A Complainer Who Is A Cute, Competent Senior

Today is the 9th of July, many weeks away from the first day of autumn. You know the autumn leaves will be falling all over my property then and we have no trees. We have the neighbor's many trees and their leaves. Do they not know that it is improper to mess up another person's property? They fall and they seem to realize that they must go to their left to come on my little piece of land, so my husband has to rake their leaves and they close their eyes to the swaying of their leaves.

We cut down all our own trees many years ago to eliminate all this raking and bagging and etc.

One neighbor has a tree that the squirrels love and they climb it and they must get some nuts and make a mess. He once in a while will clean it up and grudgingly comes over and cleans some of his mess in front of my house.

There should be a law to fine people whose leaves mess up a neighbor's nice and clean lawn.

Only kidding, but really it is a good idea that will never make it attached to another law on the records like our congressmen like to do.

I had a professor once who was a psychiatric doctor in a medium size mental (which was privately) owned hospital. The director loved to give the doctors lots of paper work (long before computers) to write on this and that and that and this. This doctor, my friend knew that the head director never even read them; he was giving them busy work even though they were too busy already. One day Dr. L. played a joke on him. He handed in a ten page report and he wrote only his thoughts on the first two pages. The last eight pages were blank.

He received a glowing and appreciative report saying that his work was fine and he had established a good opinion. He laughed because only the first two pages were anything pertaining to the opinions sought and the last eight could be used for scrap paper.

Do you think our congressmen really read and know what is in the bills they present and who adds on to what about anything? Nancy Pelosi said we will have to sign the health bill and then we will read it. This they did and now problems are occurring every day before it is implemented.

I laugh when I hear the money being spent everywhere and the billions offered everywhere else. And then they take an innocent old senior like me and send her a letter telling her that her drug coverage premium will be raised two dollars and ten cents a month because she is being punished. Punished for not signing up for it the first year and so she is being penalized two dollars a month for her naughtiness. Ha. So they get me for over 25 dollars a year because I am a bad person. Multiply this by thousands or millions and this will help to pay for some of the money being sent and misused.

Maybe the congressmen need to have a thing like spell check at the end of each bill submitted and this will tell them things have been added on erroneously. I called the drug plan place which was really part of Blue Cross Carefirst and the lady at the other end said “really, this is interesting, I will tell my superior." I said forget it, because probably another ten page report will be written and the first two will be about my complaint and the last eight will be blank. Ha

Mom many years ago, about thirty-one or so got a letter from Social Security at about 5 pm in the afternoon on a Friday. She called me up frantically worried, because the letter dated eleven days ago and had just arrived to her said that she would not get her next SS check, because they had overpaid her 25 dollars and they wanted it back immediately. However, it just arrived. I ran over there to calm her down and on Monday I called SS on her behalf. I told them it had just arrived and that they made an old lady upset threatening her with no SS check next month, unless they had the 25 back and it already was days overdue since it never  came until today. The employee said she would mark it down on Mom’s record and to send the 25 in care of her and to tell Mom not to worry. Maybe the letter for the 25 dollars should have been sent via Fed Express or UPS so it would have arrived immediately.

So here is Mom being threatened, an old senior, here is Elita a bad person, because she did not sign up early enough for a program and we sure are bad guys or gals.

The average American is a good soul, prompt in their requirements, hardworking, caring, and kind and we get noticed.

It is nice to be noticed, appreciated and cared about. But not in this way.

Perhaps I will write a report about these notices. The first page will be with the facts and pages 2 through 10 will be blank. I am sure no one will read it, like it or care about. Maybe I will win a writing award for being a caring, competent, careful, considerate and cute old senior. I hope the IRS doesn’t send me a note for sure because I am a complainer and if they do, please send it via Fed Express, UPS or even USA priority mail. I will really appreciate that.

Maybe the coming autumn leaves will spare me this autumn and blow somewhere else or I may have to write a scathing letter about them too. Who knows that may be a great theme for an award winning story. If I win some money for the article, I will surely submit the taxes right away, so I do not get another letter reminding me to do so.