Just In Case We Die It’s All Settled OK Ciao!

A friend forwarded this short email chain with the note, “I get an almost identical email or phone call from my mom every time they get on a plane.”

TO: [son]
FROM: [mom]
SUBJECT: Our Trip

Lad, we’ll be gone June 1–15. I’ll send you a copy of our itinerary with phone numbers at all the hotels we’ll be staying at. It’s at work. I will send tomorrow.

I am putting our legal docs in one of your drawers in your room. Our Joint Trust, our individual wills, our General Powers of Attorney and our Advance Medical Directives. I also have the lawyer’s and financial advisor’s contact info.

TO: [mom]
FROM: [son]
SUBJECT: Re: Our Trip

Ok!

TO: [son]
FROM: [dad]
SUBJECT: Re: Our Trip

You’ll be in tall cotton if we go down in flames. Also, be careful going thru stuff, some valuable things are hidden in plain sight.

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