It's been a month since I've sent my passport to NY for extension. If I were there it would have taken an hour to get it back, but just because I was (still am) too busy and too broke (still am) to fly over there I had to mail it and condemned to wait for a month. It's over a month now and I need my passport for my Boston trip at the end of this month. Shall I trust my consulate and wait until the very last minute?
I didn't and I called them today. As a consequence of my bitter experience, I've decided that it is indescribably annoying how NY Turkish Consulate's 1888 call line when addressing an English speaker says "your call will be answered in the order it was received", while Turkish speakers are expected to settle down for "lutfen hatta kaliniz" which basically means "just stay on the line, will you?" Now you may not see a significant difference here but there is! Why don't you tell me, a Turkish speaker, that there is an order, there are people before and after me, so eventually I will be answered, may be so soon, and that may calm me down because I know there IS an order; make me confident rather than leave me with sure I'll stay on the line but how long??? anxiety. Lame.
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