Bureaucracy at it’s best…

For once a story for which I didn’t even have to leave the country…
It was on a rainy September day I decided to finally go to the municipality of the 21st district of Vienna. I had lost an ID that authorizes non-State University students to buy a cheap ticket for the public transport. The Vienna Public Transport calls it “Legitimacy Card” (I wonder who translated that). Anyways, if you lose it, you have to report that to the municipality of your district before they issue a new one. The same day I decided that it was time to wear in my new stiletto boots. When I got to the municipality I was soaking wet. The lost and found office is on the first floor up the wide winding staircase. After telling the lady that I had lost my “legitimacy card” I was sent to the cash register. You have to pay a bit more than €2.- for a loss note in Austria, so don’t lose too much, you might go bankrupt. FYI, the cash register is on the third floor. Again, I had to walk up the wide winding staircase. I paid my dues, turned around to walk back down the wide and winding stairs, when my phone rang. Thinking that as a woman I am able to multitask I picked up the phone while putting the loss note in my bag and while tiptoeing down the staircase on my new stiletto boots. This could only go wrong. And it did! I overlooked a step and slided down till I came to rest in the second floor. No lost & found office there, I tell you that much. How I know? I landed right at the feet of a bridal couple with its entourage of 40 people, including some hot guys in tuxedos waiting to get into the civil registry’s office…