Passports, Planes and General Pinochet.

Why do businesses do it? They give you automated forms, where you have to fill in boxes so that a computer can read them, rather than having humans do it. A great idea, ruined by the insistance of having everything in small boxes! The worst case example of this is the dreaded passport form, in which you have to write in font size 4 to fit anything into the boxes they supply. The catch? If you write outside of the box, you're screwed. I wonder how many holidays are ruined each year because of this stupid insistance on having such small boxes? Here's an idea for Allan Leighton, former Leeds United fuckwit and now messing up our Royal Mail, make the boxes bigger, to the size of average writing and do the nation a favour, you prick.

Second rant of the afternoon, is aimed at travel agents. Gone are the days where you could nip down to your local Lunn Poly and tell them where you wanted to go, at the price advertised in the window and you flew a week later! Oh no, now you have the basic price. And then you have transfers from the airport. And then fuel charges and charges for collecting your ticket on the day! Why do they not just include this in the price, and so we know how much we are paying before reading the small print? You don't go into your local electrical retailer and ask to buy a washing machine at £299, to find out you have to pay an extra £10 if you want it to come with a plug, and £50 if you want someone to fetch it out from the warehouse and put it in your car do they? Of course not, you intend them to be in a price because they are central to the purchase, and are compulsary! But with travels agents, despite having to pay the fuel charges and the other aforementioned "debts" they don't put it into the price until you start to pay!

As for general pinochet, well i need a P (the letter, not the action) and so decided to throw in a political stance. I hope the picture now makes perfect sense..