but only because the prompt was lambs and sheep, but I only had cows and calves to hand.
It is so nice having some actual daylight when I come home from work I had perhaps more daylight than I deserved because I left work early to renew my driver's license, but the DMV ordeal only took two hours. I'm not quite sure why the DMV is such a challenging place. I went for overkill, bringing every document of any importance that I could think of. I had carefully filled out the renewal application, and dug out my birth certificate, passport, mortgage statement, other bills with our address, voter's registration card, social security card, w-2 form plus an assortment of other items, including books and magazines for the predictably long wait. The welcome lady said that all she wanted was my current license. I then got off to a bad start with her because I cracked a (lame) joke about all the of the other items I had brought for her. Just the license, she repeated. Our interchange somehow went from bad to worse, I'm not quite sure how. Neither of us lost our civilized politeness, even when I was questioning why exactly the DMV wanted me to open up the W-2 form, which made no sense since it was supposed to function as a proof of address and the address was clearly visible on the outside. But her frosty yet civilized manners did almost break she found out that I had an already filled-out application ... and here she had been filling out a new one for me. Now really. Hadn't she said "just the current license please." I guess I don't envy her the job of dealing with irate and exasperated citizens since that job consists to a large extent of turning people away who don't have the proper documents. Speaking of documents, I had better get all these precious items out of my purse and stash them back into the safety of the bedroom.
I think I'll sign off with that since I am not coming up with any way to loop back to ersatz or lambs or calves.
I enjoy your use of the word ersatz! Not commonly used but I find it in word games all the time. It is often difficult to keep ones temper in times like this! And you always think of the best retort some hours later!
Awesome substitution for the word of the day! Yep - baby calves work just as well as lambs - both have four legs, and both are ruminants. (BTW - I loved your use of the word Ersatz)
And your story made me laugh out loud! Same thing goes north of your border. I swear government bureaucrats are the same the world over!
And your story made me laugh out loud! Same thing goes north of your border. I swear government bureaucrats are the same the world over!