Tammi's World

I Give Up

Seriously, there is a reason I don't do things "by the book" in my personal life.

It never works out.

For instance - I bought Lana on December 26, 2006. In preperation of that purchase I had made phone calls and did my due diligence, and still had serious issues. No one listened to me. No one took me serious. Arrggghhhh. To say it was frustrating is a really big understatment.

And the frustration is not over. Like I said, I bought her on 12/26/06. Today is 3/5/07. It's been a while.

The paperwork for my plates have still not been sent to the Illinois DMV. I'm now getting ready to run out my second paper plate. And the only reason I got the second one was because I raised a stink that could be SMELT all the way down in Florida.

Seems the paperwork gets done in a different office than the one I bought it in. Seems there's been some kind of "disconnect". Seems the Manager I dealt with has been transferred and the new folks really don't give a shit about me.

You see, I'm in Illinois. They are in Tampa. What kind of threat can I be?

Well they are about to find out. Last month, when I was raising all sorts of hell, I finally just called and asked who to send the bills to. Who was going to pay for the tickets, and the towing and fines when they booted my car at the airport because of bad plates? Who could I have the officer call for an explaination when I get pulled over because of bad plates?

It took another week and a half, but eventually I got another paper plate. But I should never have had to make that call.

And now I gotta do it again......

I cannot begin to tell you how angry I am. Now, I'll be the first person to admit, I'm not always so good about renewing my plates. Hell, when I moved up here my Florida plates had been expired by 5 months before I got them switched over to Illinois. And that's not the worst I'd been.

But now? Now I drive almost 200 miles a day. In some pretty bad traffic and weather conditions. I'm trying to do the right thing. And as always, when I do it blows up in my face.

So I've got to make a call again today. I've got to make sure they understand that this is UNACCEPTABLE. But the secret is, they hold the cards. If I piss them off too much, they can really make my life miserable. So it's a delicate dance, and I'm not really in the mood for it today.

Sometimes I wish I had a personal secretary that dealt with all this crap. It'd make life soooo much easier.

Posted by Tammi at March 5, 2007 05:34 AM | TrackBack