alright… now .. if there’s one thing i really really dislike its official papers and application forms… any mistake that you’re ever going to make in life.. youre going to do it on that sheet of paper in front of you. TFL student oyster application forms.. nonrefundable.. no mistakes.. and then university admin who don’t know what they’re doing.. forgetting to fill bits in.. putting the wrong signiture in the wrong place.. who don’t realise till you prompt them.. greato.
Im now filling in an application form for my provisional driving licence which i lost about six months ago.. the application has been sitting in my flat for 3 months now.. every other line of fine print seems to contradict the next.. great… and theres actually a handbook included with the pack.. incase you get confused.. couldn’t they just make it really clear to begin with.. well thankfully sifting through the book brought me to a telephone number.. much less painful.
my council has also sent me a form to renew the status of my council tax exemption. well.. i was giggling.. ‘yours faithfully..[blank]‘, nice.. not so faithful and trustworthy to put a name down eh? then whip out the envelope … ‘please complete the application form overleaf and return the whole letter to the address above.’ NICE… no address.. then it proceeds to say ‘complete the form and return the whole letter’. um.. so do i also return the bit addressed to me which has my account details..which the form doesn’t have? oh well in it goes.. lets hope it arrives.
oh and on a side note.. that ‘urgent’ situation with my electricity meter being exposed… well a month after the i called in and could (eventually) arrange a time to sit at home and have them come (because i HAD TO BE THERE so that i could make sure that things worked?!) … they came this morning.. um.. yes it was a two minute appointment really.. ‘well your box needs fixing.’ (yes. i can see that.. thats kind of why i called) ‘but your box is too small for the meter.. i mean we’ll need to change your meter too, so really we’ve just got to install a whole new box but we can’t do it now obviously we’ll need to get permission and the likes.’ that was it. i gave the contact details of my agent to them and off they went on their merry way.. so they took a month of waiting for this? i got told off by the woman at southern electric because i kept having reschedule the appointment. why didn’t the two previous electrician make this judgement. i didn’t have to be at home for them to look at the box that is ON THE EXTERIOR WALL OF THE HOUSE and conclude wait a minute.. we need to start from the begining. great work folks.. i guess everyone makes mistakes and over looks things, but if this is the conclusion then surely it could have been established earlier and the problem dealth with sooner. having said that.. they seemed like nice people.. i dislike intimidating handymen that like to flaunt their testosterone, their seeming knowledge of how some whatsit-d-bubbly works when in reality they really look as if they have no idea what they’re doing and cannot piece together a coherent sentence.. sort of like what im doing now.. you know what i mean. the nice handymen.. they’re out there somewhere. alrighty more later.. time to send off these damn application forms.
