Pollywogs!

So I got a US Savings Bond from my moms parents every xmas till I
graduated from high school.

Lost them one day. Thats another story…

Started the process of recovering them. So, contact the appropriate
department, get the forms, fill them out…oh, wait, you need the
numbers off the bonds? The bonds are lost!!!

So, fill out a diff form for a bond search. Comes back with maybe 1/4
of the bonds. Call them, say hey, you guys aren’t finding them all,
provide them with every last detail which would be on the bonds.

They come back with maybe 1/2 of the bonds.

Months go by…

I find a list which has the 1/2 of the bonds they can’t find (the most
recent half, believe it or not, so much for modernization). I provide
them with a COMPLETE LIST of my bonds. They come back, unable to deny
me any longer, with the complete list authenticated.

I submit my original form. Signed by two people with a third
independent to verify we are who we say we are…In front of a notary.

I get a letter today. Apparently, one of the bonds were filled out
wrong, with no ‘OR’ or ‘POD’ between the names listed on the bonds (my
mom is the other person, in case something happened to me). So, its an
illegal bond. I have a new form to fill out…actually, my grandparents
get to fill this one out.

OMFG.

Years later, at an unknowable cost to the taxpayers, in a galaxy far
away, I get my bonds back.

Not here, today.