N/T- dumber than a box of rocks

[jklcpa]

8879 signed with a highlighter. 

Is my instruction slip that confusing?

[Lee B]

Judy, I think it's really funny

[DANRVAN]

The "High-Lite" of my morning!

[Abby Normal]

The fumes from the highlighter made them high.

[jklcpa]

It gets better. I told her on the phone that if she signed and brought back in person to put it in my box.

Oh no, where did she leave it?  It was under a rock on my office steps.

[Gail in Virginia]

I remember at an IRS forum back in the days of paper filing hearing an IRS agent say that he knew it wasn't the preparer's fault when they got returns in with no signature - they could see the highlights and the sticky notes saying sign here, but there was still no signature.  

I also put the drop off box in at our office because I had a customer that left his papers in the grill out back.  Took a couple of years but I finally convinced him to use the box instead of the grill.  

[schirallicpa]

There's an apartment upstairs where I am.  My mailbox out front is quite large and says "tax office" on it in bright white letters.  And the one next to it is smaller and says "upstairs apt".  

Every year I will hear "I didn't know which box to leave it in."

[kathyc2]

6 hours ago, jklcpa said:

It was under a rock on my office steps.

And there's your box of rocks!

 

[Catherine]

I have a mail slot in my front door.  I tell people, put the envelope through the mail slot. Nope! They leave it between the back door & back screen. Or between the front door & front screen. I've even heard "I couldn't because the slot was blocked" - yeah, by the @#$%$#@ lightly-rolled hand towel that's just a draft stop, that I told them to IGNORE, but instead they ignore the sticky note that says push the towel IN with your envelope.  Including people I have demonstrated the towel to. 

Too stupid to pour sand out of a boot when directions are written on the heel, that's what they are.

[Lion EA]

I don't even have a towel blocking my mail slot, and still find envelopes on my front porch out in the weather or between the doors or leaning against the basement door or...

[Patrick Michael]

I asked a client to text me a picture of the front and back of her license because the ones I had were expired.  She texted back "I don't know how you know they're expired, but here are the pictures".  They were pictures of the license plates on the front and back of her car!

[Abby Normal]

4 hours ago, Patrick Michael said:

I asked a client to text me a picture of the front and back of her license because the ones I had were expired.  She texted back "I don't know how you know they're expired, but here are the pictures".  They were pictures of the license plates on the front and back of her car!

In her defense, you were vague.

[kathyc2]

I'm done playing those games.  Client wants to do things through portal instead of driving close to hour to office.  It went on for days to get info.  First they only sent state signed form. Emailed them that I needed federal also, and to put CC info on invoice and return it if they want to pay that way.  Couple days later, I get the federal form and CC number and code.  Email asking which of their names in on CC and that I need expiration date. Couple days later responds that it's under his name, but still no expiration date.  Finally get everything and they get an email from me that this is not working and they would be better served going somewhere else next year. 

[kathyc2]

13 hours ago, Catherine said:

Too stupid to pour sand out of a boot when directions are written on the heel, that's what they are.

LOL!  Way back in the day when I worked corporate, the owner of company said that to many a supplier.  Best is when he said it to police department when company driver was ticketed!