Tax Return

On Thursday, the day after my mom got into Utah, she called and asked if I wanted to go to lunch with her, Grandma, Aunt Julie, and Mitchell at Jason's Deli. Since Andrew had the car, Julie came to pick me up. I stopped by my mailbox on the way to the car and was excited to find our $227 tax return from the State of Utah. I took it with me into the car and decided that I would leave it inside when we got to Jason's Deli. After lunch when Julie dropped me back off at my house I didn't see the envelope anywhere in the car. Julie told me that when she dropped us off at the entrance before she went to park she saw a piece of paper float in front of the windshield and didn't think about it. We rushed back to the parking lot and Mitchell and I laid down on the asphalt to look and asked the 3 stores there if an envelope had been found outside. Unfortunately, it was a VERY windy day and Julie seemed to think that if it had caught wind it would have flown over the highway to the fence line on the other side. So here I was, 1 hour before Convocation for graduation, hair curled and all, traffic piled along the highway, as I ran back and forth along University Parkway in search of my tax return. Right when I was going to give up, I found the envelope to the tax return there at the end of the ditch. I was stunned, but the only thing is there was no check inside. It looked like the envelope had been run over several times as there were tire marks on both sides and we wondered if somehow the check had been separated. We drove around to the park on the other side of the fence to see if it was on the field. But, right as we drove up a huge recycle truck had just picked up a bin and the wind had blown out most of the papers from the bin so they were soaring in a tornado toward the park field. We were so discouraged. By the end, we had found the envelope, but no check. I went back the next day to briefly look again, but still couldn't find it. Andrew and I faxed in a form to cancel the check and hopefully get a new one sent if someone has not somehow cashed it. We are keeping the envelope for memory's sake, but it was overall a very odd experience.