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Tilt and Tilt Relief

Since getting back to Cayman I’ve been doing a lot of moving sort of stuff.  Doing a fair amount of shopping for the essentials (toilet paper) etc.  Another thing I’ve been dealing with is getting my work permit renewed.  The way it works in Cayman is you get a six month temporary work permit to start and then you’re eligible for a full permit (1 year at a time in most cases).  Everyone has to start off with the temporary permit.  So my permit is up in August and there are a few things I needed to do to get it renewed.

First, we went to the lawyer’s offices and filled out paperwork which we’ve filled out before.  It’s the same form as the one we filled out to get the temporary permit.  I’m not sure why it needs to be filled out again but whatever, I could deal with that.  The next thing was to go get a blood test for STDs.  They don’t allow people with STDs to work here apparently.  I proved I was STD-free back in February but I guess they are concerned that I picked one up since then.  Fair enough, I got that done yesterday.  Neither one is really that tilt-worthy.

The next task on the list was to get a police report showing that I haven’t gotten into trouble since I’ve been here.  This was not easy to get done.  First of all, the George Town police station has like… negative parking spaces.  It’s a total shitshow with people double-parked everywhere.  Yesterday we went there and somehow found a parking spot but then the line was out the door so we decided to go back this morning.  It turns out there’s never parking space there.  I tried double-parking today but they told me that I had to move my car … despite the fact that I wasn’t blocking anybody and there was tons of room for people to get by my car.  I guess everyone else can double park but I can’t.  So I ask the policeman where I should put the car and he just shrugged.  Very helpful.  I was totally on uber tilt at that point.  I mean, they make it an application requirement that work permit holders need this police report.  And they put it in a place where there’s zero parking and one person helping a big crowd of people?  WTF is that about?

So I move my car next door to the Dept of Licensing parking lot.  As I’m walking back over to get back in line at the police station, the security guard in the parking lot of the licensing office asks me if I’m going to the police station or the Dept of Licensing.  I’m not going to lie so I told him the truth.  He told me that I couldn’t park there.  It’s hard for me to describe the tilt at that point.  I told him there was no parking whatsoever at the police station.  He still said I had to move my car.  I asked where I should move it to and he just said that this parking lot is only for the Dept of Licensing.  I saw a sign behind him on the fence that a parking violation was a $75 Cayman (about $90 USD) fine.  I just said, fine, I’ll pay the fine.  Then he proceeded to give me a speech about how money is important and how I shouldn’t throw it away.  After he finished I just looked at him and was like, Can I go?  And he motioned for me to go so I walked over to the police station and paid my fee to get my blank rap sheet.  The best part is that you have to come back the next day to get it (and deal with parking all over again).

The tilt from the work permit stuff has been compounded by internet connection tilt over the last few days.  For some reason they decided to put 30 apartments in my building on one 10mb internet connection.  Unfortunately, I taught some of my co-workers how to use BitTorrent.  Suffice it to say that the internet speeds have been utterly unbearable.  As of about 30 minutes ago, I finally have my own internet connection (after three trips to the “Digicel” store) and it’s glorious.  I’m going to revel in this great moment for a few.  It’s amazing how having fast internet will relieve tilt.

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