Sometimes writing about it makes you feel better…
Ok – so the ‘laptop’ arrived today… but hey wouldn’t you know it… its the wrong one… What the hell is going on????!!!! It is a refurbished dog. Its probably a decent machine but compared to what I paid money for its not even close.
When will this nonsense end!?
I was down to take the kid’s part at our team meeting tonight, but Danelle is filling in for me. The way I feel right now I am worried I might scare the kids a bit and after last time that wouldn’t be so good… And given that we are looking at biblical characters and I was thinking of Steven it might not go well at all!…
As I mentioned previously I can be a fiesty bugger when riled and I don’t give up easily so I am currently in the process of ‘fixing’ the problem (again).
If anyone thinks its funny to ask me ‘how my laptop is’ I might come out swinging so watch out 🙂 To be honest I am finding it very difficult to see the funny side of it at this point!
Then a speeding fine came in…
But I had already paid it… so why send it again?…
So… I look closer and read it again. What’s that?… I am fined for driving without a license. I go to my wallet and look at my license which expired in June. What?!
It turns out that at the time of my license renewal I was sent a form asking if I wanted to keep my bus/truck license. Given that I don’t drive many trucks and buses these days I let it slide. However on that same form was a piece of fine print that said if I didn’t send them written confirmation then the whole thing would expire. (I didn’t read the fine print…)
So I rang them to sort it out. Of course the licensing people sent me to the police who sent me to the licensing people who sent me to the… you get the idea.
Technically I can’t drive now because I don’t have a license.
To get a license I must first fax a copy of my written decision not to renew my truck license to the traffic people and then go to the licensing centre to renew it.
We don’t have a fax.
So theoretically I can’t drive… until I fax the letter… and then I need Danelle to drive me to the licensing centre to do the rest of it.
And I am still being fined $100.00 for it all. Nobody is willing to rescind the fine so if I want to fight it I have to go to court. I reckon that’ll cost me more than $100.00, but then they were probably banking on that weren’t they?…
Am I happy?
Funnily enough writing it down makes it all sound like one great big comedy! I think I’ll laugh about it one day…
Update: just ‘bullied’ my way to a full refund on the laptop. Ech… I hate to deal with people aggressively but some folks just don’t seem to respond to polite people like me…