OK, who else submitted their taxes today?

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My wife and I finished with both fed and state around 8pm and headed to the post office next to LAX. While this is a yearly pilgrimage for me, this is the latest Alley has ever filed.

Because I still have tax issues from my time as a broker we don't file jointly for federal, but it was to our slight advantage to file jointly for state. I'm getting reamed, and Alley is getting a few pennies back.

Mean while back at the point; the approaches to the post office was a snarled traffic jam from all directions. Every year this post office is the only one in the Los Angeles area that stays open till midnight and makes sure that all tax returns are stamped with today's date. I whipped in to a gated drive way a half mile from the p.o. and jogged the rest of the way. When I reached the postal workers and bins I noticed that the people on foot were a true cross section of America. Bikers, professionals, all types, all ages.

The funny thing was we were all smiling, really! We were the ones out of our cars dodging the hyper aggressive people trying to get to the curb drop off point, honking at each other and us. I think that half of us were smiling in slight embarrassment for being such slackers, and the other half (including me) was smiling at the spectacle of it all. It's the not so little things that bring us together.