Seriously Man!!

So I'm pretty heated today, just came back from 7 hours of trynuh do a simple errand. 7 freaken hours for something that should only take 2. 

Iight so like I needa get my passport renewed and shet before it expires so setted on a date to take a day leave off work. Woke up early, got ready, took a picture, grabbed some breakfast then headed up to Capital Hill. Now everyone down here on the island knows how far that place is...

Anyways, this trip was planned clean. Called the passport office down here to see if they still open since recently the whole CNMI Government shut down. They said yeh, gave us business hours and said they'll be open till THURSDAY. So we went up there and it was 10am, this is where my day got all EF'd UP.

We find the building halfly shut, the aircons all on, the shutter door that cover's the main entrance partly open. Of course u'd think right? Oh someones in, getting the office ready and shet. So we knock, no one answers, we call and no one answers. So I told my mom, maybe they're out for break?? She was like, "Isn't it too early for break?" 

So we wait a while, practically an hour. Some other people comes by to see wassup. We decided to go to the Treasury Office which was close by to ask if they know anything about the Passport Office and why it was still close. There was one lady in there workin, stated she was an admin, has no idea why the office still be close or how much the passport fee was. Another lady, a customer, was there tried to help us. She was like "I think they be part of the Attorney General's Office, you can check if they know what's going on." So we go take a drive there. There were some guys outside who asked if we needed help and told them what was going on, they were like "bet it's shut down too cause all the other offices here are, but the AG's is still open" So I was like asking if we could just ask anyone at the AG since they said the Passport Office was under them. I met this other dude from there and told him our problem. We just really wanted to know WTF was going in. I told  him how I can't seem to understand why THE UNITED STATES PASSPORT OFFICE  is part of the shut down cause isn't it a federal office?? He had no idea too -.-

So like my dad called up during all of this and told us to just go pay for the passport fee at the Court House. So we drove all the way down to Susupe from Capital Hill -.- YEH BALLIE GAS PAR! lol

There was already a notice up on their bulletin board about passport fees and procedures -.- 

It kindly stated to have the Passport Office look into our documents and have them sign it or whatever before we came to pay the fees. We also found out how much it was which is 100+ depending on your age. So I told my mom, we couldn't even do anything there at the Court House even if we knew the fees. So we just decided to ask the clerk if she knew anything about why the passport office was closed, she was like "I don't know why they're closed, they should be under Federal, but you could check them again later."

X.X

It was practically lunch time, so we went ahead and bought some stuff for the car and grabbed some lunch. KEPT CALLING THE DAMN PASSPORT OFFICE and this is how it went:

RING- NO ANSWER

BUSY

RING-VOICEMAIL

RING-NO ANSWER

BUSY

RING-VOICEMAIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THERE IS NO OTHER FREAKEN WAY FOR THAT DAMN LINE TO BE BUSY!

So we thought, hey maybe who ever is working there be comin half of the day. So since they open again at 1, we decided to head back up -.-

When we got there we saw a car outside the office, so I was like Yes, they're there! 

But guess again...... 

Though a car was there and both shutter doors were partly open, and the aircon is still on, NO ONE WAS ANSWERING THE DAMN DOOR!

2 groups of people came by moments later for the same reason, but there was no use though, they had the same idea in mind. So my mom wanted to visit the Treasury Office again just to see if who ever should be in the Passport Office is chillen there. We met up with a new clerk, someone who clearly knows what she's doing compared to the first one and asked her what was up with the Passport Office. She was like "Is there a car outside, are the doors open?" and we described how the whole building looked. YES THERE'S A CAR OUTSIDE, BOTH SHUTTER DOORS ARE OPEN AND THE AIRCONS ARE ON BUT THERE IS NO ONE ANSWERING THE DOOR. So she was like "Hmm I don't know, maybe they'll come back in a few. You guys should call them, what number did you call?" 

WHAT NUMBER DID I CALL????????? Shouldn't this chick know the damn number????!!!!!!

So she called them said no one's answering and said sorry, then she said why not just wait for them outside? -.- Reeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalllllllllllllly?

Now I come from a family where we don't just back down without figuring out WTF is going on, and it seemed like the other family that was there was thinking the same way too. So we headed back to the office. 6 of us plus some kids making it look like a scene outside the Passport Office walking around the area checking if there was any sign of anyone inside. I mean there was a government car outside, there should be someone freaking in there. One mistake this person did was leave her ID in the car. Already aggravated, I was trying to figure out how to contact the person who uses the ride. I saw her name and where she worked, the Attorney General's Office. 

