I Think I’m Offended
Actually, I KNOW I’m offended. I’m just not sure at who.
Here’s a bit of background since I’m sure you’re dying to know:
As many of you know, I’m a trustee for a trust that a friend of mine created upon her death. The beneficiary is a man in jail (who I’ve never met). At the end of each calendar year, I’m required to create an annual report to provide him with a balance sheet of the funds in the trust (a summary of what went in and what went out of the trust).
I prepared the annual report in February and even ran it by my attorney because I have a history with this beneficiary being difficult (to say the least). She approved the report and I submitted it to the beneficiary. Legally, he has 60 days to return a form indicating his acceptance to the accuracy of the report.
He didn’t.
Instead, he was his typical difficult self and actually sent a letter directly to my attorney saying he wanted her to go to the prison and meet with him to discuss the accuracy of my accounting methods. Meanwhile, she immediately sent the letter to me since she works for me and not him and would need my approval to go there. Long story short, she never went in an advised him to deal directly with me since she would be charging nearly $300 an hour.
Weeks later I received a letter from him with a slew of questions about my accounting methods and after careful review realized that, as I suspected, I had done EVERYTHING correctly and he just didn’t understand basic accounting (numbers in parenthesis are negative, balance sheets are summaries and not detailed lists of every little expense, etc…).
I sent back a rather condescending response essentially telling him that he didn’t know basic accounting and that he wasted my time, the attorney’s time, and nearly $1,000 of his own trust money because of his unnecessary questions.
I was expecting to get a nasty response in return, but instead he actually sent back the consent form (accepting the accuracy of my annual report) along with a very sweet letter thanking me for everything I’d done for him and my late friend’s estate since she died. He explained that he was finally given a copy of a video that was made of the memorial service I coordinated for her (since he couldn’t attend) and that he could see me in the background.
In fact…this is what he wrote (please note that English is his second language):
“It was a very emotional and sad moment, but at the same time I felt joy. The feeling of love, and caring and time you all gave Regina before and after her passing gave me joy and brought an smile to my face…I did recognoized you sitting behind Regina’s brother Larry. I couldn’t miss you, the way Regina described you to me when she told me about you. She told me you look a little like Woody Allen, and she was right. Don’t you think so?”
TWINS?
WTF? I mean, I can accept that I’m not George Clooney, but people think I look like a nebbish Jewish senior citizen? I don’t know who to be more angry with…my late friend or him.
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LOL! Sorry. No, you don’t look like the pedophile Allen. In all the time I’ve known you that never crossed my mind. Maybe that was Regina’s idea of a clever joke with a long-term payoff and she’s cackling right now at your blog. Don’t be angry, remember, it’s just a cover for the hurt.
funny, i never thought of the resemblance. maybe you could dig up a pic of mr allen at the age you are now, and see if the resemblance is any less uncanny.
I remember Woody Allen when he was Karl”s current age, and there STILL isn’t any resemblance. But maybe the reference is just to Karl’s antic sense of humor and many talents.
It’s good that he finally came around–I hope you won’t have this kind problem in future years.
Really, I think that you are a dead ringer for Woody! It’s like identical twins born 40 years apart!
I don’t know Karl……
The prisoner may be on to something……..
I’m kidding!! Really. I think.
Snarling, it’s just the ears. And the glasses. And possibly the forehead. I don’t know; I think there are worse comparisons (both in terms of validity / accuracy and cruelty) but quite honestly, it never occurred to me that there was any similarity. It’s just these two pictures I think, and at that, as I say, the ears, the black glasses. Possibly the forehead. Am I helping or am I making it worse? Maybe, ooh ooh ooh, MAYBE, since English is his second language he really meant FRED DURST, not WOODY ALLEN. Ah? Hah? See? Look, I’m trying, ok?
Well, the neurosis is certainly identical.
OUCH. Why do I consider you people my friends?
You haven’t been to My Heritage yet?
I did your photo for you – the top match was Chester Bennington from Linkin Park, which is like a million times improved over Woody Allen. I won’t spoil the surprise and let you check out the rest…
That’s pretty cool…but it seems they based my celebrity look-alike on the glasses alone (the next closest celebreties all have clunky glasses, too)! I took the test again using a photo without my glasses and it seems to think I resemble Mickey Rourke (in his younger, sexy rough trade days…not the post plastic surgery and drug addiction Mickey Rourke)
FUN!
no resemblance whatsoever
I am soo on my way to myheritage.com! 🙂
I still think you look like the guy in the Outback Steak House commercials. Though once he opens his mouth all resemblance stops.
Just the glasses, my friend. I wouldn’t blame R. Hey, for all we know she thought Woody was kinda cute. I wouldn’t put it past her :D.