Accounting, the IRS and New Year's Eve
Numbers scare me. Math scares me. The IRS scares me. April 15 scares me. You get the picture...the tax man cometh every year and every year I remember exactly why I did not pursue a career in accounting.
When our kids were babies, we'd tuck them into bed on New Year's Eve with the help of Reema, our then college-age friend/nanny/godmother. Not that we couldn't have put them to bed without her help, but the fact is, we -- Fred -- couldn't do the taxes without her.
Every New Year's Eve for about five years, the night went like this: Drink some wine, take a deep breath, pull out all the paperwork from the year to which we were about to bid adieu, drink some more wine, and plunge into the intricacies of Form C or whatever it was at the time. This was almost 30 years ago. Don't expect me to remember everything.
I should probably clarify this picture because if I don't, my husband and Reema will rat me out. My part in this was to refill glasses until about 11 p.m. when -- this is true -- I would nod off, lulled to sleep by Reema's voice as she read the numbers from our statements. At about 2 minutes before midnight, they'd wake me up to watch the ball drop and send me back to sleep
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