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hummingwolf) wrote2005-12-03 12:31 pm
hummingwolf) wrote2005-12-03 12:31 pm
Grr. Argh.
Because I don't mention this often enough: I really, really hate bureaucracy.
If anyone has been wondering what to get me for Christmas, the answer is food*.
This post has been brought to you by the people who repeatedly tell me there is no need to come into their office until I get a letter, then send me a letter saying I get no more food stamps because I didn't go into their office.**
I wonder what movies the dep't of social services is showing in their lobby this December.
* Decent medical care would also be a lovely gift, but food is much easier to find.***
** And no, based on past experience, this was not unexpected (that's why I'd been calling the office in the first place). Yet this stuff still manages to be simultaneously infuriating and discouraging after all these years.
*** Other good gifts would be electricity and phone service. Yeah. Those are generally good things.****
**** Footnotes are addictive.
If anyone has been wondering what to get me for Christmas, the answer is food*.
This post has been brought to you by the people who repeatedly tell me there is no need to come into their office until I get a letter, then send me a letter saying I get no more food stamps because I didn't go into their office.**
I wonder what movies the dep't of social services is showing in their lobby this December.
* Decent medical care would also be a lovely gift, but food is much easier to find.***
** And no, based on past experience, this was not unexpected (that's why I'd been calling the office in the first place). Yet this stuff still manages to be simultaneously infuriating and discouraging after all these years.
*** Other good gifts would be electricity and phone service. Yeah. Those are generally good things.****
**** Footnotes are addictive.
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Yep, I've seen at least one of those. Actually, I've seen at least one that told me I had to respond well before I got the letter. Most vexing, that.
As C.S. Lewis said when explaining the reasoning behind his depictions of demons in The Screwtape Letters and why those demons were unlike the bat-winged monsters of so many old paintings: "I like bats much better than bureaucrats."