alone should have answered her question before it was asked. I can&#8217;t tell you how many times my hair was caught in her round brush &#38; yanked as she blew it dry and continued to perseverate over her phone call. Then she asked how much she should TRIM off. To which I answered, you&#8217;re supposed to be cutting and styling my hair.. that I am going out on Saturday with a couple I have never met and want to look good. Never once did I ask for a layered straight hair style.. but the next thing I know she has cut layers into my extremely fine, thin hair!! She never even touched my bangs.. they&#8217;re still hanging in my eyes.. and the root line is still extremely visible from my last trip to the salon. She asked if I wanted to rebook and I said I would get back to her. All the while I&#8217;m thinking that I need to get out of there, go home and fix my hair. To make matters worse, she presents me with a bill that is $60 more than I paid my old stylist for a good haircut &#38; color!! I barely made it home before my hubby.. so I started dinner instead of going up to try to fix the mess on my head. The only thing hubby said was &#8220;You&#8217;re hair sure is straight, I thought you were getting your hair done today?&#8221;  That spoke volumes. This morning  tried to style my hair so it looks half way decent.. to no avail. She cut a freaking shag into my hair!!!  I am beyond upset, I don&#8217;t want to go out tonight, and I am furious that I actually paid to have my hair ruined. After several attempts to style this mess I called the salon. I explained that while I don&#8217;t want to cause trouble for her, my hair looks horrible and I am beside myself. I should not have to &#8220;pay, both literally and figuratively, for her being upset over a personal call that should never have interrupted my appointment. The salon manager has scheduled me in for a color correction and new hair cut next week. They&#8217;re more than likely going to have to cut my hair considerably shorter in order to get rid of the flip and heaven only knows what they can do to fix the color. It has taken me 2 years to get my hair to shoulder length and she ruined it in one afternoon.  I know it&#8217;s only hair.. and it will grow back but&#8230;. &#160; &#160;]]></description>
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