Adventures in Frustration

Dear Government Agencies,

YOU SUCK.

Yesterday I went to the Police Station on 4th Street near L'enfant Plaza to see if they had my purse. Number one, the Detective who called me was SUPPOSED to call me back to confirm that it wasn't just a "brown leather bag," but was my "large deep maroon burgandy leather-like purse with a gold interior and silver rings." Men. Which he never did. Fine. I came in anyway. I was not in the incident record, nor was anything like it listed. I was told to call Det. Wachowski again and let him know I had been there. I stormed off. Now I'm sorry. But I have been robbed of $800 worth of my most special stuff in the past 6 months and what have those lovely boys in blue done for me? "Oh, sorry. That sucks. We usually never find that stuff, you know?" Um, NO. Not good enough. The taxes I now pay are paying their paychecks, so I expect a little SERVICE. Like, oh, maybe taking more care to LOOK for my possessions which may have been dumped, or maybe fingerprinting the bag they found and getting the guy who stole it. OR EVEN taking better descriptive notes on the bag than just "brown leather." Anyone can tell you that purses are of the widest variety. Fuck that.

Then I walked to the Folger to do paperwork which no one ever offered to help me get to so MD would stop witholding my entire paycheck. Thanks.

I returned to Crystal City for work and when I got off the metro and put my farecard in the turnstile it took it... and returned it saying "Out of Service" So, ok. I used the next stile. But it charged me twice. In NO MOOD I told the station manager what it had done. He pretended to look at it and said "it couldn't have done that." "But it did," I said. "It couldn't have." pause. "But it did." pause. "But it couldn't have." Fuck this, "Give me my card, I'm telling you that it did and you're obviously not listening to me so thanks for nothing goodbye."

I hate hate hate incompetence in people I'm supposed to rely on for my life. Fuck the police for not caring. Fuck WMATA for fucking my life. and Fuck anybody who gets in my way in this mood.