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I can breath again.
11 years ago
I know, you always see "Help I need money."
And it's for anything from a new Wacom tablet to a set of car tires.
Last month was a little tense here.
I received a certified letter from the tax office.
"We are going to auction off both your house and your shop for back taxes."
Panic mode time.
Well, I manged to scrounge up the $4100 I needed to pay these people off with.
Nothing like wiping out an IRA and an insurance policy.
So yeah, I can breath again.
Bunners
And it's for anything from a new Wacom tablet to a set of car tires.
Last month was a little tense here.
I received a certified letter from the tax office.
"We are going to auction off both your house and your shop for back taxes."
Panic mode time.
Well, I manged to scrounge up the $4100 I needed to pay these people off with.
Nothing like wiping out an IRA and an insurance policy.
So yeah, I can breath again.
Bunners
V.
How could they open with that? Surely something like a due notice would be appropriate.
What, county property taxes? They tend to be more prone to stupid than most.
I discovered some years ago, after a lot of digging through records at the courthouse, that we were paying our taxes, and taxes for some people a mile down the road as well. And they were paying their own taxes too.
Seems sometime in the distant past the same person owned both pieces of property, and the courthouse conveniently neglected to separate the tax bill for the respective properties when they were sold to different people.
BITE. ME.
Oh, I've known about this for the past 6 months, I was just sweating when the other shoe would drop. It did.
Bunners
I had to change systems, Blue Cross no longer included the one I was at for some decades.
The new doctor wanted me on another drug. I told them it had been tried before, with less than great results.
They said it was New, More Wonderoso, would work fine this time.
Assuming the Dr actually knew their ass from a hole in the ground, I took the pills.
A week and a half later I ended up in E.R., my blood chemistry was garbage.
From the new drug.
The E.R. Dr said throw the new drug away and double up on my old meds for 3 days, and resume previous dosing.
Aaaaaand the billing started. Blue Cross found 144 reasons not to pay.
Fast forward a few months, they threatened to sue.
I told them to look up the records, see what actually happened and what caused it, that if I ever heard from them again I would go to one of those Lawyers that advertise on TV, and I sure as hell wouldn't be settling for the amount of their bill.