Complaints From A Beautiful Senior

In a few months, the autumn leaves will be falling all over my property yet we have no trees. We cut down all our own trees many years ago to eliminate all this raking and bagging, yet other leaves find their way to our yard.

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 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. The head director never even read them; he was giving them busy work even though they were too busy already. One day the doctor 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 since 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 spent 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.

Mom many years ago 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 was dated eleven days ago and had just arrived to her. It said 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. 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. There is a phone scam and it tells you on a message to your machine to call this number back immediately, because they have called you 5 times and you, bad person have not returned their calls.This is a scam, IRS never calls, they send you a letter and let you respond to them.People, mainly seniors have called them back and they are demanding you send them money at once or you will be taken and be jailed. It is a hoax on seniors and some have done so and lost the money. Never, ever call the number and do not call them and if you mistakenly do, never send them a money order or give any information on you to them. Hang up on them and go about your business. They are scam people and forget them.

It seems everybody is out to take your money and DO NOT PAY ATTENTION TO THESE REQUESTS.

Elita Sohmer Clayman Fairfax Station Patch

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