sign & date

Like the Vogons of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, I find myself buried under a pile of paperwork! Society has forms for everything-credit cards, returns, releases, rentals, dental, registrations, and sometimes we come up with forms for silly activities like pie-eating contests. This morning I pulled out a packet for school. The very first page says in bold 20-size font, “THESE FORMS MUST BE COMPLETED AND RETURNED NO LATER THAN JULY 31, 2006 OR YOU WILL FORFEIT YOUR POSITION IN NURSING.” Once you start filling out the forms, they tell you that you need to get other forms and make copies of them. If you don’t have the forms, you need to get an application form so you’ll have the forms requested. This is when I start banging my head against the table wishing I could shred all the papers on my desk.

I do admit that internet forms are easier to fill out, but when push comes to shove, it’s a form, it’ll take time, and it will ask for silly information more than once. However, “Resistance is useless,” and like the Vogons, I better start loving them since there’s no way around them.

About Vogons:
They wouldn’t even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal without orders signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public enquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters.

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