What irks you today?
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Alinouveau2 wrote: »My nice relaxing four-day weekend is being rudely interrupted by my father who, upon learning that I have Monday off, wants me to drive him to his accountant's to give them a cheque for his taxes. Not sure why he can't just MAIL a cheque like everyone else. Or why he can't take a driving service (they have a special one for mobility-impaired people) on another day when I'm at work.
Pay it online. Soooooooo much easier and faster and confirmation...er.
He's 83, he doesn't do online banking. I think this payment would have exceeded the allowable limit anyway.
Oooh ok. Now I'm confused if the money was for the govt or the accountants and, God, I need to maybe take a real day off.
So, yeah, he could have mailed the check!
It was the payment for his 2021 tax owing to Canada Revenue Agency, the accountant can forward it. Or you can mail it. Or you can either bring a cheque to the bank, or have the bank pay it directly out of your account, which I can do on his behalf since I'm joint on his accounts. None of which involve me driving him back and forth across town.
Itty-bitty first-world irk of the day: finding an MFP entry for pumpkin in grams rather than volume. I couldn't even create an entry from the actual product label because it's only in ml. Incidentally, I have the same irk with logging ice cream because the label only has a volume measurement.
I think it's the parents' perogative to try to make tax time difficult. My mom called saying I need to go to the accountant and sign her taxes and get them finalized. Well ya I have power of attorney but it's not for you to use when you just don't feel like doing something.
Luckily she pays through her CRA account so I don't have to deal with that but man tax season with older folks is always so difficult
Tax season with CLIENTS is difficult!
On the topic of making payments...I work for an accounting firm and sometimes my boss offers me up to help people make online payments. Of all ages.
Boss: If you need help, give glassyo a call.
Me: (once they're on the phone) Just give me your bank info. I can make it for you. (Like being held hostage on the phone with them won't be an extra 20 mins, if I'm lucky, I won't get back?)
Anyway, I made a payment for a client to be debited at the beginning of the month. Just under 2 weeks later, he realizes it was never debited. Ok, it's very possible I wrote a number down wrong so he sends me a pic of his checkbook.
I make the payment again.
It's not debited when it should have been.
Our last resort is to have it debited through our tax software when efiling the return. Which, honestly is what should have hsppened in the first place but the client wanted it before he was ready to efile.
THAT worked but then they end up with a bad check type penalty fee from their bank for the first go round.
I called our state tax board to clear things up and cancel the 2nd online payment and find out there are 2 more scheduled to go through and it's too late to cancel. No one realized it takes like a week or two for the postings to show up.
The client is PISSED. Called us sloppy and, according to his more level headed wife, is threatening legal action. I'm like "for what? HIS lack of patience?"
Anyway, they can't be refunded until the money's debited first so that'll be another phone call I was nice enough to offer to make.
@ReenieHJ And now I'm irked at your mother's accountants. Why is all this not being done online?
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Already pulling them off. 🙄
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Right? Is it better to have loved the sun and lost than to never have loved at all? I try to be happy for the nice weekend but it’s making the cold even worse. When I move somewhere warm what ever will I complain about??
It's too 🥵.. like I do.🤣
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honey_honey_12 wrote: »Already pulling them off. 🙄
Are they grass ticks ? We mostly get brown dog, cattle and paralysis ticks.1 -
slimgirljo15 wrote: »honey_honey_12 wrote: »Already pulling them off. 🙄
Are they grass ticks ? We mostly get brown dog, cattle and paralysis ticks.
Brown ticks and deer ticks.
The worst are the teeny tiny ones when they get all over you, omg!!1 -
honey_honey_12 wrote: »slimgirljo15 wrote: »honey_honey_12 wrote: »Already pulling them off. 🙄
Are they grass ticks ? We mostly get brown dog, cattle and paralysis ticks.
Brown ticks and deer ticks.
The worst are the teeny tiny ones when they get all over you, omg!!
UGH I know they're out here, but so far I haven't encountered any. Next week my sis and I will be doing green-up and last year, we'd come home covered in them. Gee, can't wait. They're so disgusting when they embed themselves on you.
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honey_honey_12 wrote: »slimgirljo15 wrote: »honey_honey_12 wrote: »Already pulling them off. 🙄
Are they grass ticks ? We mostly get brown dog, cattle and paralysis ticks.
Brown ticks and deer ticks.
The worst are the teeny tiny ones when they get all over you, omg!!
UGH I know they're out here, but so far I haven't encountered any. Next week my sis and I will be doing green-up and last year, we'd come home covered in them. Gee, can't wait. They're so disgusting when they embed themselves on you.
