Saturday, October 11, 2008

Getting a Spanish Phone!

You'd think that you could just walk into a shop, pay money and get a local SIM card for your phone.
Well, you'd be wrong.
There's this registration process that needs to take place. You need to produce a government issued ID and the nice gentleman behind the counter needs to enter all that info into his system (takes forever – the nice gentleman takes his job very seriously and is not SUPER SHARP) and then... well then you can pay and get the card.
Now the reason I am telling you all this is that I just happened to look at the output of everything he entered, and thought it's worthwhile sharing.

Let's start with the fact that the kangaroo on my driving license (together with the word AUSTRALIA) didn't make anything click. I am registered as an American.
My date of birth is September 19, 1990. (No idea where that date came from, doesn't appear anywhere on my license).
But the best part is my name. In the Spanish Telecommunication Police records I appear as Mr ALEXANDER PADDINGTON.
I couldn't stop laughing (out loud!) for about 25 minutes...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Alexander Paddington. . . how regal!

JMxx