A man just called and wanted to speak to one of the guys who work here. When I asked what his name was, he told me, but when I asked where he was calling from, he gave me the name of the city he was in??? Why did he think that that would be of any importance to me? Doesn't the question: may I ask where you're calling from, kind of imply that it's the company or organization that you're interested in, not the location?
If I have learned one think during my time at this embassy, it is that people are generally stupid. I don't know how many people I've had calling here asking for the Swedish embassy in Sweden. Quite a few Swedish men who've wanted to know how to bring their Thai girlfriends back to Sweden. A Swedish guy in Germany who thought that Berlin was too far for him to go to renew his passport, so could I please tell him what he could do instead? And just on Friday, a woman called asking how she could go about having some Russian friends over. I told her that she has to contact the Russian Embassy instead, but she said that she doesn't speak Russian and that the line was busy all the time. So she just randomly picked another embassy, or what? I finally gave her the number to the Swedish embassy in Moscow, because obviously they're the ones who will be issuing the visa. But then she wanted to know if we could find out who this girl is that is coming to visit, because apparently she wanted the woman to send her money for the visa. I was a little taken aback and asked if she didn't know the person, to which she replied that no she didn't, it was some woman that her son had met on the internet. Oh the humanity!
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