As much as I hate spraying DEET on myself...if I'm doing heavy yard work or deep-woods hiking, I'll spray liberally to prevent ticks. It's a super-nasty chemical, but the "natural" bug repellants just don't work IME. I figure once or twice a year is probably not going to kill me.
But, I know people who have experienced Lyme disease, and it's horrible, so I spray-up.1 -
I stopped and bought a Bacon Cheeseburger on my way home from a day of errands.
Driving around in my community is like slow torture.
After unloading the car and finally sitting down to eat, I discovered that they had given me a Bacon Cheeseburger WITH NO BURGER!
Bun, mayo, lettuce, onions, pickles, bacon but NO Cheeseburger patty!
I was going to drive back over there but I don’t have the mental energy to deal with it.
How do you wrap up a burger without putting the burger on the bun?
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I've just realised that my regular box of 10 porridge sachets has gone up in price but its now only an 8 sachet box 😐 wth2
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Gaining and losing the same 5 lbs...2
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today I learned that my car will cost nearly 2,000 to repair so that is my irk of the day3
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@___Soundwave___ wrote: »Gaining and losing the same 5 lbs...
This 👆 and it’s snowing again!😂 I’m going to start losing it… some more!🤪🤯
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Mourning Doves. They wake me up every single morning and they won't shut up.0
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FedEx..😖1
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FedEx and UPS merged.
It's now called Fed Up.
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Everyone has smart phones nowadays.. why don't you use it to find the place you going to.. 😖
(Nth time had asked for direction while I walk around the building)1 -
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Coupongrl79 wrote: »
Doubt an orkin guy would stop me from my walk just to "talk ".. 😂2 -
eatpolerepeat wrote: »Certain married guys on here 🙄
There’s single men here? 😏0 -
eatpolerepeat wrote: »honey_honey_12 wrote: »eatpolerepeat wrote: »Certain married guys on here 🙄
There’s single men here? 😏
Absolutely, didn't you know 😂
I only knew about the under 40s.
Don’t think there’s very many over 40.
I’m old, better say over 50, lol.0 -
A couple things but I best not say. 🤐2
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I feel quite un-irked today.
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How is it possible that my soon to be 95yr old mother can piss me off,
61yrs old but it makes me feel about 13.
I know, she’s old and I should make concessions (and I do) but she’s a mean old woman, lol. 😂6 -
honey_honey_12 wrote: »How is it possible that my soon to be 95yr old mother can piss me off,
61yrs old but it makes me feel about 13.
I know, she’s old and I should make concessions (and I do) but she’s a mean old woman, lol. 😂
Because we never grow up. My 83 year old father is the same. I take him grocery shopping and I'm bored af standing around while he reads the nutrition labels on every package of sausages, so I'm idly scraping a bit of dead skin off my finger. "DON'T PICK YOUR FINGERS!" he squawks at me like I'm 7. I'm 58 and I'll pick my damn nose if I want.
Grit your teeth, smile, and be grateful for the awesome genes you got from her.3 -
A lot today. Two work. One not so work
1. My boss went out of town which gives me some time to clean up my not very organized area. You'd think! Too many crisis' I have to deal with.
2. Bought the firm (well, the boss bought the firm) a network copier/printer that gets overused as a printer when there's also a perfectly good network printer that doesn't get used now. The toner is wayyyyyyy more expensive for the copier than the printer.
3. Oh god. THREE!
I am 13 years old. (NOT LITERALLY MODS!!!!!!!) I like One Direction and most of the solo stuff the boys have put out. Mostly Harry Styles. Anyway, I check out his tumblr page which is full of teen and very young adult girls of all sexualities. There's a subset of fans who believe Harry and his ex bandmate, Louis, are romantic soulmates and find it easy to make EVERYTHING about them.
There's this song called Perfect that both wrote on (along with 5 other writers) that was said to be about Taylor Swift (she and Harry "dated" for a few months). Anyway, this subset of fans think it's really about Louis.
I keep fighting these people because, if you pay attention to the lyrics, it's CLEARLY about how the guy is not good boyfriend material. I mean, seriously, from the first verse(!!!!!!)
I might never be your knight in shinin' armor
I might never be the one you take home to mother
And I might never be the one who brings you flowers
But I can be the one, be the one tonight
And someone actually pointed out the "but I can be the one" part but neglected to keep reading...or listening.
So, yeah, my reaction to all this stupidly is irking me.
Whew! Whatever happened to that irrational anger thread? 1 -
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