Hi. How's the first season of your school year going? Hopefully well.
Let me start by apologizing. I realize that having 3 different addresses over the course of 5 school years is probably a little bit on the high side. I suppose that most of your sports officials are older people with stable lives and a constant home address, making me a bit of an anomaly.
With that being said, please believe me when I tell you that I am very sure of my home address, and I am confident that when I write it down, it is correct. There is no reason that you need to call me to confirm that the previously mentioned address is, in fact, my address. As I may have mentioned, I was the one who wrote it down. You can make the assumption that the address I wrote is the address I would prefer my checks to be delivered to.
What makes this whole endeavor especially frustrating is that I have taken steps to try to avoid this kind of nonsense. I have spent my entire life developing my penmanship to be easily legible to anyone with a basic amount of literacy. I also have even written "new address" next to my new address so that whoever looks at it will, hopefully, realize that it's a new address.
I would guess that the probability of another official matching my appearance AND having the same name AND officiating in western Mass is fairly low, if not zero. I also doubt that this mysterious twin of mine is out there officiating in my name and trying to steal my money.
As such, I am pleading with you: please send my checks to the address I give you. I promise you that this will not result in any issues.
Also, stop making me fill out new W-9 forms every year. Just because I've moved does not make me a new person. I didn't have to fill out a new tax form every year when I was a teacher, or a math tutor, or a professional craftsman (i.e. urn-maker0, or an ice cream scooping guy, so I shouldn't have to as an official.
Thanks!
-Jon
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