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Speaker 1: This is the Fitting in Whipper with Kate Richie podcast Fitz.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to tell you about something I've experienced recently.

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Speaker 1: I've been to see the same circus four times.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if I've told you about this.

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Speaker 1: Ashton's No, It's got Service New South Wales.

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Speaker 2: Oh sorry, I've been.

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Speaker 1: There four times now. It's such a hoosh. I thought

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Speaker 1: i'd say this, tell this story for.

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Speaker 3: Anybody to find it fascinating. When you're waiting in line

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Speaker 3: to see you can people watch at Service New South

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Speaker 3: Fast all day?

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Speaker 1: You can. That's once you've got your ticket. After you've

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Speaker 1: lined up out the door, I go to the Bondi junction.

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Speaker 2: Want.

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Speaker 1: I've been there a few times now. I know very

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Speaker 1: very well. All I needed to do was register the

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Speaker 1: trailer for the tinny.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 1: It's a four point four point two meter Quintrex tinny.

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Speaker 1: It's very simple, mate, with a thirty yamahar on the back.

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Speaker 1: So I've gone through all the paperwork required. Let's go

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Speaker 1: through the first time I turned up there. You need

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Speaker 1: proof of purchase, right, And I just want to tell

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Speaker 1: this story for anybody that's experienced the anxiety of turning

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Speaker 1: up to one of these services sensus centers, because you

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Speaker 1: walk in there, you're always under the pump.

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Speaker 2: It's your lunch break.

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Speaker 1: You don't know how long you're going to be waiting there,

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Speaker 1: and already your heart is racing when you get in there.

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Speaker 1: The anxiety of when your number is called and you're

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Speaker 1: hoping that you have ticked off everything in the paperwork

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Speaker 1: and that you've got everything you need down to a

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Speaker 1: tee and they're going to be able to say, okay, stamp,

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Speaker 1: stamp there you go, have a great day.

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Speaker 2: The likelihood of that happening is about ten percent.

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Speaker 3: I reckon.

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Speaker 1: So first time I go in there, I've waited an

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Speaker 1: hour and I go through.

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Speaker 2: I've done all the paperwork you obviously haven't.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 2: The boat needs to be registered as well. So then

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Speaker 2: I go in there.

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Speaker 1: You need to have proof of purchase, you need your

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Speaker 1: blue slip, you need everything else that's required. And I

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Speaker 1: get there, everything's done, and the guy says, oh, we

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Speaker 1: actually need an ink ink signature from the cellar of

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Speaker 1: the boat, and I said, well, it's my dad. I

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Speaker 1: bought the boat off Dad five hundred bucks. Right, So

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Speaker 1: here's the note. Dad sent me an email because he

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Speaker 1: lives in Melbourne and I've printed it out, the proof

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Speaker 1: of purchase five hundred dollars and they went, no, you

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Speaker 1: need an ink signature. So okay, okay, right, So I

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Speaker 1: mean he's written here and I can call him if

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Speaker 1: you want to a verbal on it, just quickly. I

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Speaker 1: mean he can read out his driver's license. No, we

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Speaker 1: need an ink signature. So I then have to leave

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Speaker 1: the place after waiting an hour and call Dad and say, Dad,

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Speaker 1: could you print out the letter you sent me in

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Speaker 1: an email and could you sign it and then manually

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Speaker 1: using snail mail, post it to Sydney so I can

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Speaker 1: then go and wait another hour at Services New South

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Speaker 1: Wales to sit there and mind you fits. This is

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Speaker 1: what I do every time. Great tip for everybody, well,

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Speaker 1: I thought, so say to them, have a look at

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Speaker 1: the rest of my paperwork. Is there anything else I

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Speaker 1: need here? And they go, no, just the ink signature.

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Speaker 1: So I walk out of there, I go get the

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Speaker 1: signature from Dad, A war back in and I'll wait

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Speaker 1: another hour. Now this wasn't this wasn't their fault. I

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Speaker 1: fell asleep. I was exhausted.

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Speaker 2: Oh I fell asleep.

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Speaker 1: I missed my number right, Yeah, I go to get

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Speaker 1: another number. I'm waiting there for another forty five minutes,

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Speaker 1: so I've slept for an hour, done forty five Wait,

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Speaker 1: now I've got a.

