SWG Tales

So I was interrupted from my busy day of cruising the SWGtales boards by the mailman today. He had 2 pieces of certified mail from the City of Chicago. I signed for em and opened them up. The were duplicate copies of the same notice...

My dad's old company car was apparantly impounded by the City of Chicago because police found illegal drugs in it. Apparantly they didn't get the memo that we sold that car to a Lexus dealer several months ago when we traded it in for my dad's NEW company car.

Gotta love the system. Not only did they send the notice to the wrong person, they sent it twice. It's like when I got two copies of the same letter telling me I was underqualified to work in the Social Security office.

I wonder if my taxes help pay for stuff like this.

you're just upset that your dad's a coke-head...

That's what I told him. When he got back from lunch, I yelled at him, "I can't believe you would do something like this! What kind of an example are you setting for me?"

He was totally clueless. It was fun.

Hah ha ha!

Although I'm not sure if that beats the time my Grandfather called me asking if I had driven his car recently into the City of Chicago. I hadn't driven his car in like 6 months, and I had never taken it to Chicago.

Turns out they parking ticketed someone and somehow assigned it to my grandfather's car, which I think I can safely say has NEVER set tire in Chicago proper.

Since he's a retired grade-school principal, I think he was on the side of Chicago, because, you know, you can trust large corrupt mafia-laden governments, but not the word of your own grandson...

X'an Shin wrote:Hah ha ha!

Although I'm not sure if that beats the time my Grandfather called me asking if I had driven his car recently into the City of Chicago. I hadn't driven his car in like 6 months, and I had never taken it to Chicago.

Turns out they parking ticketed someone and somehow assigned it to my grandfather's car, which I think I can safely say has NEVER set tire in Chicago proper.

Since he's a retired grade-school principal, I think he was on the side of Chicago, because, you know, you can trust large corrupt mafia-laden governments, but not the word of your own grandson...

What did they do? Just pull random letters and numbers out of a meter maid's cap and string together your grand pappy's license plate? That is pretty random. At least this time they got someone who at least owned the car in question at one time or another.

But I don't know if that beats being told that you are underqualified to answer phones for the Social Security office. Apparantly having a degree in a social science, having worked in an experimental psych lab answering phones and explaining information that the callers didn't understand, and working for 6 years in a predominantly spanish speaking environment is "underqualified" to...what was it they do there again? Oh yeah...answer phone calles and explain information that the callers don't understand.

Twice.

In the same day. With multiple mailings.

Krusshyk wrote:But I don't know if that beats being told that you are underqualified to answer phones for the Social Security office. Apparantly having a degree in a social science, having worked in an experimental psych lab answering phones and explaining information that the callers didn't understand, and working for 6 years in a predominantly spanish speaking environment is "underqualified" to...what was it they do there again? Oh yeah...answer phone calles and explain information that the callers don't understand. Twice. In the same day. With multiple mailings.

Oh hell no, you win.

But think of that as a blessing, that you DIDN'T get the job there.

X'an Shin wrote:

Krusshyk wrote:But I don't know if that beats being told that you are underqualified to answer phones for the Social Security office. Apparantly having a degree in a social science, having worked in an experimental psych lab answering phones and explaining information that the callers didn't understand, and working for 6 years in a predominantly spanish speaking environment is "underqualified" to...what was it they do there again? Oh yeah...answer phone calles and explain information that the callers don't understand. Twice. In the same day. With multiple mailings.

Oh hell no, you win.

But think of that as a blessing, that you DIDN'T get the job there.

Yeah! you might wind up posting everything twice!

Oh its not just Chicago, IL that's famous for this little mix-ups. Seems Kentucky is just as bad.

For several years, on and off, a good friend of mine was automatically having his paycheck garnished to pay child support to woman and her child in Kentucky. Problem is its not his child and he never met either the woman or her son in his life. In fact if the child was really his he would of had to be 8 years old when he was born. Needless to say the real father had the same name as my friend Jeff and somehow the state of Kentucky didn't know that.

So on several occassions he called and demanded they fix the error and refund every penny they took from his check. These little fixes took several months to fix before he would see his money back. What makes it worse is they continued to repeat the mistake down the line.

Needless to say legal action had to be taken against the State of Kentucky. He was ready to just say hell with it and go down to Kentucky to claim his child. Hell if he's going to pay for the kid he might as well spend time with him.