Strike that
The residual fallout from my grandfather's death continues.
Mom discovered there was some sort of form that needed to be filled out within 30 days of his death. That would be...Thursday. Yikes. So she worked on it over the weekend; this is what she'd called dad and me about on Saturday while we were on the Kennedy. Yeah...can't help you from the car. She did what she could with it then, and found out more information about it on Saturday as well, like where to find someone to notarize it.
Yesterday, she gets to a question that has to do with his debts. I'm not sure we know the entirety of his debts at this time, but he has some. The question was phrased similar to this:
7. Strike the one that isn't true:
7a. All funeral and other debts have been paid, OR
7b. Decedent has funeral and outstanding debts.
(There was then a listing of the various debts still owed, in multiple categories, something like 10 total.)
To me, the question was pretty straightforward. Either the decedent was debt-free, or he wasn't. You crossed out the one that wasn't true. However, my mother was so confused by it that she called her mom, the former law secretary, who also then told her incorrect information. Like, grandma told her to cross out the part of 7a that said "all other debts." NO. Either the entirety of the line was true or it wasn't. Does he have any debts whatsoever? Then cross out 7a. Part of the confusion was that mom wasn't sure what strike meant. Well, you're not picketing anything...and I don't see a bowling ball around... Really, you work with word processing programs; you've never see the term strike-through on anything? With a line drawn through the words to illustrate the term? Sigh. And I will say, if you didn't bother to read the full question, it might have looked like 7b was only asking about funeral expenses. What it was was that the first part of the answer had to do with funeral expenses, and then there was a space to write in the debtor; then came the second part of the answer, and another space; and so on until you listed all the debtors by category. Remember those tests in school that made you read the entire thing before you filled anything out? That's what this reminded me of. Mom must have been one of those kids who wrote her name up in the corner before getting all the way to the end where it told you not to.
As far as I know, she was able to file the form, so at least that's one more thing to cross off the list--or strike, if you prefer. Right now it seems like for every one item crossed off, two more appear. We kind of just need to get through the holiday and then make it into the new year, and things hopefully will calm down.
Mom discovered there was some sort of form that needed to be filled out within 30 days of his death. That would be...Thursday. Yikes. So she worked on it over the weekend; this is what she'd called dad and me about on Saturday while we were on the Kennedy. Yeah...can't help you from the car. She did what she could with it then, and found out more information about it on Saturday as well, like where to find someone to notarize it.
Yesterday, she gets to a question that has to do with his debts. I'm not sure we know the entirety of his debts at this time, but he has some. The question was phrased similar to this:
7. Strike the one that isn't true:
7a. All funeral and other debts have been paid, OR
7b. Decedent has funeral and outstanding debts.
(There was then a listing of the various debts still owed, in multiple categories, something like 10 total.)
To me, the question was pretty straightforward. Either the decedent was debt-free, or he wasn't. You crossed out the one that wasn't true. However, my mother was so confused by it that she called her mom, the former law secretary, who also then told her incorrect information. Like, grandma told her to cross out the part of 7a that said "all other debts." NO. Either the entirety of the line was true or it wasn't. Does he have any debts whatsoever? Then cross out 7a. Part of the confusion was that mom wasn't sure what strike meant. Well, you're not picketing anything...and I don't see a bowling ball around... Really, you work with word processing programs; you've never see the term strike-through on anything? With a line drawn through the words to illustrate the term? Sigh. And I will say, if you didn't bother to read the full question, it might have looked like 7b was only asking about funeral expenses. What it was was that the first part of the answer had to do with funeral expenses, and then there was a space to write in the debtor; then came the second part of the answer, and another space; and so on until you listed all the debtors by category. Remember those tests in school that made you read the entire thing before you filled anything out? That's what this reminded me of. Mom must have been one of those kids who wrote her name up in the corner before getting all the way to the end where it told you not to.
As far as I know, she was able to file the form, so at least that's one more thing to cross off the list--or strike, if you prefer. Right now it seems like for every one item crossed off, two more appear. We kind of just need to get through the holiday and then make it into the new year, and things hopefully will calm down.