Do you think this truck is big enough?
I love the distortion from the camera lens because it reminds me of how easy it is to see things incorrectly and think our perceptions represent reality. Here is a more accurate picture:
The truck is still plenty big.
What happened is we got a call from the Dodge place Monday saying they had found a truck that was almost exactly what we wanted, so we didn’t have to wait six to ten weeks. It still needed a spray-in bed liner for rust protection and a sliding window for hauling long objects, but we went down Tuesday and paid for it so they could make the modifications.
The thing that surprised us was having to spend about an hour filling out paperwork. We had already spent a half hour on red tape before we were sent to this fellow to complete the transaction. It took another half hour to go through his pile. He was cheerful, friendly and efficient, but we still had to sign every single piece of paper.
I am so glad I don’t have his job. 😀
What about you? How patient are you with paperwork? Have you had to endure any recently?
Thankfully my life is fairly free of paperwork at the moment.
I can put up with it when I can see the point – usually there isn’t one and I find this incredibly annoying.
(I just heard on the News that there was going to be a major attack in the U.S. that had been followed UP TO 9/11. But everybody was on vacation then so nothing was done.)
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Maybe all the paperwork is so nothing will slip through the cracks. But think of all the time & expense for getting all this done & filed.
They’ve just changed the patient law to eliminate lots of paperwork done before the patient is actually filed.
I don’t like paperwork that much. We endured it last when we got our new car to replace the old one that was totaled on Dec. 26. Same model as old one, just newer by 6 years, so that we would be able to tow it when we travel. It’s sitting right next to the camper where we are currently camped near Colorado Springs.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8185675@N07/
I looked at your new pictures on flickr (above). Pictures of each scene were so continuous that it was almost like watching a movie. HaHaaaa LOL
I don’t know about you but do the paperwork-sheets look larger, certainly larger than the A4 which I think in American terms is slightly different to what it is here…
Every 3mths I get approx 5 pages of forms I have to go through – checking boxes of yes or no…sometimes if I check “no” it will say skip 3 sections to xyz ##….then I have to make appt for all those pages to be checked against whatever…they type things into the database and then they rubber stamp it all and go away until the next time!!
Everytime the letter that comes with it asks me a whole series of things before I even attempt the forms and at the end of the above…I get a letter in the post telling me what I should do…but saying I can apply again.
I can’t do the “should” so every so often I reapply again…over and over and over!
Once a year, they go mad and they send me even more forms – the “annual review” and I have to go and get things stamped by other people…and usually just after that – my 3mths are up and I’m back again with all the forms!!
crazy but hey it gives the gov’t employee something to dooooooooooooo!
Evan,
I’m happy for you!
bikehikebabe,
That’s good that they’re simplifying the paper work in one area. Apparently Homeland Security is proliferating paperwork with little or no benefit. Before we even got to the fellow with the file of papers one guy went off to check our credit rating, if I understood him correctly. (We aren’t financing the truck.) He said it was so the government could be sure we weren’t terrorists and wouldn’t use the car as a bomb.
Mike,
So the pile of paperwork is standard for buying any car, not dealer-dependent?
bikehikebabe,
Yes, I do have a lot of them on Flickr now. It’s a good way for Kaitlin to see what the site looks like as the work progresses. Thanks for being interested too. 🙂
Cathy,
Yes, it sounds as if you have more than your share of paperwork to endure. Good luck!
I’m sure there is some variation in the amount of paperwork for new vehicles from state to state, but it’s still way more than should be necessary, in my mind.
Cathy, I heard that New Zealand is so beautiful that people might flock there to live. So it’s hard to get to move there. Maybe that makes for all that paperwork.
bhb: I just looked at the online info about buying/selling/ownership of said car/vehicle and it doesn’t look at that complicated unless you do not check who actually “owns” the car…i.e. if you inherit some debt you could find that someone reprocesses it for payment of others debt.
http://www.cab.org.nz/Pages/home.aspx
this is the citizens advice bureau..ok you don’t have to be a citizen to use it and you can go to your local one, phone them, look online and get answers to all sorts of things…have things signed by Justice of Peace, even be a volunteer…
I was a volunteer for 8yrs in my local one and just this last week had a semi-renunion morning tea. Interesting to catch with some of them 🙂
Mike,
I agree!
BHB and Cathy,
When we went to Australia and New Zealand years ago we had to show that we already had reservations to leave. As I recall we also had to prove that we had so many dollars in assets to prove that we weren’t indigent. Even then it struck me as a sensible approach to avoid overpopulation.
jean, bhb: I think you still need to show that your can support yourself when travelling here, but I don’t know the full details because “I’m not coming here, eh” 🙂
That truck looks awesome. Congratulations on getting it ahead of schedule.
I have recently been through the process of rationalising my father’s affairs and experienced all the frustrations of paper work and toing and froing between banks and accountants and explaining everything to a hard-of-hearing old man who thinks that everything should happen yesterday!
Rummuser,
The paperwork is bad enough without having to deal with someone impatient and hard of hearing! You have my sympathy.
In fact, we still don’t have the truck. The modifications were supposed to be done yesterday and we planned to go down to pick it up. But before we left a fellow phoned and said they wouldn’t be ready until the evening so we could pick it up then or wait until Monday. Monday is bad for us, so we asked why not today (Sunday)? We assumed the sales department would be open even if the service department was closed. The fellow said he would check and phone me back. So he phoned back and said we could pick it up today, the service department would bring it over to sales. I suggested we phone first to make sure before we drove all the way down, and he said it wasn’t necessary. He guaranteed it would be there. Yeah, sure. It’s a long tip so we phoned anyway. The truck may or may not be ready and over at sales. What the fellow didn’t tell us is the sales department is closed on Sunday. As usual it pays to be paranoid. And to have a sense of humor.
Viva paranoia!
Rummuser,
Amen to that!