My wife received her U.S. passport yesterday. After 5-1/2 years, all the paperwork is done and over. I feel a tear running down my cheek.
No more forms to print using up my cartridge ink, no more complaining about PDF non-fillable forms and sore fingers from tightly-clutched pens (black ink, of course), no more checks to write to the government for exhorbitant fees on simplistic services, no more flooding inch-thick envelopes with a myriad of postage stamps. No more waiting for appointments that may, or may not, come -- and when they finally do, are months away.
What am I to do with all this spare time? I feel like the retired person who still wants to get up in the morning and go to the office.
Oh well, I guess there's always income taxes once a year.
:~)
