Identity Crisis.....

Friday 4th April 2008

I’m going through a bit of an identity crisis......

It all began last month, when I decided to apply to the DVLA in Swansea, for a photographic driving licence. I was dragged kicking and screaming (ok, a slight exaggeration), to the photo booth at our local Sainsburys. To have a photo taken, to send with the application form. Believe me, I cringe at having to do things like that!

Photo ordeal over, I filled in the form and sent it off, with my old driving licence, birth certificate and marriage certificate. I did not enclose a fee, as my postcode has changed, and if any of your address details have changed, you don’t need to pay.......at least that’s how I read it. In fact there’s a box on the form to fill in any change of address details.... which I did.

Yesterday an envelope from Swansea, came through my letterbox. I expected it to be a nice, new, photographic driving licence......but no, it wasn’t. It was a letter, returning an application form, and asking me for £17.50. Enclosed with the letter was a birth and a marriage certificate........problem was, they weren’t mine!!!!

So I found myself standing in the kitchen, with a face I’ve never seen before, looking up at me, from an application form, which wasn't mine.... and birth and marriage certificates belonging to someone called Mandy......

I then began to wonder where my documents have ended up??? Has this Mandy been sent my birth and marriage certificates?????

I immediately phoned the DVLA, and all they seemed interested in, was me sending the documents back (at my own expense), they didn’t seem too concerned as to what has happened to my stuff.

So there you have it, unless I hear any different, I have no driving licence, no birth certificate and no marriage certificate - and as yet - no apology from the DVLA, even though they have my phone number and email address..........

And my friends wonder why I prefer birds to humans......

Bye for now,

Mandy........I mean Eve!!!