Another trip in vain
Sep. 9th, 2024 08:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wiseheart... and some much-needed relief.
So, I made another trip to the government office to have Mum's regular medicine support redirected to postal delivery. This time with an official empowerment and half a dozen earlier documents I thought might be needed. The clerk studied the documents, and then told me that this particular senior citizen support doesn't belong to their jurisdiction but that of the metropolitan government. When I asked why didn't they tell me that last time, she said I hadn't told them what sort of support I wanted to redirect. I could have asked how was I supposed to know that there were different versions belonging to different authorities, but that wouldn't have taken me anywhere, and besides, I was too angry by then.
It is maddening that in today's computerized world two official authorities can't cooperate in such simple things. Why on Earth couldn't they send each other a message about what's needed and let the other one deal with it? Now I'll have to go to the district commune, which is a nightmare, just to have that small sum of money (the equivalent of about 350 Euros a year) delivered by postal service instead of being transferred to Mum's bank account that no longer exists.
According to previous experience that will take me half a day... if I'm very, very lucky.
To add insult to injury, when I left the government office at 9am, the torrent rain promised for 3pm suddenly arrived. I did have an umbrella with me, but by the time I reached the tram stop (roughly 100 metres from the government office) I was soaked to my very skin. My sandals gave funny, squelching noises, and when I got home I had to scrub mud from my toenails. I kid you not!
Despite the rain, I didn't give up my original plan of going to the craft supply discounter and did some comfort shopping, spending way more money than originally intended. Now I have chenille wires in the most lovely, striped hues, and lots of wooden beads that will serve as heads and hands of various handmade puppets. I think I've covered my needs for years in that area but hell, I needed something to cheer me up! Being the fool that I am, I also managed to buy a craft punch that I already had, but I'll gift that one on my friend Evie to play with her oldest grandson.
At least the weather had a major change today. Temperatures dropped by some 15 degrees, and we can breathe again. For the first time in two months, tonight I'll be able to use a proper pillow. It is still raining, mildly and quietly, which will be a true blessing for the fields and gardens. It was long overdue, and it's great that we have regular rain instead of quick downpours. The soil needs to be soaked.
So, I made another trip to the government office to have Mum's regular medicine support redirected to postal delivery. This time with an official empowerment and half a dozen earlier documents I thought might be needed. The clerk studied the documents, and then told me that this particular senior citizen support doesn't belong to their jurisdiction but that of the metropolitan government. When I asked why didn't they tell me that last time, she said I hadn't told them what sort of support I wanted to redirect. I could have asked how was I supposed to know that there were different versions belonging to different authorities, but that wouldn't have taken me anywhere, and besides, I was too angry by then.
It is maddening that in today's computerized world two official authorities can't cooperate in such simple things. Why on Earth couldn't they send each other a message about what's needed and let the other one deal with it? Now I'll have to go to the district commune, which is a nightmare, just to have that small sum of money (the equivalent of about 350 Euros a year) delivered by postal service instead of being transferred to Mum's bank account that no longer exists.
According to previous experience that will take me half a day... if I'm very, very lucky.
To add insult to injury, when I left the government office at 9am, the torrent rain promised for 3pm suddenly arrived. I did have an umbrella with me, but by the time I reached the tram stop (roughly 100 metres from the government office) I was soaked to my very skin. My sandals gave funny, squelching noises, and when I got home I had to scrub mud from my toenails. I kid you not!
Despite the rain, I didn't give up my original plan of going to the craft supply discounter and did some comfort shopping, spending way more money than originally intended. Now I have chenille wires in the most lovely, striped hues, and lots of wooden beads that will serve as heads and hands of various handmade puppets. I think I've covered my needs for years in that area but hell, I needed something to cheer me up! Being the fool that I am, I also managed to buy a craft punch that I already had, but I'll gift that one on my friend Evie to play with her oldest grandson.
At least the weather had a major change today. Temperatures dropped by some 15 degrees, and we can breathe again. For the first time in two months, tonight I'll be able to use a proper pillow. It is still raining, mildly and quietly, which will be a true blessing for the fields and gardens. It was long overdue, and it's great that we have regular rain instead of quick downpours. The soil needs to be soaked.
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Date: 2024-09-09 07:26 pm (UTC)The temperature has dropped here as well ... that was too fast really!
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Date: 2024-09-10 11:14 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2024-09-09 08:03 pm (UTC)Very good news about the cooler temperature! At least mother nature is being benevolent 🤗
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Date: 2024-09-10 11:16 am (UTC)(Edited because the autocorrect on my iPad is aggressive, not to mention crazy, and works with Hungarian...)
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Date: 2024-09-10 03:15 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2024-09-10 11:16 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2024-09-10 10:09 am (UTC)I hope your Heath-Robinson rain collecting system works well on the balcony. That said, I imagine even having a wet balcony is small price to pay for being able to breathe again.
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Date: 2024-09-10 11:17 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2024-09-10 11:23 am (UTC)The dictionary describes it as "Used to describe a machine that is very cleverly made and is complicated in a silly or humorous way, but has no practical use."
I would challenge that. Nowadays the phrase is more often used to describe a mechanism that is clearly amateur, clever, complicated in a fun way, but also gets the job done.
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Date: 2024-09-10 11:26 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2024-09-10 11:30 am (UTC)Yes! McGyver is the US equivalent.
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Date: 2024-09-10 06:34 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2024-09-10 04:11 pm (UTC)Bureaucracy at its finest!
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Date: 2024-09-10 06:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2024-09-10 08:29 pm (UTC)What good news that you had good, soft, steady rain,
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Date: 2024-09-15 02:47 am (UTC)OMG!!
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Date: 2024-09-24 11:09 pm (UTC)I truly hate dealing with the government, it takes forever to get anything done. Sorry about the rain and your getting soaked.
We weathered another tropical storm here, this one a full blown hurricane. Came through it okay but it left a nightmare in the yard to clean up. Two days ago, we were worried another was coming but the weather pattern changed and as of now, the prediction is it will head toward Florida. Bad news for them, good news for us. Wish it would head out to sea and miss land, but that is not going to happen.