Watch out. I'm irritable as well as irritated.

OH MY GREAT AND GLORIOUS FUDGE RIPPLE GOODNESS!

I am so angry at our government right at this moment. This has nothing to do with who is in office at the moment. This has nothing to do with anyone currently alive, as a matter of fact.

WHO IN THE WORLD CAME UP WITH THE RULES FOR THE CENSUS?

Has anyone else had as much trouble as I have? I don't think so. And all because I'm... single!

I was on board with the census. Filled it out with reasonable alacrity and even made sure to ask the nice lady who sat at the front of the grocery store under the VERY NICE (and VERY EXPENSIVE, I"m sure) any questions I had. This was before the deadline.

Didn't matter. For some reason, they "didn't get" my census form. So someone came by to visit. I'm never home at the right time so I called and left a message for the lady. She called me back but I wasn't at my phone so I called her back and left my work number. She called me at work and I took the 5 minutes to answer the same questions verbally.

That was a month after the deadline.

Today... today they called again. I had to answer a TON of questions to verify that no one else was living with me. I'm sure that I was flagged because I'm single and I'm not paying any rent. I verified that Gramma was being counted with my aunt and uncle and that my parents weren't counting me.

This is the reason I don't like being an adult. Don't ever let anyone tell you that single people aren't singled out by our government. If I thought complaining to them about the money they're wasting on me because they don't think I'm COMPETENT to answer the questions correctly, I would. She even offered me an address but I doubt they care about my gripe.

Grrrr...

I'm still pissed off.

Watch out. I'm irritable as well as irritated.

OH MY GREAT AND GLORIOUS FUDGE RIPPLE GOODNESS!

I am so angry at our government right at this moment. This has nothing to do with who is in office at the moment. This has nothing to do with anyone currently alive, as a matter of fact.

WHO IN THE WORLD CAME UP WITH THE RULES FOR THE CENSUS?

Has anyone else had as much trouble as I have? I don't think so. And all because I'm... single!

I was on board with the census. Filled it out with reasonable alacrity and even made sure to ask the nice lady who sat at the front of the grocery store under the VERY NICE (and VERY EXPENSIVE, I"m sure) any questions I had. This was before the deadline.

Didn't matter. For some reason, they "didn't get" my census form. So someone came by to visit. I'm never home at the right time so I called and left a message for the lady. She called me back but I wasn't at my phone so I called her back and left my work number. She called me at work and I took the 5 minutes to answer the same questions verbally.

That was a month after the deadline.

Today... today they called again. I had to answer a TON of questions to verify that no one else was living with me. I'm sure that I was flagged because I'm single and I'm not paying any rent. I verified that Gramma was being counted with my aunt and uncle and that my parents weren't counting me.

This is the reason I don't like being an adult. Don't ever let anyone tell you that single people aren't singled out by our government. If I thought complaining to them about the money they're wasting on me because they don't think I'm COMPETENT to answer the questions correctly, I would. She even offered me an address but I doubt they care about my gripe.

Grrrr...

I'm still pissed off.