Apr 15, 2008
{ Tax Day! }
-ExcellentIt’s tax day! And the day started with our friendly library patrons lining up outside the doors before we opened, pulling on the door handles, banging on the windows, and clamoring to get in.
As I opened the door a few inches to let a coworker squeeze through:
“Miss, I just need a form. Can’t you just hand me a 1040?
“We open in five minutes. You can get one then.”
“But I just need a form…”
“Yep. In five minutes.”
And then there was the guy who descended on the Circulation Desk as soon as the doors were unlocked, who needed city tax forms.
My friendly library coworker at the desk told him that the city doesn’t provide us with the form, but we have reference copies that he could copy for all of the surrounding cities. Which city’s form did he want?
“The city. I don’t know.”
She listed three of the closest city’s as examples.
“I don’t know. What would you do?
“Where do you work and/or live?”
“In the city.”
“Ok….”
And then having decided on a city that he might reside in, he went over to the copier with the friendly employee where I watched her make the copies for him, because:
“I’m not paying to make my own tax forms. When the hell did the government start charging for tax forms?”
“Sir, the government isn’t charging you for these tax forms. They don’t GIVE us these forms. These are forms that we printed ourselves from the Internet for people to make copies of. The fifteen cents is the copier fee.”
“Well I’m not paying the government for tax forms.”
And we have only been open for ten minutes thus far….
Labels: city, holy crap, Tax Day, taxes, yes I'm bitching again
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