MAY 27, 25.. TODAY’S RHETORICAL QUESTION.. TEXTING..
TODAY’S RHETORICAL QUESTION..
In a 12 month, 365 day year, almost all of us have certain activities that we (more or less) MUST perform.
Can you name the one, at the very top of your annual list of things you have to do, that you absolutely, totally dislike?
My answer will be found at the end of this Post.
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TEXTING.. Does misery actually love company?
In our May 7th Post..
I wrote the following:
I sit here wondering IF I should call these.. Taa Daa.. Cap’s Senior Moments. YOU may never do these things.
The below happens maybe only one time a week. It does not happen with every text message that I write.
Cap’s Senior Moment: I forget To Press Send!
Then the next day, as I am “looking for a response”, to my Text Message, I may, and I may not, notice that I Did Not Send The Text Message.
Just the other day a friend down in Arizona texted Patti and me the following:
“Darn it Cap! The day before yesterday I texted you and Patti! When you hadn’t replied in several days, I went back to my text to be sure of the date! Guess What? I did NOT PRESS SEND!”
When I replied I sent her the above link to our May 7th Post. She just howled when she read it!
Yes I guess misery does love a little company!
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Our reply to our RHETORICAL QUESTION at the beginning of this Post.
Can you name the one, at the very top of your annual list, that you absolutely, totally dislike?
Taa Daa.. Preparing our Income Taxes!
It was in the early spring of 1970. My family and I were living down in Spartanburg, South Carolina, where I was building racing engines for Ford Motor Company. Parnelli Jones was our driver and we won the hotly contested TransAm Championship for the year 1970.
Anyway, I was working on my Income Taxes and (I’ll never forget the moment) I said to myself: I am NOT going to even begin to figure out all of the loop holes and games people play “cheating if only a little” on their income taxes. From this moment on I will always just take the Standard Deduction.
And I have done just that. And? I still don’t like the process even one teeny weeny iota!
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Cap and Patti
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I discover frequently that I did not press send. However, as most of my messaging is done with facebook’s Messenger on an iPad, I don’t think it’s all my fault. I notice I have to press send two or three times. Facebook and iPads seem to be at odds with each other.
This could be incorrect and it could just be “My Truth” Gullible BUT, it has been my personal experience, that quite often Apple products (especially when texting photos from an Android device to an Apple device) have some “Compatibility Issues” with other platforms. So I sure relate to what you are experiencing. Cap
I hate doing my taxes. In my younger years, I would finish them in the evening on April 15th then find a post office giving late night April 15th postmarks. Now I do them with TurboTax and they make it pretty simple even when I have some complex situations. But I still passionately dislike doing them. I usually owe very little so I don’t know why it makes me anxious. A few years ago, I was late and had to pay a relatively small penalty on my Federal taxes. I learned the penalty is a very high percentage, up to 100% of amount owed up to a certain amount. Never late again. I am already dreading next year’s taxes. I keep saying I will take them to someone but it’s so easy to do it with TurboTax that I slide back into my habit.
Kathleen it’s true. Misery does love at least a little shared misery. We use On Line Taxes (OLT) and yes they are really helpful. Smiling.. Cap and Patti