This one had me in tears, and I hope it doesn't offend anybody as it isn't my intention:)
This apparently is an actual letter received by the UK Passport Office ...
"Dear Sirs,
I'm in the process of renewing my Passport, and still cannot believe this. How is it that Sky Television has my address and telephone number and knows that I bought a bleeding satallite dish from them back in 1977, and yet the Government is still asking me where I was bloody born and on what date.
For Christ sakes, do you guys do this by hand? My birth date you have on my pension book, and it is on all the income tax forms I've filed for the past 40 years. It is on my National Health card, my driving licence, my car insurance, and on the last 8 damn passports I've had.
On all these stupid custom declaration forms I've had to fill out before being allowed off the plane over the last 30 years, and all those insufferable census forms.
Would somebody please take note, once and for all, that my morther's name is Mary Anne, my father's name is Robert, and I'd be absolutely astounded if that ever changed between now and when I die!!!
I apologise, I'm really pi**ed off this morning. You send the application to my house, then you ask me for my bleeding address!!!!
What is going on? Do you have a gang of Neanderthal tosspots working there? Look at my damn picture. Do I look like Bin Laden? I don't want to dig up Yasser Arafat, for shit sake, I just want to go and park my arse on some sandy beach somewhere. and would somebody please tell me, why would you give a shit whether I plan on visiting a farm in the next 15 days? If I ever got the urge to do something weird to a chicken or a goat, believe you me, you'd be the last bloody people I'd want to tell!
Well, I have to go now 'cause I have to go to the other end of the poxy city to get another copy of m birth certifiate, to the tune of £30. Would it be so complicated to have all the services in the same spot to assist in the issue of a new passport the same day?
Noooooo, that'd be too damn easy and maybe make sense. You'd rather have us running all over the place like chickens with our heads cut off, than have to find some arsehole to confirm it's really me on the damn picture - you know, the one where were not allowed to smile?! (bureaucratic, bleeding morons) Hey, do you know why we couldn't smile if we wanted to? Because were totally pi**ed off!!
signed
An Irate Citizen
ps Remember what I said above about the picture and getting someone to confirm that it's me? Well, my family has been in this country since 1776 ..... I have served in the Military for something over 30 years and have had full security clearance over 25 of those years enabling me to undertake highly secretive missions all over the world.
However, I have to get someone 'important' to verify who I am - you know, someone like my doctor - WHO WAS BORN AND BLOODY RAISED IN PAKISTAN"