I got a letter from my State's tax commission a couple weeks ago informing me that there had been a mistake made several years back and I was never issued my state tax refund for that year and would be mailing me a check within the next 30 days. I thought "huh..well, that's cool" and kept it in mind.
Said check showed up in my mail, today...with a twin. I was about to call my tax commission to let them know they had shipped me double the listed refund when I looked over the initial letter once again..and unfolded the bottom part I had failed to notice was folded and saw that, nope: the money was mine.
Happy birthday to me.
Whatcha buying with that moola, dude?!
Right now...nothing.
I'm too much in the mindset of "something's
wrong, here" because my story got weird after I deposited my checks. I went to toss everything into my checking account when I noticed that it was reading a surplus from what it should have been...by over 5k. The teller then informed me that I received a payment from the Military for said amount..and I'm not sure
why.
There's been some discrepancies with my pay for a few months and I filed a reimbursement for some travel I did earlier in the year..but I didn't think it'd all equal out to
that much. I need to call my finance office and find out what the heck happened.
I'm not used to having financial windfalls come my way. I'm in a "bunker down and prepare for the inevitable storm that life's going to throw at you as soon as your guard is down because this is an obvious
trick" sort of mood.