Ari Rankum
NAFO Karting Champion, 2012
...you get a call from HR concerning your new life insurance beneficiary declaration that features 3 primary beneficiaries that goes like this:
HR: "Who gets 34?"
Mio: "Excuse me?"
HR: "Who gets the 34?"
Mio: "What 34?"
HR: "It has to add to 100. You have 3 beneficiaries on your life insurance form. If I give everyone 33, that only adds to 99. You have to give someone 34."
(Now, imagine certain situations, like, say, after you're dead, that you'd like to leave every member of a group of people with a lasting, nay, EVERLASTING belief that there were no favorites. Then, put yourself back in the present and think about this HR creature's demand. Take a breath. Let out your first thought.)
Mio: "Why don't you just write 1/3, 1/3, 1/3?"
HR: "I can use fractions?"
Mio: "Yes." (Spoken emphatically, with a tone meant to leave no doubt, or somepin.)
HR: "Okay. I'll use fractions."
Yes, every once in a while, quite without expecting it, a little life bleeds out....
HR: "Who gets 34?"
Mio: "Excuse me?"
HR: "Who gets the 34?"
Mio: "What 34?"
HR: "It has to add to 100. You have 3 beneficiaries on your life insurance form. If I give everyone 33, that only adds to 99. You have to give someone 34."
(Now, imagine certain situations, like, say, after you're dead, that you'd like to leave every member of a group of people with a lasting, nay, EVERLASTING belief that there were no favorites. Then, put yourself back in the present and think about this HR creature's demand. Take a breath. Let out your first thought.)
Mio: "Why don't you just write 1/3, 1/3, 1/3?"
HR: "I can use fractions?"
Mio: "Yes." (Spoken emphatically, with a tone meant to leave no doubt, or somepin.)
HR: "Okay. I'll use fractions."
Yes, every once in a while, quite without expecting it, a little life bleeds out....
