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My parents are fantastic. They offered to buy me another car so that I can just work on paying off the first one. I secretly assumed all along that they would eventually offer if I didn't act too "poor me" about things - devastated but endearingly optimistic always did work as a way to get them on side! So yeah, that's a big weight gone. Now I can replace the stuff that was in it, too, rather than worry about saving money.
Replacement driver licences cost $31.10, and they'll make you wait in line for 45 minutes to apply for one. When you get to the front of the queue, the customer service girl will be chewing gum loudly and obnoxiously. That's one of my pet peeves; I hate when I go into a shop and the person at the counter is chewing. Chewing is gross. Also, when I called on Friday to see if the licence place was open on Saturday, nobody answered the first three times, and on the fourth try, the woman just said "no", then hung up. Not even "no, we're only open business days". We sure do know how to treat customers in New Zealand!
Saturday work was crazy. Like, every single bank system was down for several hours that day - EFTPOS, credit cards, online banking, phone banking, our internal systems. Cranky people like to call and abuse us when that happens. I love when they call us "you people": "You people declined my card", "You people locked me out of online banking". Like I'm intrinsically involved with the bank and personally responsible for every problem a person might have. It makes me so happy to tell people on days like that that I can't do anything for them because there's a "scheduled outage". It would be more fun to tell them what's really going on, though - that the system's crashed majorly, our managers are panicking and nobody knows when everything will be fixed. Not to mention that everyone's balances are entirely incorrect. Pandemonium, you might say.
Foo Fighters on Friday! I would be going completely insane if I didn't have that to look forward to. I briefly considered selling my ticket when I saw them going for $300 on TradeMe last week and I needed money, but I realised that would be pretty much selling my entire reason for living! The only dumb thing is that I'm going with Abe and Tara, and they're wanting to meet up with Tara's boyfriend and this other boy I don't have any love for. I may ditch them. I'm sure I'll run into better company there...
Replacement driver licences cost $31.10, and they'll make you wait in line for 45 minutes to apply for one. When you get to the front of the queue, the customer service girl will be chewing gum loudly and obnoxiously. That's one of my pet peeves; I hate when I go into a shop and the person at the counter is chewing. Chewing is gross. Also, when I called on Friday to see if the licence place was open on Saturday, nobody answered the first three times, and on the fourth try, the woman just said "no", then hung up. Not even "no, we're only open business days". We sure do know how to treat customers in New Zealand!
Saturday work was crazy. Like, every single bank system was down for several hours that day - EFTPOS, credit cards, online banking, phone banking, our internal systems. Cranky people like to call and abuse us when that happens. I love when they call us "you people": "You people declined my card", "You people locked me out of online banking". Like I'm intrinsically involved with the bank and personally responsible for every problem a person might have. It makes me so happy to tell people on days like that that I can't do anything for them because there's a "scheduled outage". It would be more fun to tell them what's really going on, though - that the system's crashed majorly, our managers are panicking and nobody knows when everything will be fixed. Not to mention that everyone's balances are entirely incorrect. Pandemonium, you might say.
Foo Fighters on Friday! I would be going completely insane if I didn't have that to look forward to. I briefly considered selling my ticket when I saw them going for $300 on TradeMe last week and I needed money, but I realised that would be pretty much selling my entire reason for living! The only dumb thing is that I'm going with Abe and Tara, and they're wanting to meet up with Tara's boyfriend and this other boy I don't have any love for. I may ditch them. I'm sure I'll run into better company there...