Posted: Jun 25, 2008, 12:22 AM CST
Dear Sir:
I'm in the process of renewing my passport, and still
cannot believe this.
How is it that Radio Shack has my address and telephone
number and knows that I bought a t.v. cable from them
back in 1997, and yet, the Federal Government is still
asking me where I was born and on what date.
For Christ sakes, do you guys do this by hand?
My birth date you have on my social security card, and
it is on all the income tax forms I've filed for the past
30 years. It is on my health insurance card, my driver's
license, on the last eight goddamn passports I've had,
on all those stupid customs declaration forms I've had
to fill out before being allowed off the planes over the
last 30 years, and all those insufferable census forms
that are done at election times.
Would somebody please take note, once and for all,
that my mother's name is Maryanne, my father's name
is Robert and I'd be absolutely astounded if that ever
changed between now and when I die!!!!!!
I apologize. I'm really pissed off this morning. Between
you an' me, I've had enough of this BS! You send the
application to my house, then you ask me for my
@#$%&@<$' address. What is going on?
You have a gang of Neanderthals workin' there! Look
at my damn picture. Do I look like Bin Laden? I don't
want to dig up Yasser Arafat, for shit sakes. I just want
to go and park my butt on a sandy beach. And would
someone please tell me, why would you give a damn
whether I plan on visiting a farm in the next 15 days?
If I ever got the urge to do something weird to a chicken
or a goat, believe you me, I'd sure as hell not want to
tell anyone!
Well, I have to go now, 'cause I have to go to the other
end of the city and get another @#$%&@<$' copy of my
birth certificate, to the tune of $60. Would it be so
complicated to have all the services in the same spot to
assist in the issuance of a new passport the same day??
Nooooo, that'd be too damn easy and maybe makes sense.
You'd rather have us running all over the @#$%&@<$'
place like chickens with our heads cut off, then find some
asshole to confirm that it's really me on the picture -- you
know, the one where we're not allowed to smile?!
(@#$%&@<$' morons). Hey, you know why we can't smile?
We're totally pissed off!
Signed,
An Irate @#$% @<$ Citizen.
P.S. Remember what I said above about the picture and
getting someone to confirm that it's me? Well, my family
has been in this country since 1776. I have served in the
military for something over 30 years and have had security
clearances up the ying yang.
Now I have to get someone 'important' to verify who I am --
you know, someone like my doctor WHO WAS BORN AND
RAISED IN COMMUNIST @#$%&@<$ CHINA...
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