Wanna know? Shred your tax rebate check. Yep, in the hustle and bustle of the move our tax rebate check was put into the shredder. In case you were wondering, the government WILL issue you a new check but it takes 4-6 weeks.
Here’s how it all went down. As you all know, we sold out house. While getting the house ready to go onto the market, we were doing frantic cleaning. We had just gotten our check and it was on top of the coffee maker. Yes, because that IS the safest place in the home for a $1200 check. The next day after the house was put on the market we were discussing finances right after the Realtor left. Randy mentioned the tax rebate and I told him to give it to me to sign and he could deposit it. Then he said he didn’t have it. And I said that he did. And he said he didn’t. See how this was progressing?
Anyway, he had to go back to work and I being the worry-wart I am had to find this check. HAD TO FIND IT. Remember, we are MOVING so the garage had 8 giant bags of garbage; one of which had fish sauce in it had a leaky lid because I didn’t want it getting all over during the move. For those of you not familiar, fish sauce is a thin liquid made from water, salt and anchovies primarily used SPARINGLY in Asian food. It’s stinky but taste in the right stuff. Oh how I dreaded having to go through that bag.
So there I sat for the next 3 hours. 90 degree garage ripping open garbage bag after garbage bag. Twice. And the fish sauce bag? It also had a bottle of gin I had accidently tossed. I smelled worse than drunk fish monger in Texas in August. No check.
By this point Randy home and decided to check the shredder. I had briefly looked, but not too hard. He dug around and what did I see…LADY LIBERTY’S HEAD!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! I shrieked - “Oh my God, that’s the Statue of Liberty, Noooooooooooooooooo.” I prompting got on the phone and waited for 32 minutes for a man name David who sounded more like a Donna to give me the good news that we could get another check. FYI - call the IRS but don’t try to go to the Economic Stimulus line. That’s the line for people who already bought a Blue Ray player and were counting on $1200 bucks as a single tax payer and are all pissy because they only got $600.
Meanwhile, my engineer husband was trying to piece together the check. He did a damn fine job too. I’d say he got about 40% of it put together and placed it in a envelope labeled “Rebate Bits”, just in case the government needed proof.
Sigh…here’s the thing about marriage. We know who shredded it. The innocent party has bragging rights for now, but I’ll keep it a secret. Oh who am I kidding - for once it wasn’t me that lost something. He did it. 
Everything is fixable and there’s no crying over shredded rebate checks.
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