The story about the court sounds like what goes on the The Philippines. Every time you go to some government office it's no shorts and no sandals. Everyone there wears shorts and sandals almost everywhere. They stand at the door and stop you from coming in. I did notice however that many of the female employees were wearing sandals. There is often a little store across the street that sells used pants socks and shoes.
Then when you getin, you go to whatever window you need to go to they always require a certain number of photo copies of whatever you are submitting. There is always, very conveniently, someone on the other side of the room with a copy machine doing a brisk business for 3 peos a copy.
Then you are sent to a "lawyer" to have the form that you filled out refilled out "correctly" by a lawyer. So you go to the lawyer who fills out the form exactly the same way that you did, but you pay him 300 pesos and bring the form back. Then you are sent to another window where you pay a few hundred pesos for another form that you bring back to the first window.
It's one of the main reasons that I moved back here. I hope that our government doesn't turn to that way of doing business.
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