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I was trying to print something the other day when my machine just processed the paper and sent it out as blank as when I put it in.  Yo, I thought, we have a problema here. No inko.
So I grabbed the spare cartridge that Miss Alice so thoughtfully had provided and after a few mishaps, got it into place.
Hurraaaah, I thought. And on we go. Ta DAhhhh.
Not so fast.....the little screen on the machine lit up with a maliciuous gleam and said....cartridge incompatible !
Say What, I moaned. INCOMPATIBLE ? How ? They assured Miss Alice that this was the right one. They did. She told me herself. She did . They did.
and so I changed the F...ing cartridge back and forth until i finally admitted defeat. I had to get a new one.
Which was another item on my list of things to get and LO.....at WalMart they had a sale on the particular cartridge that I needed for my particular printer---why they don't have one size fits all is beyond me ---and I got it and I replaced the old one and eventually got the thing to work.
Am I clever or what ?  And all that was for a receipt for an absentee owner here in Lomas Del Pacifico who had problems with the IRS and needed proof of a payment of one thousand pesos ( less, much less than a hundred dollars these days ) to the fledgling  HOA where I am the treasurer by default. It makes you wonder what the IRS is doing to the big fish if they spend so much time on items less than a hundred bucks.