Today I had the lovely opportunity to go to a government office...actually 3 and all in search of the same thing. But that's not the point of this story.
In every office there is a guy sitting behind a desk at the front door. He holds the power, or at least he decides if you get to go in and if you're extra nice he might tell you where to go. We asked the guy behind the desk about the forms we needed and he said 'go upstairs to the first floor'. (Around here, they call what we could call the 2nd floor, the 1st floor and that's ok, I've gotten used to it) We go upstairs to the '1st floor' and there's a gate blocking us from going in, but there are people in the hallway behind the gate. Thinking that, maybe it's just closed and we have to open it, my friend kind of shakes it and it doesn't open. We looked at each other just a little confused as to how we're supposed to get to the 1st floor when it's locked. Just then, the desk guy pops his head in and says 'not here, go up to the 1st floor' with this look on his face like we were stupid. Of course...b/c that's how things work around here. If you close the door to the 1st floor, the 2nd one automatically becomes the 1st. So...we went up to the 3rd/1st floor and didn't get the form we needed. Apparently they keep those forms in a different building now. Oh well, maybe they got too confused and decided to put the forms in a 1 story building!!!
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