ENRICO
ITALIAN ABSURDITIES
Dear editor,
Each absurd thing has its flavor, those of our "beautiful country" have a particular one, a home-grown flavor, like "doc" Italian food. Someone stole my wallet, which contained Fausto's registration document.: Fausto is the name of my light motorcycle, an old "prewar" Ciao Piaggio model. Then I went to traffic control authority, where, I figured as a good ingenuous citizen and in good faith, I would simply ask for a duplicate of the registration document. In fact this is what logic: should suggest: if someone steels you the registration document of something, you just need to ask competent authorities for another document. And instead it isn't so, this would be too straightforward, too simple, too of good sense. The traffic office answered me that I had to submit my motorcycle to a technical test, to get another registration document. I made this test only two months before at an authorized garage (400.000 liras.), and the test had a validity of two years. As I complained about the new test, they repeated me this was the only way to have another registration document. It is like to say: Someone stole your driving license? No problem, you have to take your driving examination again"; or "Someone stole the registration document of your old car? You have to buy a new car"; or "Someone stole your taxpayer's code number? You have to present your income-tax return again". In conclusion, besides the damage, you have to suffer "the joke" by the institutions. I have nevertheless to thank "holy spirits", because Fausto, luckily, passed the test and after trying five times, I finally got my new registration document. I love to describe to public opinion the troubles of a poor Italian citizen. I also ask myself whether it is worth doing. Is a current of thought necessary to change things? A referendum? Should people "disturb" Parliament members? Will a political party take the charge? Will a Minister, full of engagements, take care of a trifle like this? In conclusion, , is there someone, among you readers, who is simply able to decide that when a document is stolen, the competent authority gives a copy, and that's all? I wish, on the contrary, to thank public employees. Yes, those unpopular to everyone, those who, sometimes, must concretely apply absurd rules, maybe established in hyperspace world. I wish to thank them, because, through the kindness of some of them, I could overcome this trouble, relatively uninjured.
Dear editor,
Each absurd thing has its flavor, those of our "beautiful country" have a particular one, a home-grown flavor, like "doc" Italian food. Someone stole my wallet, which contained Fausto's registration document.: Fausto is the name of my light motorcycle, an old "prewar" Ciao Piaggio model. Then I went to traffic control authority, where, I figured as a good ingenuous citizen and in good faith, I would simply ask for a duplicate of the registration document. In fact this is what logic: should suggest: if someone steels you the registration document of something, you just need to ask competent authorities for another document. And instead it isn't so, this would be too straightforward, too simple, too of good sense. The traffic office answered me that I had to submit my motorcycle to a technical test, to get another registration document. I made this test only two months before at an authorized garage (400.000 liras.), and the test had a validity of two years. As I complained about the new test, they repeated me this was the only way to have another registration document. It is like to say: Someone stole your driving license? No problem, you have to take your driving examination again"; or "Someone stole the registration document of your old car? You have to buy a new car"; or "Someone stole your taxpayer's code number? You have to present your income-tax return again". In conclusion, besides the damage, you have to suffer "the joke" by the institutions. I have nevertheless to thank "holy spirits", because Fausto, luckily, passed the test and after trying five times, I finally got my new registration document. I love to describe to public opinion the troubles of a poor Italian citizen. I also ask myself whether it is worth doing. Is a current of thought necessary to change things? A referendum? Should people "disturb" Parliament members? Will a political party take the charge? Will a Minister, full of engagements, take care of a trifle like this? In conclusion, , is there someone, among you readers, who is simply able to decide that when a document is stolen, the competent authority gives a copy, and that's all? I wish, on the contrary, to thank public employees. Yes, those unpopular to everyone, those who, sometimes, must concretely apply absurd rules, maybe established in hyperspace world. I wish to thank them, because, through the kindness of some of them, I could overcome this trouble, relatively uninjured.