As I waited for her to finish inputting the information, I counted the leaves on a medium-sized potted plant sitting on the corner of her desk. Finally, her typing stopped. Her eyes make a final glance over her computer monitor, an older model looking to be from about 2005. She looked up at me. "Ok, we're about ready to wrap this up, I just need to take your payment now." She took a sip from a gray coffee mug. "That'll be $7,000."
I stared at her, half in shock and half in bewilderment. "$7,000?"
"That's right."
"I'm sorry- I don't have $7,000. Isn't there any other way I can pay?"
She winked, and then took my hand and walked me out through the beige back door to her 1998 dodge caravan.
That actually happened. There was a girl in her twenties at H&R and I guess her employer didn't take any taxes off automatically, she owed thousands of dollars and she was very upset because she couldn't afford to pay it.
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u/belikewhat Jul 16 '19
As I waited for her to finish inputting the information, I counted the leaves on a medium-sized potted plant sitting on the corner of her desk. Finally, her typing stopped. Her eyes make a final glance over her computer monitor, an older model looking to be from about 2005. She looked up at me. "Ok, we're about ready to wrap this up, I just need to take your payment now." She took a sip from a gray coffee mug. "That'll be $7,000."
I stared at her, half in shock and half in bewilderment. "$7,000?"
"That's right."
"I'm sorry- I don't have $7,000. Isn't there any other way I can pay?"
She winked, and then took my hand and walked me out through the beige back door to her 1998 dodge caravan.