I don’t know if this is true or not, but I can understand the frustration it depicts…..
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!!!!!!
SHIT!I apologize, I’m really pissed off this morning. Between you an’ me, I’ve had enough of this bullshit! You send the application to my house, then you ask me for my fuckin’ address. What is going on? You have a gang of Neanderthal assholes 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 ass on a sandy beach. And would someone please tell me, why would you give a shit 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 fuckin’ copy of my birth certificate, to the tune of $60. Would it be so complicated to have all the services i n the same spot to assist in t he 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 fuckin’ place like chickens with our heads cut off, then find some asshole to confirm that it’s really me on the goddamn picture – you know, the one where we’re not allowed to smile?! (fuckin’ 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 yingyang. However, 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 !
Sincerely,
You Sure In The Hell Should Know Who.
Thanks Joe P
That is epic. He has a point…Radio Shack never forgets you. Give your password to a Visa or Mastercard rep on the phone and they know everything about you. I bought a car from a dealer back in ’99 and still get junk mail from him almost a decade later.
Any business you have to conduct with a government is like walking thru thick mud. From getting a passport to getting a driver license to getting a replacement Soc. Sec. card. From getting a copy of birth certificate to asking a question of the IRS. (Ask the same question 4 times of 4 different people, you get 5 or 6 different answers.) I’ve spent 6 1/2 months of fruitless phone calls to illiterate gov’t lackeys and almost $500 in legal fees trying to clear up an error the court made in the records of a routine divorce.
I cannot believe that some people want to turn over our health care system to these knuckle dragging unibrowed bureaucrats who’s one and only job qualification seems to be cashing their taxpayer-provided paycheck every week.
Have any of you EVER talked to the computer-science people who run government operations???
I have.
It’s a miracle we even get our tax refunds back AT ALL…..
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They don’t ask you your DOB or address because they don’t know. They ask to see if you do. If you do, you might be who you claim. If you don’t, you clearly aren’t.
Jesus, you people are fucking stupid.
Goober:
That might just be The Dumbest Comment I’ve ever read. You’ve earned your name. Wear it with pride.
amen.. that radio shack inference was priceless!!!!!
Since you brought this up… Why do so many stores, like Toys-R-Us, need my zip code before I can check out? I usually humor them and give it since it’s not personal, but who cares where I came from to buy a toy for my kid? Am I going to get busted for not going to the nearest store or something?
And another thing… I can’t believe so many people go to Radio Shack. Is that where they always want your phone number? I can’t remember. I stopped going there years ago when they sold me a dead, unable-to-charge, worthless cordless phone battery and refused to give me a refund. And even that time was a rare moment for me to go there. The only place worse is Best Buy.
Best Buys SUX!
Stores want your zipcode so they know where their customers come from and what quantities of products specific locations should buy… it greatly helps them to put stores closer to where the customers are and to stock them with what those customers want. Just as an example… a toy store probably wouldn’t seem like a good fit in a zipcode of only retirement communities in Florida, but all those folks buy stuff for all their grandspawn.