why I no longer do my own taxes
May. 2nd, 2011 06:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deird1Did you know that, if you don't cash a cheque for 15 months, it expires? True story!
I found this out, of course, by trying to cash one - from December 2009. The bank teller said sorry, but "...all you have to do is call up the company, and ask them to re-issue the cheque for you! Simple!"
All I have to do. ALL I HAVE TO DO. Those were her words.
*sighs*
I came very close to saying "Look, Lady, last year all I had to do was walk into a bank and hand you a cheque. Now I have to do something FIVE TIMES HARDER."
I have been carrying that blasted cheque around in my handbag for a year, and every time I see it, it serves as a wonderful reminder of my disorganisation and ability to fail at life. And now? Now I have to carry it around for another year, to remind me that I cannot even do simple things like getting money from my dividend people to my bank, and I still fail at life, and I really really suck. Every single time I look into my handbag.
I thought this through for a few minutes. And thought through how much grief that silly cheque had already caused me, and how much more it was going to. And then I walked over to a bin, RIPPED THE CHEQUE INTO PIECES, and threw it in.
I suddenly have a whole year of stress and failure that I won't have to go through. Personally, I think that's worth the whole $16.06.
I found this out, of course, by trying to cash one - from December 2009. The bank teller said sorry, but "...all you have to do is call up the company, and ask them to re-issue the cheque for you! Simple!"
All I have to do. ALL I HAVE TO DO. Those were her words.
*sighs*
I came very close to saying "Look, Lady, last year all I had to do was walk into a bank and hand you a cheque. Now I have to do something FIVE TIMES HARDER."
I have been carrying that blasted cheque around in my handbag for a year, and every time I see it, it serves as a wonderful reminder of my disorganisation and ability to fail at life. And now? Now I have to carry it around for another year, to remind me that I cannot even do simple things like getting money from my dividend people to my bank, and I still fail at life, and I really really suck. Every single time I look into my handbag.
I thought this through for a few minutes. And thought through how much grief that silly cheque had already caused me, and how much more it was going to. And then I walked over to a bin, RIPPED THE CHEQUE INTO PIECES, and threw it in.
I suddenly have a whole year of stress and failure that I won't have to go through. Personally, I think that's worth the whole $16.06.