I'll bring the bread, you'll bring the wine

[the_siobhan]

The yard sale is scheduled for tomorrow with a rain date of Sunday. I'll be honest, I'm kind of hoping it gets rained out tomorrow just so I don't have to get up early tomorrow and I can put off dealing with it for a day.

Work kicked my ass this week. There were deadlines stacked on deadlines on top of deadlines. And the scheduling software they have saddled us with sucks so badly that pulling any kind of data out of it is like trying to shave your legs with a cheese grater. But I got it done and it's hopefully at least close to correct.

My to-do list for this weekend:
1. Yard Sale is number one because it will clear a large swath through my living room.

2. Going through Darrell's paperwork has abruptly hit a higher priority because I just got a letter from his insurance company claiming they overpaid him by almost 10 grand. Ha ha, nice try. He showed me his bank account and there is no fucking way. I love (I do not love) the fucking letter they sent out. "So sorry for your loss, here's where to send a cheque." Fuck them.

3. I want to hang one(1) shelf upstairs. We were talking about the need to have a single space in the house that feels "finished" and the back room upstairs is closest to that goal so I want to do just one single thing that gets it a step towards the finish line. It's probably not the most productive use of my time, but it's a psychological bell-ringer as much as anything.

People at work ask each other what they're doing on weekends and I'm all like NOT STABBING. I think they think I'm joking.

Comments

[elusis]

F just got a bill from the IRS for his deceased "sister" (not actually a sister) Betsy because he filed her 2018 taxes. Supposedly she owes several thousand dollars... from 2012. We have no idea what to do about this. So I feel you.

[the_siobhan]

I don't know what the laws are for you, can they extract debts from relatives or executors?

Here nobody is liable for a debt they don't sign for, so they can claim what's left in his bank account - which is pretty much nothing - but that's all they can do.

[elusis]

Probably? The situation is weird because she was still legally married, but the guy returned to his country a long time ago, and she barely had anything in her bank account (and not nearly enough to go into probate over, so we just left it there), but F got the payout of a life insurance policy she had that she designated for him. Probably the IRS can talk to the state of Florida and try to get dibs on her bank account but we still need to spend time researching it just to make sure.

[nicklausse]

From what I understand, you do have to pay the final tax return out of the estate, but everyone else can basically fuck off unless the estate has money to pay them. Some of them can fuck off even if it does.

[sabotabby]

"So sorry for your loss, here's where to send a cheque."

I'm horrified but not surprised.

[kest]

good job not stabbing.

[mr_sharkey]

"Thank you for your concern - I wish you the best of luck in contacting the deceased at the soonest possible opportunity."

∴

[sushispook]

It really is times like this that you know you don't have latent mutant powers, because this would be when they would activate and someone in a call center would just explode in a cloud of surprised meat.

[ironed_orchid]

Fucking insurance.

Hope the yard sale goes (went?) well.

[notasupervillain]

How can insurance do that? Wtf?

[the_siobhan]

They would periodically decide to not pay him or cover his drugs as well.

First up against the wall after the revolution.

[nicklausse]

Yikes. This is why we've refused to leave the country within three years of a cancer diagnosis. Bc poof, there goes your short term disability. Fuckers. That's brutal.

[greylock]

For a second there I thought you were American.

Because that sounds American, and not Socialist Canadia.
I hope you sort it out and MegaFuckUCorp "pounds sand".

And you get your shelf done. The small milestones are the most important.

[sushispook]

[kindness and comfort]