Ihe interminable delays in the renewal of identity documents may have been a matter of concern for several years, although the government may regularly promise to make administrative simplification a priority, each year, with the good weather, people discover, amazed, that this puzzle also applies to them.
They had managed to get a table in the last vegan star, to register their children in the best high school, to find them internships of 3e at the Stade de France, to get vaccination slots at the time when they were reserved for caregivers or an appointment with the best surgeon in the hospitals of Paris, they cannot believe that the issue of passports is not more fast for them.
They remained convinced that there were necessarily accelerated procedures for priority situations – their holidays, for example. The world upside down: they knew the time when the provincials went to the capital to redo a passport in an emergency, they now track on Vitemonpasseport.fr towns of which they were unaware until then of the existence displaying free slots for meet at the town hall.
How do we recognize them?
As long as they weren’t directly involved, they gave inane advice to people in the same situation (“crosses the border by car, no one checks”, “it seems that you have to photoshop an email of an appointment at the town hall and change the date”, “just say you lost it”). They thought explaining that they were flying soon was enough to get them a priority meeting; what to say “but we have already taken the tickets” allowed to go directly above the stack; that the town hall employees probably sorted according to the destinations (“But I have to go to Japan!” »).
When they realized the size of the problem, they started by posting their SOS on social media (“Does anyone have a plan? »). They realized that they knew people in a thousand key positions, but none in the prefecture or town hall. They cited the length of proceedings in Thailand or Malaysia, invoked the passage to all-digital in Estonia.
They said to themselves that it would be faster to go and have their ID renewed there before they remembered that they needed one to get there. Once they got their passport, they started saying sentences starting with: “Actually, just…” and start giving useless advice to those facing the same situation (“the trick is not to go about it in May”).
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