On most days I have just learned to laugh...and survive. The computer "goes out" just when one needs it the most --- in the midst of school registration the entire program used to register students is offline for days and we are instructed to: "keep registering students as before." Hah! How does one do that?
You go to DMV to have your driver's license renewed -- and now suddenly have to have your "birth certificate" in hand because of a new state law passed to catch "voter fraud" where no "voter fraud" exists -- but "voter suppression" of older folks who haven't seen their birth certificates in 40 years is a certainty! Political maneuvering of voter and license registration should be a crime. Gerrymandering should also be a crime. Profiting from regulations like these, either for a political party or for an individual, should be jailable offenses!
Karma interferes -- a person like me is lucky enough to have a sibling like Linda who gets me through the absolutely maddening points of bureaucracies -- gets my birth certificate sent to me via UPS -- but then, hold on; they only deliver their packages when they want -- so: "be there (at home) or tough luck." Situation finally saved by a very conscientious delivery man for UPS who works well after dark to rectify the situation (ie deliver the package) and save my driver's license.
Of course it doesn't end there -- because the DMV looks at my birth certificate (really) and asks where it is from -- and if it's a legal document, and if it is real, and where is Milwaukee (is it real?),
and...and... you get the idea. In the South, everything they haven't heard of is probably in Canada, or Afghanistan, or on the Moon, or.... Oh, my God -- what a series of adventures we all undergo!
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