Bad bungle or nod, wink?
“Bad bungle or nod, wink?”
It is standard bureaucratic thinking. I bought a trailer on the 13th. The seller put down the 15th on the title. I went to the tag office on the 14th to pay the tax and get the tag. The clerk said you can’t do that until tomorrow because the date on the title isn’t until tomorrow. I showed her the carbon on the check I wrote and she said, “that doesn’t matter. To get the tag today you must get an affidavit from the seller to change the date.” I realized that reason (no potential for fraud) or argument was hopeless. I have dealt with the head of the office and no amount of logic will suffice.
My experience with government officials at all levels is that they have this clerk-like follow-the-rules mentality. You see this periodically with the ridiculous school suspensions for nibbling a pop tart into a gun. It’s a particular mentality that either government forces on officials or only brainless boobs go into government. I’m not sure which.