After Elsa and I married last year, we spent time sorting out paperwork for her lost passport and wrong name on her birth certificate (its a long story, but I wont go into it here), and this was a VERY frustrating process. It involved going from one office to another, getting xerox copies of this & that, asking Tom and Jerry where to go for this or that, going back to the office, then being told to go to the other office in another town, then pay 50 pesos for that document, then go back to the other town to present this document, then being told, "but you have to get that done in Cebu, not here". Then waiting, waiting, and then being told, but no, you still need ....ARRRGHHHHHH SHUT UP. I'm quite well tempered and mannered, but at times, I was verging on losing it.
