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Thursday, April 3, 2008

why does the us government make things so hard

Ok, some lovely person had fat fingers or something and typed up Bailey's social security card and Birth Certificate wrong. Her name came printed as Bailey "Mae" her middle name is supposed to be "Rae" simple typo right?! Well try getting it fixed.....i go the first time to the Social Security office with all the correct paper work filled out for a name change and my drivers license. Let me inform you that I go in and (THERE Is NO ONE IN THE PLACE) the girl tells me that I have to get a Number... I take a number and then she says out loud through the window (as I am heading to sit down) Can I help you, I turn, are you talking to me, (of course she's talking to me, there is no one else in there) Why in the name of mike did I have to take a number if I was the only person in there? Anyway besides the point, the girl tells me that I can't change her name because I need official documentation with her name on it, well every bit of official documentation that I have with her name on it has her name wrong....she tells me to go home and look for discharge papers from the hospital there should be something with her full name on it...well i do that and the only thing I can find is her Hep B paper that has her first name and middle initial on it. So I go back today with that and all the other papers that I originally went with...and the office was packed with people (go figure), well my number finally gets called and what does she tell me "this is not official documentation from the hospital...I can't use this"....i said well you better, cause that is all i have. So she gives me this look...you know what i mean by "this look" and types on her computer for a couple minutes. Then she hands me a paper that says she fixed her card it will now read Bailey R Daniels. I ask "are you not going to print her full name on the document, she says "I can't this says her middle name is "R" that is all I can verify" I said her middle name is RAE, can you not simply retype it as RAE, she says NO, not with out seeing it on an official document.....what the hell she is 3 weeks old do you want her credit card statement too!!!!

Ok my point is that 3 weeks ago, I made up this name.....I can't help that someone had fat fingers and typed her name wrong, why do I have to go through hoops to change ONE Fricken letter!!!!!!!!!


have a great day!!!!!!!

2 comments:

Tracy said...

Oh my gosh! I like the new name bailey R. How are you going to get it changed? That is crazy I hate that you had to do all that. Is breastfeeding going any better? I have been so busy lately I have not even got to blog about my week.

Pamela said...

If I weren't still giddy over the crazy tax return we got this year, I'd be cussin' the government out, too.

Call Tom Reynolds' office. He's totally into righting wrongs. This is just the sort of thing that would outrage him.

And then I would have a reason to watch the news, and would tape the segment with you and Bailey Rae and everybody on. Because that is what you do when someone you know is on the news.

And Bailey Mae just sounds grandma. Way to get that taken care of.