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I’m not saying tax is stupid (although it is!), I’m saying there is a tax for being stupid. Sometimes it’s in the form of money, sometimes it time wasted and sometimes it’s bruised self esteem. (It always involves bruised self esteem!)

The older I get, the better I am at making it happen. A regular whiz kid!

It requires a convergence of things that shouldn’t be together, for example, mocha lattes and will documents or car washes and automatic windshield wipers. Or it could involve not putting down a drop cloth for a teeny tiny paint repair.

No planning required. Actually planning can get in the way of it happening. It’s mostly caused by laziness like not changing shoes to do a very small project only to have them stained, paint splattered, dirtied or something. (Yes, that’s a true story!)

My latest experience is the will and mocha latte. They do not go together (although ants and anything mocha is magnetic). I had my spiffy new will and power of attorney on my desk waiting to be put in the proper place until my demise. Everything signed and in pretty folders. I had my full mocha latte in my hand and went to place it on the desk next to the documents. The lid popped off. The cup was more “squeezy” without a lid and the contents covered everything on my desk including the papers and my keyboard. (The cats were disappointed that it wasn’t tuna juice!) Everything was coffee stained. Everything! The tax was that I had to have everything reprinted and signed. Cost — several hours of my time. Fortunately the attorney did not charge me a stupid tax.

I posted about my experience in a car wash with the automatic windshield wipers trying to stop the rags that were slapping my car. The wiper motor had to be replace. Cost – more than a breadbox, somewhere between ouch and shazam!

Everyone has their stories about stupid tax. Feel free to share yours. Maybe I’ll feel less stupid.

49 thoughts on “Stupid tax!”

  4. If my husband and I had to pay a stupid tax we’d be in the poor house (do they still have those?!). I prefer NOT to think of my boo boos as “stupid” but more like “temporary insanity”. These days I think when we say we’re slowing down, that includes our thought process too!! LOL

    Hugs, Pam

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  6. Easy shredded our papers once… but to say dog ate my tax papers is like dog ate my homework… so we said la post lost the papers and paid the fee for being too late… something what would never happen today… I’m an ole bat now and nothing is too embarrassing for me ;O)

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  7. I have electric lawn equipment and I was always proud of myself that I had never run over the cord to the power mower … my father had done that many times. So I felt pretty smug about that. I was mowing the lawn once and it was stinkin’ hot and my neighbor Marge was going somewhere and stopped in front of the house and said “it’s too hot to mow – you’re red in the face” to which I said “I’ll be done soon and will go in.” She pulled away and two minutes later I ran over the cord and sliced it bigtime. I couldn’t finish the lawn, but I had to trim the Pyracantha bush near the kitchen window as it had reached to where my mom could see it from the kitchen. I should have learned my lesson, but no I did not. I got the shorter cord to get it done and sweat was in my eyes and I rammed the hedge trimmers into the chain-link fence. At least I didn’t damage THAT cord, but I had to get new hedge trimmers as I bent the blade beyond repair. I put everything in the house and went inside. Not a proud day for moi!

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  8. Oh boy. Should I ask the kitties if any choice words flew out of your mouth? They would’ve if it were me. I find that I’ve been super clumsy with hurting myself lately. Dropped a power supply box on my arthritic big toe. Knocked my elbow . . . twice . . . in the same spot. All this within 24 hours. More pain on top of chronic pain isn’t helpful.

    Sorry you had to re-do all that stuff. We just did our will, too. It’s out on a table. I better put it in a safe place.

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  10. I haven’t done anything really stupid lately, but had some close calls. I turned a coke over on my desk the other day. By some miracle, it fell the other way and not on my keyboard. I’m afraid the stupid tax collectors will catch up with me some day.

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  12. Oy, so sorry about the mocha and will. I’ve spent the last 6 days painting and managed to get just enough little tiny drops on a short and as I finished today, a well place dribble on my pants. 😬 I love the paint I’m using, the coverage is beautiful but dang it’s next to impossible to get out of clothing. And of course both items of clothing were ones I particularly liked (the pants especially had a nice batch of pockets, something you don’t often see in woman’s pants. {sniffle}

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  14. I have a pair of green rubber gardening shoes that have red tops. Seems that spray painting red and thinking you don’t have your feet in the way don’t always go together. Today, I was accompanying my husband to a doctor appointment about an hour away. We were going to be gone around four hours. I am reading a really good book and decided to change purses so I could haul the book. I got there and realized I had picked up the last book I finished and not the one I was reading. Four hours of staring ensued. 🤦‍♀️

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  15. “The Will and the Mocha Latte” – sounds like the title of a murder mystery. How dreadful to have ruined your documents yourself. At least none of the cats caused it. I have spilled my share of coffee! There should be a stupid tax in Washington these days! You have a kind lawyer.

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    • My attorney specialized in wills and estates so by nature, works with loads of older folks. When we go to her office we are the only customers that don’t need walkers! She is very kind and so was her staff.

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  16. Ohhhhh what horrible happenings!!! I’ll do my best to come up with one. It’s strange, but those seem harder to recall.(I think it’s probably that most of them are best forgotten)

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  17. I know I do stupid stuff all the time, but for the life of me I can’t think of one right now. Probably because I’m getting old and forgetting everything!!

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  18. I’m trying to think of my latest stupid tax and all I can think of is other people being stupid and the rest of us also having to pay the stupid tax, even though we did not do the exceptionally stupid thing. This is a post about elections.

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