Tagged: car
no smoking
No smoking in my car, but if you want some good quality chocolate, I always have a box full of it.
P.S. the photo is made by iPhone and I think the quality is outstanding.
like zombies
Dealing with any Armenian state entity you need to first ask (yourself and the entity) what are the steps you have to pass, be it car registration, apartment registration, anything related to the state involvement. If you don’t know your steps (i.e. your to do list) you are destined to stay in that entity till Christ’s second coming.
Be prepared to witness long lines waiting for their turn and “absent” looks of state servants. Sweat, tears and heart attacks. And, of course, corruption. I don’t only mean bribery for not standing in the line or for solving the problem quickly. But also changing the turns to serve relatives, friends, colleagues first. This is corruption too.
Who is responsible for all this? The Government of Republic of Armenia.
Just recently media reported that the Prime Minister exploded with anger and claimed that nation will soon wait for only 10-20 minutes instead of an hour to register a car. Apparently Mr. Sargsyan doesn’t know that you need to be there for a day (if you’re lucky) or two to register your car. You need to pass numerous rooms, approvals, stay in unorganized medieval lines and smell all the “perfumes” of our drivers. You need to talk to state officials and reveal that they have an IQ and manners of an average Taliban member.
But the worst thing is, you will eventually discover that people standing in line with you deserve to be treated like shit. When you ask these people about the sequence of events, or about steps that they need to pass, about cabinets they need to enter. Nobody knows it. And nobody wants to know. They just come to state entity and wait for instructions where to go and what to do. And whom to pay.
They have no idea about their “to do list” to complete the transaction, the steps to get what they want. They come, prepared to lose as much time as it takes and spend as much money as it takes to complete the transaction. They never question, they never wonder, they never demand.
Like zombies…
love snowy Yerevan
assurances of highest consideration
Dear embassies, foreign and international missions accredited to Armenia that drive cars with red or blue plates.
Thank you for building bridges between our countries.
As you work for piece, democracy, development and progress of our countries, it would be a great help if you could drive your vehicles safely and without violating local traffic rules. I would very much appreciate obeying traffic laws and driving as you would drive in … for example Austria or Singapore.
I know that police of those states treat you as usual drivers and Armenian police never stops you, however it would be just wonderful if you could treat Armenian “hospitality” as a wrong example, rather than a privilege. Our police thinks cars with different plates cause different threat to traffic (I know it’s like thinking that eye illness depends on eye color). Police in Armenia thinks risky situation on the road created by a car with red or blue plate is less likely to develop into a lethal accident. Therefore they think cars with red or blue plates that create risky situations on our roads are not that guilty.
Please do not subscribe to these points of view. As you do subscribe to them now.
Basically, my request is to drive as you drive in your own countries, no special treatment for Armenia needed.
Our [relatively] recently appointed chief of police likes interviews, he gives them nearly everyday and tells about great progress in road police reforms. Nevertheless, I have never seen in my life a car with red or blue plates stopped for traffic rules violation. While violations by those drivers are many, risky, various and dangerous. Just in case you think the state doesn’t care (because it really doesn’t), the society and the rest of the drivers do.
Please accept the assurances of my highest consideration.
