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When Did People Stop Thinking for a Living?

By dgulbran

So, now that I have a little one at home (well, have for a while) I decided I should have some life insurance. Not a lot, but enough so that should something happen to me (god forbid) my wife and baby wouldn’t be thrown into complete economic turmoil. Anyway, today, I got an e-mail from the insurance underwriter. It said,
“I am in receipt of your application and there is a question that did not get answered. Just as a reminder to continue the process of your application all requirements must be completed.
To avoid delay in processing your application please answer the following question below:
Is any person to be insured now pregnant?”
I honestly wasn’t sure how to respond to that. You see, *I* am the person to be insured on the application. The only person to be insured. The only person on the application. The application which also asked my sex.
Was it really necessary to ask me that question? The underwriter couldn’t have just checked “no” and went on with her day, and not interrupted mine? Okay. Whatever. So I responded:
“Since I’m the person to be insured, I can assure you, I am not pregnant. ”
I thought that would be the end of it. But no. They wrote back. Telling me, “we cannot leave any questions unanswered.” So I had to respond with:
“Is any person to be insured now pregnant? No.”
Seriously. When did people stop thinking–or being allowed to think on the job. I could understand needing clarification if the question were ambiguous. Or could have any possible answer. But needing to ask a *male* applicant for an insurance policy if he could be pregnant??! This is why America is going to hell in a handbasket.

Full post as published by Preaching to the Perverted on July 12, 2010 (boomark / email).