{"id":8695,"date":"2015-09-25T00:05:45","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T05:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/?p=8695"},"modified":"2015-09-25T09:05:46","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T14:05:46","slug":"an-irs-agent-for-a-fantastic-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/an-irs-agent-for-a-fantastic-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"An IRS Agent for a Fantastic Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/shapeimage_1-21141-300x171.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8696\" src=\"http:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/shapeimage_1-21141-300x171.png\" alt=\"shapeimage_1-21141-300x171\" width=\"500\" height=\"285\" \/><\/a>This Fantastic Friday pays tribute to my father&#8217;s cousins Garnett Morris and Jeanie Painter. This post was written shortly after Garnett died in September of 2009. This past July Jeanie, Dad&#8217;s last living cousin, passed away. Too late, I once again wish I&#8217;d made visiting them and learning their history a greater priority.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>My IRS Agent<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My IRS agent Garnett Morris (left) died last night. Up until last year she worked incognito, at Ieast from my perspective. I learned of her former occupation last October when my mother (center) and Garnett\u2019s sister Jeannie (right) visited Garnett at the nursing home she\u2019d recently moved into.<\/p>\n<p>Garnett\u2019s mind was sharp, and she shared stories about her life in Des Moines during and after World War II. My parents always had great respect for Garnett, who was my dad\u2019s cousin, a career woman and mother in an era when most women stayed home with their children. But they never mentioned (or more likely I never paid attention when they did) that she worked for the IRS.<\/p>\n<p>My retelling of the details may be fuzzy since Garnett\u2019s revelation left me shell shocked. Dad\u2019s faithful older cousin who sent him birthday cards year after year was with the Feds? This comfortable woman, whose Christmas letters were full of exceedingly average family news, was an IRS agent? How could I pay attention to what she said after a bombshell like that?<\/p>\n<p>If what I remember is anything close to accurate, she started as an office worker, not as an agent. But eventually, she was promoted and in charge of a whole lot of office workers. And she traveled to be trained and to train other people, which I figure could have been her story while she did secret tax audits. So I think she really was an IRS agent, but the government doesn\u2019t want her to blow her cover.<\/p>\n<p>Ever since that day, I\u2019ve wanted to visit her again and get the skinny on her job, under the guise of taking Mom and Jeannie to see her again. But I never got around to it, and now it\u2019s too late.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m a little sad today, not because my overactive imagination didn\u2019t get fresh fodder. I\u2019m sad because Garnett would have enjoyed our visit. So in honor of Garnett, I\u2019m going to conduct a time audit and straighten out my priorities. If I inherited the same accountant gene she did, it will be easy. More likely, my overactive imagination is messing with my head, and it\u2019s going to be a chore.<\/p>\n<p>Whichever it is, I know that while I\u2019m tidying up my Day Planner, Dad and Garnett will enjoy a good talk. Because everybody in my dad\u2019s family inherited the visiting gene. 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