Bankruptcy bankrupt
When Iron Crown Enterprises, publishers of the Middle-Earth Role-Playing system, went bankrupt a couple years back, David was one of those left holding bags. His is not a very big bag. They just owe him a few hundred on the last book he worked on. (Was it Hands of the Healer? Might have been, though I’m not sure.)
I wrote off that money a long time ago (though, come to think of it, I never have claimed it as uncollectable on our taxes—ought to do that). I know perfectly well we’re never going to see it, and I’m quite reconciled to that. In the Grand Scheme o’ Things, no big deal.
When the bankruptcy was first announced, though, I hadn’t any idea what kind of shape ICE was in, so when the claim forms arrived, I helped David fill one out and send it in. Ever since, we’ve gotten communiqués from ICE’s bankruptcy lawyers every so often.
Today they had to tell us that they want to be allowed to pay an accountant more than twice what David is owed for doing ICE’s 2002 taxes.
Something’s just kinda weird about that. I don’t have any objection to seeing the accountant get paid; poor schmo deserves it. But it just strikes me that they could save an awful lot of paperwork and postage if they’d just pay off a bunch of small creditors like David.
Yeah, yeah, I know it can’t happen that way. But it’d be way more tidy and efficient than what’s been happening.
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