Waitress Gets Half-Million Dollar Tax Refund
Virginia Hopkins is a great waitress and she's used to getting great tips. But the one she got from her Uncle Sam on Tuesday nearly knocked her to the floor.
Virginia is owed a tax refund of $754, for which she has been waiting eagerly. But the check she opened was for more. A lot more: $434,712.
"I think I would have to work most of my life to earn that much money," she says. "Even with undeclared tips," she adds with a laugh.
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Once she'd convinced them she wasn't trying to scam the U.S. government by bringing in a large check, she says the IRS people were very polite. They took the check and promised to thoroughly investigate the error.
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"It's not easy being poor after you've been rich," she jokes. But she did get something out of the experience.
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Sipping a margarita and not giving a damn 
Heinlein has a little story about a janitor who got a paycheck for 20 billion dollars or some such due to "computer error."
The guy is smart, he doesn't try to cash it, but sells it to a collector. This waitress was much too law-abiding.
-- Mal
