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This is a shout out to all people from Minnesota who travel to Wisconsin via Highway 63 heading to Spooner, Hayward or Cable. I travel this road almost every weekend going to Cable.

You people drive as if there is no speed limit in Wisconsin.

You pass on yellow, and double-yellow, lines.

You are very dangerous drivers.

Please stay in your own state if you can’t obey our traffic laws. I would much rather you kill people in your own state than in mine.

Many complaints about the careless driving have been reported to St. Croix, Polk, Sawyer and Bayfield county sheriffs’ offices, as well as the Wisconsin State Patrol.

The next time I go by a vehicle that has been pulled over from Minnesota I hope it is you.

Stay home or drive sensibly.

A big Tainted to Delta Airlines for changing our seats on our last two flights — without warning or notice to us.

My husband and I bought our seats four months in advance for seating closer to the front of the plane and to sit together. Our seats together in Row 22 were taken from us to accommodate ‘family seating’ — sounds good, but then why not give them the seats together in row 36 that we were moved to instead?

I think the switch was done just prior to boarding as our itinerary looked unchanged the day before we were to fly.

The gate agent told us the computer makes the changes and they can’t do anything about it.

Next step was the on-line complaint that can take 30 days to resolve.

We were given 2,500 miles as compensation — but why would we want miles to fly again on the airline that treated us this way?

Family seating programs are just starting, and it is a shame that Delta has not found a better way to manage it.  And all airlines either are now or soon will be doing the same thing.

I want to Saint the elderly gentleman who paid for my groceries at Cub in West St. Paul on Feb. 17.

After four attempts to pay for my groceries the card was denied. The cashier asked if she should void the purchase. I asked if she could hold them and I would go home for a different card.

Just then a  gentlemen stepped forward and said he would pay for them. I said “No thank you.” He insisted and said he wanted to do a kind thing that day.

He would not give me his name or number so I could repay him. I told him thank you and I would pay it forward.

It’s so nice to have total strangers be so kind.

Mary Newton, West St. Paul

To the kind, patient woman who was behind me at the self checkout line at the IGH Target on Saturday, March 4, at about 2 p.m.

I was holding up the line because my Target RedCard was not working, and I had no other way to pay. You stepped in front and paid for it yourself.

Thank you so much for your kindness.

A huge tainted to the City of Saint Paul for targeting vehicles parked for a funeral at Saint Matthew’s church on Tuesday, March 14.

People were paying respects to a deceased friend, relative, uncle, husband. It was 1 o’clock in the afternoon and there was no plowing going on anywhere by the area. Everyone was gone by 2 o’clock. But, like vultures swooping in on road kill the parking enforcers were there to inflict more sadness on people who already are grieving. Nice to know that there is no compassion shown by the city if there is a chance to “make more money” from grieving citizens.

Rick OKeefe, Inver Grove Heights

Thank you, Pioneer Press, for the wonderful front-page article about “Promposal.” With so much sad news on TV and in our papers, the article made me feel very happy. Also, you included such a nice picture of the couple and the hockey sticks. I have already made a copy of the article and I am mailing it to my 15-year-old granddaughter.

The St. Paul Pioneer Press for printing the obituary on February 24 exactly the way the dearly departed would have wanted it printed even though it contained the “GD”.  A thousand and one apologies to any and everyone who found this obituary offensive.

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