Now I didn't mention previously, but while we were there, they told us that the Passport Office is not part of the AG Office. So what in the world was an AG office employee doing there. So I called the AG Office and ask if this person was in or if they know why she was at the Passport Office. The dude said he didn't know if she was in, he knew she was a local government employee so she shouldn't even be at work. He also didn't know why they Passport Office was close. Out of everyone today I found this dude to be the most helpful.

Now while I was on the phone with this guy from AG, some dude came by with a Frontier, so I thought FINALLY WHO EVER IS WORKING HERE IS HERE. But then he rolled down his windows asked us what we were waiting for and said "Yahll should just leave, this place is shut down too." So we were like "Well that's not what they said yesterday" then he goes, "Well no ones answering the door and that's really how they do it. They can't take the gov cars home so they just leave it here." REALLY? YOU THINK WE DAT STUPID? OK MAYBE THE CAR THING COULD BE A LIL BELIEVABLE BUT LEAVING THE AC ON? THE WHOLE DAY WHILE THE GOV IS IN DEBT WITH THE POWER SUPPLIER. 

So this dude left after almost everyone who was there told him that they'll wait a lil more and see. He came back moments later with some people in a Kia Sedona. So then we were all like YES THEY ARE FINALLY HERE!!!

GUESS THE FUK AGAIN!

These peeps only came to ask us if the office was close, told us it was part of the shut down and I guess they thought one of us in the group could not recognize her. OFCOURSE WE WANT ANSWERS so one of the chicks from the other family was saying, I know her, she works here and they started busting out questions. Then the guy came to try to cut everyone off the conversation and another lady came out and started closing the shutters and was like sorry we're close. While no one confronted this chick my mom urge me to talk to her so I did.

I went "Mam, so yah'll really close?" and she was like "Yes I'm sorry"

Then I told how we called yesterday and whoever answered told us that they'd still stay open till Thursday. She then told me that they only said that cause they were guessing, that yesterday they did a friendly labor. They decided to go to work for free yesterday to help the customers until their boss told them the same day that they have to be part of the shut down. Then I told her, why the US PASSPORT OFFICE, ISN'T THIS A FEDERAL OFFICE? and she was like I'm sorry but you can take your complaint to the Governor. Then I asked, ok so for those who needs to renew their passport, where could we go. SHE TOLD ME TO GO TO GUAM.  GUAM.....

SO YOU'RE TELLING ME TO PAY 200+ TO GET A 100+ PASSPORT RENEWED

YOU'RE TELLING ME TO PAY 300+ TO RENEW A DAMN BOOK

awesome -.-

Later, the chick who owned the government car from the AG office finally got out had her head down and all she could say was sorry we're close while waving her hands for us to get lost O.O
THE FUK DUDE?!

Now I respect the 'working w/o no pay to help us thing', I really do. I sympathize 4 tha people  who lost their jobs in the government offices. I know what they goin' through and this really is the wrong time to loose jobs. 

BUT DO THIS SHET RIGHT:

-HAVE AN EXPLANATION FOR WHY AN OFFICE THAT COULD BE EASILY DESCRIBED AS A FEDERAL UNITED STATES OFFICE BE CLOSED TOO

-HAVE A COMPLETE DAMN LIST OF EVERY OFFICE AFFECTED IN THE NEWSPAPER

-DISCONNECT YAHLL PHONE LINES OR HAVE YAHLL VOICE MAIL STATING THAT YAHLL PART OF THE SHUT DOWN

-HAVE A NOTE UP SAYING YAHLL CLOSE!

-DON'T MAKE IT SOUND LIKE YAHLL DAMN SURE YOULL BE OPEN THE NEXT DAY.

DONT FUKN:

-HIDE IN THE DAMN BUILDING

-IGNORE EVERY FUKN PHONE CALL

-TALK TO US LIKE WE STUPID

-TALK TO US LIKE IT'S OUR FAULT OR SOMETHING

I have personally experienced the secrecy and trickery of the local government in one day.

This complaint is not to sound selfish, it is simply A WAKE UP CALL! 

HAVE SOME COMMON SENSE!

WE ARE ALL AFFECTED HERE, the economy ain't straight yet but the least we can do is TO NOT ADD ANY MORE BULLSHIT TO THE PILE OF SHIT WE ALREADY GOT!

DEUCES!
-Nix