How does this city function?

This city has got to be THE worst managed city government ever. Those of you who have been to our house or were around when we first bought our house know of the fiasco with the apartment complex behind us. We were told a 2 story apartment complex 100 feet from our property line and ended up with a 4 story apartment complex 44 feet from our property line. And no city officials ever even came out to see what was neighboring this apartment complex... namely our house and 15 others.

Ok, so swimming classes are not as major as putting an apartment complex next to houses, but it is just further evidence of what a screwed up city government we have here. I realized that unlike all the other classes through Parks and Rec, that with swimming classes the registration is an archaic ritual that requires parent to show up, in person, and stand in line for minimum 30 minutes while everything is recorded by hand. And the printer is so slow for the receipt that they offered to MAIL it to me. And if you plan to participate in all four sessions, you must repeat this archaic form of torture FOUR times. Ever heard of a computer?

So I get registered only to have Vanessa discover for me, since she registered about 10 minutes after I did, that they had enrolled me in the wrong day. She convinces them to move me because my registration form actually DOES say Sunday, not Saturday. Eichien doesn't get there for the registration until the next day at 6pm, after being told they are open and accepting registrations until 6:30pm. Wrong, and they tell her that not only can they not register her but that the Sunday class is full, but there *might* be one spot. Come back tomorrow at 1pm.

She goes back at 1pm only to find that they were wrong, registration is at the City Parks and Rec office. So she heads there, annoyed. Gets there to find out that there is plenty or room, in fact, too much room. Two other people registered aside from her, that would be Vanessa and I. They will cancel the class if there aren't at least four people.

Eichien asks how many are in the Saturday class... one person. (They probably still have me listed there.) She asks if they will call that person and ask them to move to Sunday? Nope, they won't do that. Both classes will be cancelled unless someone else registers.

How efficient! Kill both classes instead of combine them. So now we are scrambling to find someone else who might be interested in doing parent tot swimming lessons.