Jeremy Herndon

I don’t know why I always wait until the almost last minute to do my taxes!  I think it is a bad habit that I learned from my parents.  They always waited until the last minute to file their taxes; I can remember driving to the Post Office at 11:45pm and dropping the envelopes with the tax forms in the long handled net that the Post Office Employees were holding out to the cars as people drove past them, so the people could just drop their taxes in the nets and not have to get out of their cars.

I know that my parents did their taxes at the last minute because they had to pay taxes every year and they didn’t want to part with their money a second sooner than they absolutely HAD to.  But, come on, driving to the Post Office at 11:45pm?  That’s carrying it a little bit too far!

I’m lucky; I always get some money back, which is why it makes little sense for me to wait until the last minute to file my taxes.  I think maybe it is really a case that I’m afraid that if I file them any sooner, I will get some forms in the mail afterwards that will require that I send in a revision, and I don’t want to have to do all of that extra work!