Book Vouchers & The General Run Around

I use student loans to pay for school. This year my college started allowing book vouchers to be used for loans as well as grants. After I was told this and then went out and paid off several credit cards like a silly nanny. So I've been waiting to get an email from the college telling me that my book vouchers were ready. I waited and waited and since classes start on Monday I knew I needed to act.

I went to the college only to find that the college does not give book vouchers for loans, only for grants.

What kind of shananigans are these people playing? Why can't things ever go smoothly for me?

I got this kick in my teeth on my lunch hour while I stupidly waited 20 mins for nothing for the head Financial Aid counselor to come back from the restroom which actually was her lunch break. (That was fun. Everyone likes to waste time, right.)

So at 5 pm, I left work and ran to the financial aid office, to see if I could catch the elusive counselor. She had already gone for the day (her hours are 9 am - 3 pm, must be nice!) and so I waited in a line of two (I was the second person) for both counselors to help the man with his one issue. (See the picture of incompetence, I'm painting here.) Finally, one of the counselors figured out that it didn't take two brains to deal with his issue especially since she was the mainly silent one who only nodded and repeated what the other counselor said like a parrot. After a loud sigh and a hard look she got the point and stepped back which made the first counselor relax and laugh. (Doesn't every woman want another woman's tits on her back as she leans over a desk? No? Seriously? Why not?)

After she was done staring into space and showing off her chameleon color-changing face skills, she turns to me and asks if she can help me. (Not sure, sweetheart. Can you?) Her co-worker looks up at me, shakes her head, points her index finger at the ceiling in the universal signal for just a moment. Another color change series went over her face and I decided to be nice and said, I'm here for book vouchers. She nodded and turned to a box behind her and looked up my name. Surprisingly she found four for me.

I was ecstatic. Yeah!!! I could now get my books on time for class. Yippee!! However, home skillet was not done with her moron routine. While the first counselor went to the back to get a form for the gentleman ahead of me in line she looked over each voucher and said loudly, "You've got four vouchers. Whoa what's up with that?"

The first counselor merely paused for two seconds before continuing on as she shook her head in disgust. After a FULL MINUTE of flipping again and again looking at the book vouchers she finally asks me how many credit hours I have. I pause because I really don't know. I have some classes with 4 credits while others are 3. She looks up and says you have 16 credit hours? I nod because it sounds good to me. (Rounding up, it works well for everyone.) For summer she asks? What semester is this? Why would I need book vouchers for a semester that is not coming up. Her fellow counselor sighs, almost turns, shrugs, gestures toward the moron helping me and whispers to the guy she's helping. Obviously she does not suffer fools gladly.

Finally she tells me that I have to sign each book voucher. I nod and look on her desk for a pen and she puts her hand out to block my search and say............

What for it...........................

One at a time.

Now this got even me. How stupid do you have to be to realize people only sign with one hand, one page at a time? When did you EVER see different?

Now to be fair, both of these ladies were poor at customer service. Whatever grievance you have with your co-worker you should keep that behind the scenes. They both made themselves look stupid, one because she couldn't hide her emotions and the other because she didn't have enough brain cells to breathe, talk, and think at the same time.

Oh well, I immediately went out and put my book vouchers to use and got all my books but for one course. For that, I'll have to go to a different book store as I'm an online student and I can't buy used books and need to have a CD for one course.

All is irrelevant, as I have my book vouchers and I don't need to spend my own money.

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I'm still sore from that stupid spinning class. I want to like this class so much but it is VERY painful. I can't believe when I take a weight lifting class it's nothing I regret not using more weight but I sit on a bike and move my legs for 20 MINS and I feel like I've been in a car accident.

Jeez, they've got to make that spinning machine much better. I'm listening to a book on tape about how pirates really lived and let me tell you how similar this machine is to the tortures back in the day.

But I digress, I'm planning on going to another spin class tomorrow. I'm not going to go out like a Ninja Warrior Tranny versus the jump hang. No freakin' way. I'm beating this thing if it's the last thing I ever do.