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...though I did make it just for this post. If I have to jump through one more hoop for the school district I think I am going to go freaking insane! Like Fiona, who does not put up with this sort of BS, I am rapidly reaching my boiling point. School district needs to join the 21st century and realize that people do not necessarily have land lines anymore and accept cell phone bills as proof of residence. Gah!

So, we just don't have anything in our name that they will take. Since we are living here until we sell our house and we don't have a formal rental agreement with Mom and we are just giving her money to pay the bills instead of putting them in our name, we are having problems. But in order to switch the utilities to our name it would cost a lot of money because this city treats everything like a new connection fee even if all they are doing is changing the names on the paperwork. No, I don't want to shell out $400 to get all the utlities transferred, thank you.

Things they won't take as proof that are in our name:

Car payment statement with our new address on it
Car insurance statement with our new address on it
Health insurance statement with our new address on it
Life insurance statement with our new address on it
Cell phone bill with our new address on it
Hospital emergency room bill with July date of service on it with our new address on it
Bank statement with our new address on it (acct. # crossed out)
Credit card statement with our new address on it (acct. # crossed out)
Propane (which is a freaking utility) bill from our old place but with our new address on it because anyone anywhere can buy propane for a 500 gallon tank apparently (but why would you want to?) so it's not considered a gas bill
Pay stub from Chris's job

Yeah, so I have that many things but they don't count, because I would so go and change my entire life around just to sneak into your school district when I didn't live there. I don't f'ing think so.

Finally they agreed that they would take the car regeistration (the thing you get with your tabs when you pay your yearly license fee), only it still has our old address on it. So I went down to the courthouse to get a new one with the new address. You want to know what I had to do to prove to the county that I lived at my new address? Hmm? TELL THEM. They just typed in the new addy over the old one in the computer and printed me a new one, with a $5 charge. THAT WAS IT. No proof of residence. No driver's license (which still has the old addy even if I did change the info with the state). Nada.

So if I want to sneak my kids into a school district in future, I'll remember that. No, not really, but honestly. These are both government run entitites. Why is it so fricking hard to get into a public school system that by law my kids are mandated to go to if I am not homeschooling them, but I can walk into the seat of county government, which has metal detectors for goodness' sake because they trust no one, and yet they will just take my word for it?

If they don't accept the registration after all this crap when I go down there tomorrow I am going to be seriously pissed off. This...this is just pissed off. When I add the seriously in...I'll be like my mother. The entire school district was afraid of dealing with my mother. I don't want to be her, but I CAN be. School district, you DO NOT WANT THIS.