[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All this emphasis on cleaning toilets would make Dr. Freud wonder about
us. As for me, my version of very unpleasant jobs is making out my tax
returns. My tax accountant cleans up my forms, scrubs like mad and is
worth every penny I pay when she presents me with a clean, scrubbed form
ready for my signature.
[snip]
Well, in psychanalytic jargon, addicted bean counters are
"anal retentive".
But I think there is a difference between cleaning toilets
and making out tax returns: Toilets help us deal with a
natural problem (you wouldn't want to go back to where
people dumped their chamber pots out the window onto
the street, would you?). But our tax returns are
an unnecessary and wilful imposition on us, which,
unlike the progress in sanitation (one recent
improvement: toilets that use less than 1/2 the water of
the old ones), is getting worse. I think that deducting
one's medical expenses at the end of the year made a
lot more sense than trying to predict next year's
medical expenses before this year has
ended. Dealing with the tax forms don't feel better than
diarrhea or constipation, just a different nuance
of frustration.
\brad mccormick
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that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
<![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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