I bought a new trailer and headed to the government shopfront to get it registered, clutching all the right forms, all the right documents, and a Visa card raring to go. The friendly chap at the door greeted me with the bad news: “I’m sorry sir, but our systems are down. We can only take cash.” Bugger. “You can come back with cash, or go to our other shopfront at the other end of the city.” I was heading that way for a meeting anyway, so off to the other shopfront I went. This one had a friendly chap, too. “I’m sorry sir, but our systems are down. We can only take cash.” Wait, what? That’s...
Our systems are down
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