
In the Monopoly boardgame one of the cards that can be drawn is the one that exclaims that the bank has made an error in your favor and you may collect $200. It is one of the nicer cards. Something like this happened to me. In the mail yesterday, there was not one, but two letters from my insurance company. I opened them and in both there was a check for ~$12,000, the money to cover the insurance company’s part of the damage caused by the squirrel. I was confused. The amount looked good, but why two checks? I called the insurance company, but it already being after four, I was eventually shunted to voicemail. I got a callback this morning. The “bank” had made an error, seemingly in my favor, but one of the checks had already been voided. But wait, apparently there is also supposedly a third check, the proverbial check in the mail. If or when this check shows up that would have easily given me more than enough money to buy a whole new car outright, cash on the barrel head. I can just say that I thought that they had totaled the car. I guess that little squirrel has caused a whole heaping pile of trouble. More than I ever imagined.