City Hall (Again)

Another awful experience at St. Louis City Hall. I don't know how anyone there keeps their jobs. If I treated my customers at my job like this I would be fired. I talked to two different women in the Traffic Violations Department. The first time I was hung up on. The second time I was shouted at. They each gave me entirely different instructions for how to handle my inquiry. The irony is that I paid a traffic ticket within 30 days (this is July 2008) and the city sent the ticket in to a collection agency (9 months later?!). I never received a notice that it was late (probably because it was paid, duh!), but the inept cogs down there submitted the ticket to a collection agency anyway. I have the canceled check proving I paid it. Yes, once again, City Hall has made me cry.

I am making some promises to myself today:

1. I will never open a business in the City of St. Louis.
2. I will avoid any activity that requires me to have any transactions with City Hall. The only positive experience I ever had at City Hall was obtaining our marriage license. Every other time has been a complete nightmare.