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Old 11-20-2009, 09:12 PM   #1
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Man what a miserable 7 days this has been. Not one to usually complain, because I truly believe I am a fortunate man, but I am just beat down to the point of throwing my hands in the air and saying I concede, you win. It started last Friday when the transmission lines blew out in the truck while we were out of town ($600 and 3 hours later we were back on our way). The switch went out in the radial arm saw, Sunday the router took a crap (Bushings should fix it).This whole week we are short handed at work so the boss has been hammering me with work, and the topper was Sunday night I spent the night paying all the bills online (We both get paid every other week and last week was pay day) just to wake up Monday and find out I only had $.01 "Available" in my account. A quick stop by the bank reveled the IRS had levied our personal checking account. Without going into all the gruesome details, a few years back I made a few bad tax decisions and owed them a few thousand dollars. Fast forward to now and we were paying them $325 every 2 weeks. At that rate it would be paid off by the first of the year. Well turns out the blood sucking SOB’s wanted it faster. Fortunately, I was able to head off most of the damage and spent most of the week making calls and working it all out. In the end, they will be off my back, the bills all get paid and it’s finally Friday, I’m drained emotionally.

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Old 11-20-2009, 09:15 PM   #2
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Hope next week is better for you Chas.
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Old 11-20-2009, 09:17 PM   #3
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Keep the faith, Bro.
Lady Fortuna will turn her wheel in due time....
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Old 11-20-2009, 09:18 PM   #4
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Ooooooooof that does suck. So does the IRS.

Hopefully that was as bad as it's gonna be for a looooooooooooooooong time.
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Old 11-20-2009, 09:18 PM   #5
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Wow, what a week Chas......have a smoke and thank gawd it's over!
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Old 11-20-2009, 09:22 PM   #6
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Relax this weekend with a few beers and cigars
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Old 11-20-2009, 10:04 PM   #7
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I will be praying for you and the wife, my friend. This too will pass.
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Old 11-20-2009, 10:12 PM   #8
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Keep the faith, Bro.
Lady Fortuna will turn her wheel in due time....
That's what keeps me going every day.

I truly am fortunate. We have 5 healthy children who all have grown up into fine young adults, a loving wife who stands shoulder to shoulder with me no matter what and we always find a way to get what we need, and even some things we just want. The thing that stands out the most about the week is after repeatedly talking to so many people I cant even begin to explain the frustration I felt trying to get a "person" at the IRS to treat me like a human being. Honestly I never disputed I owed the money, I filed the returns, and made payment arrangements. I followed their procedures for determining the "Maximum" amount they would take and budgeted our finances to accommodate the payments. I guess I could see if I was some millionaire hiding millions off shore, but the total amount owed was less than 3K.

I told the last lady, now I know how Al Capone felt, she hung up on me

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Old 11-20-2009, 10:20 PM   #9
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Chuck, at least you had the cojones to stick it out! Hang in there brother! Remember what Freidrich Neitzche said: "That which does not kill us only makes us stronger" Although I usually don't have much regard for Neitzche, this is just about the only one of his quotes I do agree with.
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Old 11-20-2009, 10:23 PM   #10
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good luck Chas, we all seem to have our up and down times in life. Things will turn around for you soon.
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Old 11-20-2009, 10:53 PM   #11
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. . . the frustration I felt trying to get a "person" at the IRS to treat me like a human being. . . .

I know exactly how you feel. And I believe that what they did to you is an SOP of the IRS. It happened to me back in 1985. Long story short is that I paid my taxes (owed money) they sent me a larger refund saying I made a mistake - a year later said oops - we made a mistake and want our money back, with interest. Took three years to get it resolved on what happened. I set up payments - got the notice of acceptance AND payment book - the following week they took the money from my checking and savings account AND froze all my accounts until the money was actually transferred.

When I finally got through to a person - he told me point blank - "so what - we are not giving the money back cause you owe it anyway".

So yep - it sucks when they do that and it just pisses me off every time I hear of someone else they do this crap to.

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Old 11-20-2009, 11:18 PM   #12
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Sorry, to hear about all this!

You and your family will be in my thoughts! Good Karma being sent your way!

I'm glad you aren't letting the bastages get to you!

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Old 11-20-2009, 11:19 PM   #13
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Hang in there Chuck. A prayer is being sent for you and your family.
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Old 11-21-2009, 01:03 AM   #14
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Glad it is all behind you now, Chuck...better times ahead, my friend.
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Damn Chuck. That sounds like a horrible and frustrating week. Here's hoping that next week is exactly the opposite, my friend.
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Old 11-21-2009, 10:24 PM   #16
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Sending some good Karma your way brother!
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You sound like you're having a streak like my 2009. It gets better.

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Here's to a better next week Chas!!
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Old 11-22-2009, 12:09 AM   #19
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Well I figured tonight would be the "topper", our daughter asked us over to her place to have a "pre Thanksgiving" feast for just the parents (us and her boyfriends).

We figured this was the we are getting married, or your going to be a grandparents meal.
Turns out they just wanted to cook us a nice meal and do something nice for the parents .

Had a great time, great food and smoked a nice cigar on the way home.

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Old 11-22-2009, 12:10 AM   #20
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Well I figured tonight would be the "topper", our daughter asked us over to her place to have a "pre Thanksgiving" feast for just the parents (us and her boyfriends).

We figured this was the we are getting married, or your going to be a grandparents meal.
Turns out they just wanted to cook us a nice meal and do something nice for the parents .

Had a great time, great food and smoked a nice cigar on the way home.

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Congrats on not having either conversation Chas.
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