Hey all,
I have the pleasure of visiting the Social Security Office this morning to take care of Terry’s Affairs. I have been trying to come here to get help for the last 10 days. Every time I drove there I continued to see a sign on the door saying the office was closed due to not having any power after Hurricane Irma. Now that they are finally open I decided to get up bright and early to go back. Once I got there, I was surprised to find such a long line of people waiting that wrapped around the entire building just to get inside. Now once I finally got into the building, I was told “take a number please” from the Kiosk machine. Now 2 1/2 hours later after patiently waiting, my number gets called. I was excited! However, after going to the customer service window, thinking I would finally get things done, I was only told that this was merely a screening counter and I would need to take a seat again and that my name would eventually be called. Unfortunately they said that there were 45 people ahead of me! Oh my God !!!!….It will probably take another 2 hours before I finally could get to see anyone to hopefully get things accomplished . This was a real test of my patience !! Unfortunately, what I need to do can’t be handled on line or via the phone. So here I sit patiently waiting and waiting and waiting.
Hope you all are having better day than me!
spearfruit 
All good luck to you Gary. Here in Spain, we do also need patience, when we wish to do anything in a public office. We never know, how long the waiting time might be.
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I know…You would think there would be a better way to do things. Oh well !
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Wow! You would think by now almost everything would be able to be done by computer or phone. Have patience and good luck getting it all fixed!
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I need more than luck….I need a stiff drink after all this. It’s an all day affair. Glad I didn’t plan to do a bunch of other things today. Oh well.
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They always seem to be under-staffed. I feel your pain.
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I know….I will just have to wait it out.
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Hi, Hope you managed to get all you paper work done !
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Yes I got things done and was finally out the door at about 2:30 PM. Since I go there at 7:30 AM that morning, I ended up waiting around for 7 hours !!
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One job less !
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I remember those lines from when I got married and had to go through the process to legally become Mrs. XXX . Pain in the butt, but at least they offer chairs, right? I hope you took a good long book …
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NO, but I had my laptop so I wrote this post !!
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That is just crazy!! Hope you get it done today!
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Got it done…Signed, sealed and delivered !! Only took 7 hours to do.
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Oh dear!!! But it’s done. 👍
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Sorry to hear that, but it is such a common occurrence, unfortunately. Good luck, Gary!
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I know…..just such a long day of waiting around. Wish they would allow more to be done on-line as it would make life much easier.
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So true! But did you get something accomplished at the end of it all?
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Sorry Gary – but any day is better than that!!
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Luckily I got thru it !!
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Persistence wins out!!
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I do hope you managed to reach the front and get things sorted without another visit. 🌼🌼🌼
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Yes, fortunately the man that ended up helping me was very pleasant and efficient.
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Oh Gary …. this is a problem the world over, I think. I spent a whole 6 hours at the US Embassy in Paris 2 years ago only to be told I was back to square one. BUT the nice lady did put a note on my file which resulted in me being allowed a year in the country with multiple entries so that my Mummy would not be compromised if she needed help. So one has to count the good fortunes and ignore the frustrations I guess. Bon courage as we say here in France, bon courage mon ami (my quest to get Terry speaking French now passes to you – you know that?) 😊
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Oui oui Osyth. Je suis re’ceptif ‘a l’apprentissaqe du francais. bonne nuit
etes-vous impressionne !
amour Gary.
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Totally impressed and hurrah … when we get you over to France you will be fluent 🙂
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Pense’e d’espoir ! Le temps nous le dira passwz une bonne journe’e
Avec amour, Monsieur Gary
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I certainly hope everything you set out to accomplish there is complete by now!!! Hugs to you Gary!!!
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Got it all done and can now check that task off my things to do list ! Thanks for checking in Blue
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Well look at the bright side: You got to make a new post while waiting! But I do hope you get what you need done in this trip so you don’t have to go back. xoxo
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To my best knowledge, I got everything done on one trip, so it all turned out okay. Gary
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Ugh. Try to stay sane.
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I ended up getting things done without fighting with anyone. The guy that ended up helping me was actually very nice
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What a diabolical, insensitive, nightmare
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I know, but I guess that’s bureaucracy !
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I believe the long lines are conducive to all government offices, no matter where they are. It takes a half a day to just get your driver’s license renewed in Georgia.
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You are so right. I guess there’s nothing we can do if we need to get something done.
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OMW !!! I hate queues, I hate waiting. We deal with a lot of that here. Those are times I realise I have no patience. Hope all got done.
My best is finally the next in line, approach the ‘window’ to be helped and then told, sorry, going on tea break !!!!
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I know. Can be a bit frustrating, but not much you can do. Oh well.
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Oh, no! Patience is a virtue, but it’s might hard to wrangle sometimes. I hope you finally got the assistance you needed.
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Yes, all is good I think?
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🙂
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My goodness you have a lot more patience that I do! LOL
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Not all the time, depends on my mood !
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