Last April 3, my parents and I went to the Department of Foreign Affairs to renew our passports. If you don’t know it yet, they now require personal appearance so you cannot ask your travel agent to renew your passport for you. For senior citizens. It was quite an experience since it was my first time to go to the DFA office and I really hate government offices.
My mom told me we were leaving at 4am so I didn’t sleep anymore since I go to sleep around that time. I tried to kill time by surfing the internet, reading anything from movie reviews to liporexall reviews. When I got downstairs at exactly 4am, my mom and dad were still sleeping so I just took a nap at the living room for awhile while waiting for them. We left around 4:30 and my dad decided to take the Quiapo route and there was a traffic jam already that early, maybe because it was a Friday, Quiapo church day. We were stuck there for about 30 minutes and arrived at DFA about 5:30 am already. And this was our situation… we were in a hurry because we were already late and a lot of people were already there. My dad walked too fast so I didn’t have time to go to the comfort room anymore and I needed to pee because they pointed all the aircon towards me when we were in the car and I was sleeping. Turned out I wouldn’t have time to go because I was on a different from my parents since they’re both senior citizens. Sigh. Good thing I was able to control my bladder or else… I was only able to go to the restroom after I was done with everything, a couple of hours later. Haha!
So, all the people were seated already, including me, and waiting for the DFA employees to open the counters. They asked everyone to stand and fall in line again just so they could stamp numbers on our form. That alone took about half an hour and my gosh, some people really know to cheat. Grabe silang sumingit. They really found a way to cut through the lines, it was really irritating. And then one DFA personnel kept announcing on the mike the procedures and he was using this old karaoke machine, you know, the big black rectangular box and he irritated me more. Haha! After the stamping, we sat back on the chairs and moved and waited till we get to the counter. From there, the other procedures were fast and easy enough, it was just funny and their system was so jurassic.
And then there was this guy. When someone is staring at me, I stare back. That’s how I am. I do that because I’m curious why. So, I stared back at the guy. And he stared every time we crossed paths and I stared back everytime too. Maybe he got the impression that I like him or something because the next time I saw him, he was whispering to his friend and both of them were staring at me. The nerve! And then one time, were in line again and I passed by his friend and his friend said something to me, I just ignored him and pretended I didn’t hear anything. Haha! And then when I was done, I hurried sneaking on my way back to the car so I wouldn’t cross paths with them. Haha!
I was done around 9:30 am and my parents had to wait for me because they finished early. It wasn’t really bad but the DFA still needs a LOT of improvements.
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