Wednesday, December 28, 2011

When were you the angriest? - 18 December

I don't feel like I've had very many angry moments this year.  But, I've definitely been pretty steamed when I've had to deal with residency issues.  At one point, I needed extra passport pages because I had to hurry up and run out of El Salvador to Mexico for a last-minute visa renewal when my lawyer didn't get me my residency documents in time to make the trip to the office ... I called the US Embassy's Passport Emergency number, since I knew it was after normal public attention hours (that means it was after 11:30am), and they told me I needed to come in the following day because they wouldn't see me.  I gave the girl an earful (in Spanish, mind you) about this number being an emergency number and that my case was an emergency because I didn't know what would happen if I zipped off to Mexico without the appropriate number of spaces for the 6 stamps I needed ... They did see me, but not until I insisted and the girl spoke to her supervisor, and then told me I'd have to pay $80.  Just thinking about that day gives me a headache.  Definitely not one of my finer moments.

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