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[viedma]

One by request for Miss Vali...



Isn't Ten DREEEEAMY? The way he's cheerful one second and destroying your universe in the next? *sigh*


And the next one, for me this time...


Ahh, tax season at the library, oh my it's a joyful place. I would like to take this moment to tell all the people who won't be reading this that I am not a tax professional, I never will be a tax professional. I just hand out the forms. Trust me when I tell you I have no super-secret knowledge I am keeping from you just to make your life hard. If I knew how to answer the question, believe me when I tell you that I would've answered it half an hour ago and saved myself a lot of aggravation.

Someday I'm going to say why not when someone pushes me like this and just give out random bits of half-cocked advice just to see what'll happen. Or maybe not.

Comments

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

Oh, God, I remember tax season. "I can tell you how to photocopy this. After that, it's between you and your God."

[viedma.livejournal.com]

"Uh-huh, uh-huh...so, can my husband and I both claim our kids on the 1040 Schedule A if we're married filing jointly?"

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

Not that it helps (of course not) but we used to have signs up in the Government Docs section, on the table with the forms, and on the photocopier saying that all we could do was provide forms, we could NOT provide tax advice.

You should have HR Block leave leaflets for a slight fee and thus boost the budget. :-)

[averysmallthing.livejournal.com]

I worked in a bookstore. Parents would call the night before a book report was due.

Them: "So, um, do you have Jane Eyre?"

Me: "Yeah."

Them: "Can you briefly summarize the significance of Jane's time with St. John and her decision to return to Mr. Rochester?"

Me: O_o "You got brass ones."

[elliptic-eye.livejournal.com]

Either brass ones or none at all. Why, my parents would have at least made me call myself.

[viedma.livejournal.com]

Yeah, what's up with parents doing all their kids' homework?

IN MY DAY if we didn't do our science project the way we were supposed to we plugged a digital watch into a potato and said, "Look, Ms. Webb, it's a potato clock!" and your Earth science teacher gave you an F because you were a n00b and that's the way it was and we LIKED IT!

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

When my daughter took high school chemistry, the teacher passed out a questionnaire at Parents Night. One of the questions was "What is the lowest grade you will accept for your child in this class?"

I'm still boggling and that was two years ago.

[viedma.livejournal.com]

So...if you said C minus, does that mean that it was okay if the teacher gave her that grade, or...?

Great, now I'm confused.

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

If I said C-, that meant that he wouldn't be getting angry 10PM calls saying "YOU HAVE RUINED MY KID'S LIFE YOU BASTARD!"

At least that's my guess: he was trying to identify the parents who would be pains in the asses highly involved in their children's performance.

I said B. She got an A, as usual.

yep, yep.

[viedma.livejournal.com]

I'd be shocked if that hadn't happened to me several times. Small side note: the Jane Eyre with the Dame Darcy illustrations is simply gorgeous. I'd been meaning to read it for ages and then I see this and it pushed me right over the edge. Great book, too.

Re: yep, yep.

[averysmallthing.livejournal.com]

I assumed it was a shared experience. :)

[theodicy.livejournal.com]

Oh, I can't believe you and Vali haven't written you entire dialogues for Tax Season. Becoming fuller and fuller of teh crazy at five-minute intervals.

BTW, will you poke the wyfe, please?

Hey, V, loved the "GWTW" parody.

That's all.

Tax Season! Wabbit Season!

[viedma.livejournal.com]

Consider the wyfe duly poked. (hey, that's dirty!)

Re: Tax Season! Wabbit Season!

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Ew. You guys are so sleeping on the couch next time.

No, the floor.

No, the shed.

Re: Tax Season! Wabbit Season!

[viedma.livejournal.com]

I thought we were going to give you money to go to the pictures or something. Hey, stop hitting me! I'm fragile!

(Am still waiting to hear from zee Director re approval of vacation time. Will probably get it, but can't say for sure just yet. I'm just now printing off vacation photos from September. o.O)

Re: Tax Season! Wabbit Season!

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

...printing?

Aw, dammit, I knew I forgot something.

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

That was you reading that? (I get hit stats but not where they came from.) W00t! Thanks.

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

The funny thing is, even working in a bookstore I get people asking for help with their taxes. I JUST SELL THE BOOKS, DUDE. I CAN RECOMMEND A GOOD ONE TO HELP YOU LEGALLY REDUCE YOUR TAX. THAT'S THE LIMIT OF MY TALENTS. *facepalm*

[viedma.livejournal.com]

Oh dear lord. I wonder if people from Home Depot get people who ask them how they should build the addition onto their house?

If they only knew what their broker did...

[bodhibird.livejournal.com]

When I worked for the Periodicals Department, "tax season" meant people calling us up to look up decades-old stocks in The Wall Street Journal that had changed names three or four times and try to find the closing price on a given date when their Uncle Maynard bought it for them, or whatever. I used to imagine people paying their brokers and tax repairers loads of money per hour, not knowing that the broker's underlings would just call the library and get the information for free!