Friday, October 06, 2006

The queue

...... and I thought English lines were long. The queue to hand over my application for a Chinese visa was 3 hours long. Lucky I've had so much practice. If everything goes to plan I pick it up next Tuesday.

Oh and here's an idea why can't we train passport control officers to say "welcome to NZ (or whatever other country)" !!! Really where are the Tourism Ministries in all this? Passport control, your first meeting with a new country, allways cold, often downright intimidating and why? I'm sure they could ask all the same questions with a dissarmingly pleasent manner!

3 Comments:

At 4:03 pm, Blogger Rachel said...

I went to the British Consulate yesterday and I was the only one there except for people who work there. They were all standing around watching a dodgers game!

 
At 12:17 am, Blogger Brassy said...

Don't say it too loud they'll recall some of there staff untill there is a line!

 
At 12:28 am, Blogger Just my opinion said...

In India they would stop for "Tiffin Breaks" at certain times when we would all line up at stations etc.

What made us laugh was that there was a big poster of Ghandi on the wall expelling the virtues of good customer service and they were just shite the entire time!

 

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