So, I was at the Kansai Airport, here in Japan, last night to pick my brother in law up. He comes out and we walk to the car park and I ask him whether he has gotten his International License or not. He starts laughing and starts telling me the story.
He went to the RTO for his license, but couldn't get it. The reason for this was....they didn't have the right stationery to issue the license on. My bro-in-law asked them what the alternative would be and they told him that he would have to wait till they get the stationery. This was on Friday and he was leaving Monday early morning, so he came to Japan without an International License. Now, in the meantime, he asked his office staff to go and see what could be done. When we got home, my bro-in-law checked his email to see that his staff did go to ask for the license, but they said the stationery would only be available on the 5th of August. And, he leaves to go back to Bombay on the 8th, so basically there's no point in even having them courier it to us.
I was quite shocked to hear this. I mean stuff like this should not be an issue at all in the first place. Stationery for license at an RTO not available for close to a week? To me that is simply unacceptable... Anyhow, hopefully, this was just the one odd case and things like this don't occur again...
Kimibabe... |