[Jokes4u] Fwd: Passports 2007

[Stephen Bailey]

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>Subject: Fw: Passports 2007

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>Dear Mr. Minister,

>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 TV cable from them back in 1997,

>and yet, the Federal Government is still asking me where I was

>born and on what date?

>

>For crying out loud, do you guys do this by hand?  My birth

>date, you have on my social insurance card, on all the

>income tax forms I've filed for the past 30 years, my health

>insurance card, my driver's  licence, on the last eight bloody

>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, Mr. Minister.  I'm really ticked off this

>morning. Between you an' me, I've had enough!  You send the

>application to my house, then you ask me for my freakin'

>address.  What is going on?  You have a gang of Neanderthals

>workin' there?!  Look at my damn picture.  Do I look like Ben

>Laden?  I don't want to dig up Yasser Araft, for crying out

>loud. I just want to go and park my butt on a sandy beach.

>And would someone please tell me, why would you care 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 bloody 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 easy! You'd rather have us running all

>over the place like  chickens with our heads cut off, then find

>some bozo to confirm that it's really me on the stupid picture -

>you know, the one where we're not allowed to smile?!  Hey, you know

>why we can't smile?  We're ticked off!