Second blog post in one day: This one's called "TurboTax, version: SUCK.O"

This is why I hate winter and turbotax and anything else that makes my life NOT AWESOME: It forces me to do things I really do not want to do. Like sitting around. Sitting around and forcing yourself to do adulty-things. Like taxes. Because you can only sit around and watch Hannah Montana for so long before you start to feel like maybe this isn't the best way to be spending your time.

You know why no one wants to do adulty-things? Because they are boring. Because you get lured into this false sense of security, which is that these things are adulty and therefore will make perfect sense and not be complicated at all. Because you think it's going to take you ten minutes and then you look at the clock 3 hours later and realize you're just guessing that it took you three hours because can't even read the clock and your eyes don't know how to focus on anything that isn't a computer screen anymore.

Maybe I should just get to the point.

TURBOTAX SUCKS. and here's why.

I had everything DONE.
DONE.
DONE.

But TURBOTAX (version:SUCK.O) was telling me that I had an error. And to "fix" this "error" I had to fill out "more" information about "my" adopted child.

I don't know If you know this about me, but [I like to use quotes on random words. Also] I DONT HAVE AN ADOPTED CHILD. In fact, up until about a half a year ago, I thought I never wanted children. Children are rude and loud. Children only care about these things: getting chocolate milk and Zu Zu pets and screaming and jumping up and down in shopping carts while their parents pretend like they aren't screaming and jumping up and down in shopping carts.

So anyways, I don't have any children and I don't recall ever giving TURBOTAX the impression that I did. In fact, they weren't even letting me say that I had no adopted children, they just wanted me to fill in the information anyway.

Since I'm not an idiot (kind of), I looked this up on the TURBOTAX help forum. Guess who is having this problem? At least 35 other people. Guess who is answering their questions? NO ONE. One person even said they called support, who told them THEY HAD NO SUGGESTIONS ON HOW TO HELP WITH THIS PROBLEM. (WHAT?! How about I torrent the shit out your software. How's that for solving the problem?)


Anyway, that's how I solved the problem. By making it worse. I was able to hit "delete" and THEN go back to the section where it asked me if I had an adopted child. Then I answered everyone's questions on the forums and the peasants rejoiced.

Do you think they'd appreciate my sense of humor if I had filed like that? My head says no, but my other head (the one that believes everyone has common sense) says I think they'd get the picture.

The other reason that I hate winter (besides TurboTax) is because I'm not motivated to do anything. Except prompt people to ask me if I went to taco bell twice in two days. (hint: I TOTALLY DID.)