According to Wiki: The Ides of March is a day on the Roman calendar that corresponds to the 15th of March. It was marked by several religious observances and was notable for the Romans as a deadline for settling debts.
Friends, Romans but specifically Americans know that, with some exceptions, April 15th is Tax Day in the U.S. Tax Day is the date in which whether you owe Uncle Sam (the anthropomorphize avatar of the US government) or Uncle Sam owes money, you grin and bare/bear it and have to have your taxes filed.
I mostly remember the Ides these days because my mother was one of those people who though having received her W-2 at the end of January, would still wait until April 14th to mail in her taxes.
In elementary school most of us learn about Julius Caesar and his infamous last words when his supposed rod dog/main bro Brutus turned coat on him and just watched him get shanked on March 15th. <– Like my revisionist history? I once made a joke that Mach 15th was the 30 day warning bell. Mommy knew she had a month to get her taxes in order. My mother would have loved that Tax Day is on April 18th this year for it would have given her two more days of procrastination.
And why all of that? Because somehow a discussion on taxes came up while attending the repast of an erstwhile colleague.
Death and Taxes – get it? Get it?
Yeah, yeah, yeah – I know, bad Raivenne, bad! I’ll go bed now.
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Today is Day 15 – The Ides of March Slice Of Life Story Challenge.
Come see how others are slicing it up today.
Raivenne-lations 
I am assuming you got your taxes done. I finished on Sunday and I raise the tax god called Turbo Tax – my tax life much calmer, once we met. Thanks for the history tidbits. Hope it all goes well with your mum.
Good. I still have quite a while before I need to get my taxes done. No sense paying the government early. I wonder why with all the ways they have of know our business the government can’t just send us a bill saying, “We checked your earnings and what you had withheld and you now owe us…” or “We saw that you overpaid us so here is a check for…”