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Beauracracy

NovaNova
edited 2011-08-01 03:05:30 in Meatspace
If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.
Specifically, the Road Traffic Authority or whatever.

I have a car, see- my Nan bought a new one, so she sold me her old one for a few hundred. Still in working condition, so awesome.

Last Wednesday, I went in to have the registration transferred over to my name. They told me that a birth certificate, a Student ID card and a signed keycard were not enough ID.

Fair enough. I went in and got myself a Healthcare card on Friday. Has my name and signature on it.

I took it in to the RTA earlier today.

They told me "Who is this [Name Redacted] Lowe?"

I showed the my birth certificate. My name is listed as [X] Milera, as it's my father's name. My mother, [X] Lowe, is also listed there.

But, apparently, having official documentation, pus a birth certificate stating both names, is not enough proof of your identity to own a car.

I now have to go in to the government offices here and change my goddamned name to Milera to suit this. In order to own a car, I must now be  known by a different name.

Comments

  • Central AvenueCentral Avenue
    Wow.

    ...This makes me want to punch people, and I'm not even the one inconvenienced by it.
  • BobBob
    edited 2011-08-01 03:17:57
    Wow.

    ...This makes me want to punch people, and I'm not even the one inconvenienced by it.

    Same here.

    If it's any consolation, Milera is a really pretty name.
  • Central AvenueCentral Avenue
    edited 2011-08-01 03:18:34
    Also now I'm wondering why no one has ever given me crap for going by my father's last name, when my parents weren't married until several months after I was born.

    (Though I would much prefer to go by my mother's last name, to be honest)
  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.
    Milera's a good name, but... it doesn't feel like mine.
  • Central AvenueCentral Avenue
    None of my names feel like mine.

    My last name is my father's last name, and I rather dislike him, and my first name...it's a boy's name. Bluh.
  • BobBob
    ^^So, there's absolutely no way to get around this without needing to change your name?

    ^Any name can be unisex if you put your mind to it. Hell, Ashley used to be an exclusively male name.

    [damn I sound stupid when I'm tired]
  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.
    I could always find alternate identification.

    Like, say, a Learner's Permit.

    That I need a car to get.

    -_-
  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.
    @ CA: Hey, better than my name. There's a reason I'm angling to get it totally replaced in a few years.
  • Central AvenueCentral Avenue
    You need a car to get a learner's permit where you live? That's weird...

    And I dunno, there's something about my name...I just don't like it. It never felt like "my" name...and yet, when I try to choose a name that does feel like my name...it feels "fake".

    But I should probably stop being whiny-off-her-meds-kid for now.
  • BobBob
    Getting stuck with a name you don't want does seem like a catch-22. :/

    Also, seriously, this is what you're like off your meds? Maybe I'm just used to "lack of meds = full-blown crazy", but you seem pretty much the same (which isn't to say that you're whiny, because you're not, and I should seriously stop typing right now).
  • TheConductorTheConductor
    That's why I enjoy having a nickname that could also be a real name.
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