Hi!
Something funny happened to me today and I’m willing to share it with you, I hope you enjoy the story haha!
Like 7 months ago, I moved to a new apartment. You should inform your city about that maximum 1 week after you moved.
Well, I had much trouble last year in my life and absolutely had no time to go there and inform them.
Today, I went to the town hall to change my address and let them fix up my national id with the new address.
First I noticed, at the information point where usually a guy in a wheelchair sat who was always real friendly and helpful, there was 2 women now. They was having some smalltalk, doing no work at all. I stopped in front of the information point as usual and waited. Nothing happened they just kept chatting and ignoring me. I waited like 1 minute next to them just separated by a glass wall. Hm. Okay, they didn’t like to help me it seemed. So I just took a waiting ticket number and sat down. My number came up, I went to the info point again and asked where that room is the information display showed for my ticket number. Slowly one of the womans turned to me, looked at me like I’m stupid and just said “there” pointing in some direction. Moved around again and continued their smalltalk. How helpful!!! What ever I found the room then and there was some woman. Oh gosh. Not that I don’t like woman but I could already feel theres something in the air. I was really friendly just to mention that here.
Walked in and said “Hello”, “I wanted to change my address on the national id”.
She asked if I already informed the city about my move to a new apartment.
I said: “No, need to do that too now.”
She said I should’ve done that before.
Me: “Yeah, I know I was so busy last year.”
She said angry that it is an infringement and I should’ve done that max 1 week after moving.
I told her again that I way really busy last year, even told her a bit about why, that I traveled a lot and such. She didn’t care.
Somehow, she then didn’t believe me that I moved there. And told me I should come back with my rent contract for proof. Even mentioned that usually this is not required and it is just me who needs to do that now. Wtf.
Her voice got more and more angry and her killing look towards me.
So I said really friendly “Don’t flame me, I just wanted some informations, now I know it, thank you, It’s no problem I come back with the required papers.”
I left the room, said thank you again and ciao.
Went all the way back home, got my papers, went back to the town hall.
Nobody there, the 2 woman chatting behind the info point, gone.
Okay, they must have break now. I took a waiting number again. It popped up on the display real fast.
So I went in again, to the office of that woman. She was gone.
I walked back slowly, looked in some of the offices, they was all empty.
Huh, bad timing?
Then I noticed the first office there was some guy inside.
I opened the door slowly and said “excuse me?”
“Are you waiting number 40?”
He smiled and said “I’m number one, haha”
I laughed, “yeah right”. (He was in office 1)
He than asked how he could help me.
I told him that I moved apartment and wanted to inform city and change national id and sat down after giving him my id.
He said “Okay” asked me where I live now and since when.
I told him the street + number and the date that’s shown on my rent contract. I also told him I have it with me for proof. He didn’t care.
He just said “I gonna print it out wait a moment”
Entered some stuff on his computer and printed a paper, he showed me the paper and told me to make sure all details are correct.
They was correct so I signed it, he took the paper again, made a copy and printed something again. He then took my national id, prepared a stamp, glued a new address sticker on it and stamped it with the city’s stamp for verification.
He gave me the letter he just copied, I got the original, he said “for confirmation”.
Gave my national id back and said “Okay, I wish you something”
I said “thank you and bye” had a bright smile on my face and went home again.
When I was home I just noticed how crazy that was.
It took like 1 minute with him to get it done. The woman took 5 minutes just to flame on me.
He didn’t mention anything about an infringement, nothing I needed to pay. He just changed it and all was fine.
How insane is that?
I already thought about leaving this city just because of the crazy people working in administration. But that guy gave me some faith again.
Sorry for my bad english, please correct all bad spellings to help me learn better english. Our education system doesn’t work so I need to teach everything myself.
jambear 5 years ago.
