atrocious waiting time
well well well, i wouldn’t really want to bitch about govt dept or anything of that matter, but seriously, i was doing my conversion of driving license yesterday at ssdc. sure enough, i know it was a saturday and i could have anticipated a lot of people there. but anyway, the moment i reached the traffic police counters for amk branch in ssdc, i was shocked. i swear there was at least a hundred people gathered around there all waiting for their numbers to be called up.
instantly, i went to get a queue number. my number was F114. the current number being served is F052. lol, ok so how long will an estimate of 50 people in front of me going to take?
right, so my number is F114 at 11:48am. the counter closes at 1230pm or so it says on the operating hours. also, it was written on the glass panel that an estimated waiting time is around 3.5 hours. i thought to myself, ok that could be the worst case scenario and it probably might take some time but just not as long. so we waited.
i was hoping that some fellows preferably in the regions of 80′s and 90′s queue numbers could give up andcome again another day. but it seems that every number is being attended to. yep you guessed it right. the freaking notice of the waiting time indeed took us 3.5 hours to get to our turn.
when the whole thing was done, the waiting area was left with only a handful of people. the time? it was 3:16pm. geez.
so anyway, i’m officially able to drive in singapore now. *evil laughter*