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Speaker 2: Lest got to be vision of this somewhere on a seat.

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Speaker 1: Now I have to leave to go and pick up

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Speaker 1: the kids. So another false start. Trying to get a

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Speaker 1: trailer registered. And I'm good with paperwork. This is a

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Speaker 1: guy who just did four passports clean crisp, not one error.

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Speaker 1: You would have thought passports would be harder than registering

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Speaker 1: a trailer.

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Speaker 2: So I go back in for the third time.

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Speaker 1: I wait another forty five to an hour, and then

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Speaker 1: I showed them I've got the ink signature, and I

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Speaker 1: show them the paperwork and they go yep, yep. The

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Speaker 1: guy goes to get the number played out for the

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Speaker 1: new trailer, and I sit there and he goes, oh, no,

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Speaker 1: your blue SIPs more than forty two days old, so

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Speaker 1: we can't accept that.

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Speaker 2: Anyway, checked it.

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Speaker 1: I was in here, I was in here a week ago,

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Speaker 1: and you said, well, the paperwork was done anyway.

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Speaker 2: So I leave again, and I think I can't go

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Speaker 2: back in there, like.

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Speaker 1: The anxiety is building, So I said, you know what,

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to wait another forty five.

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Speaker 2: I'll do the clever thing. I'll make a booking. Fits.

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Speaker 1: So I had to wait three weeks to make a

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Speaker 1: booking to get in there. I go in there the

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Speaker 1: other day. I've now spent another two hundred dollars on

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Speaker 1: a new blue slip.

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Speaker 2: I've spent six hundred dollars on the paperwork. Mate, today

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Speaker 2: you fell asleep. You've had opportunities.

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Speaker 3: You've let yourself down, your family.

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Speaker 1: I've spent more trying to register the tinny than the

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Speaker 1: tinny is worth.

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Speaker 3: More importantly, you've let the Yamaha down. That's what Yama.

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Speaker 3: He just wants the Yama Yamaha. Third, he just wants

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Speaker 3: to get out under the water and fishing.

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Speaker 2: It's a beautiful boat. You can't, clearly you can't. But

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Speaker 2: I'm going in with confidence. Fits.

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Speaker 1: I've made my eleven o'clock booking and I roll through

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Speaker 1: the door. My number comes straight up. There's no waite time.

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Speaker 2: I'm on a rowl. So I get there, I sit down.

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Speaker 1: The guy gets the number plate and he says, oh,

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Speaker 1: the mechanic that gave you the blue slip should have

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Speaker 1: filled this bit out. Oh and I we're not doing

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Speaker 1: this again, mate, We are not doing this. And I

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Speaker 1: sat down and I didn't raise my voice. You know

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Speaker 1: those moments where you go, Okay, there's two ways I

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Speaker 1: can go here. I can pull out an M sixteen

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Speaker 1: and blow the entire place to put pieces.

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Speaker 2: No, that's it.

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Speaker 1: I can just find the right tone and ask to

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Speaker 1: speak to the manager. So I've then gone into one

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Speaker 1: of the great monologues of the modern era.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, very good.

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Speaker 3: That's usually it's at a restaurant when the mains come out.

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Speaker 1: And I've done head down, eyes up, that kind of gear.

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Speaker 2: Look of disappointment.

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Speaker 1: I've delivered an issue with the system, and I've even

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Speaker 1: removed the personal from it.

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Speaker 2: And I said it's I think his name is run Jab.

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Speaker 2: I said, run Jeb.

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Speaker 1: It's not your fault. It's not your fault at all.

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Speaker 1: It's the system's fault. But I've spent you're asking me

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Speaker 1: to spend another two high undred dollars so I can

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Speaker 1: get a trailer, a tinny out on the water. And

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Speaker 1: I said, I'm better off paying the fine for an

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Speaker 1: unregistered trailer. That is what you've done to me, life, mate,

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Speaker 1: I said, rum Dad, I'm going to walk out of here,

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Speaker 1: and I won't have changed his name.

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Speaker 2: His name was rum Jab I'm sure of it.

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Speaker 1: I'm prepared to break the law and cop the fine

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Speaker 1: because of what I've had to go through dealing with

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Speaker 1: your organization.

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Speaker 2: Oh this is rum Jazz. You don't think they cop

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Speaker 2: this every single day.

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Speaker 1: For anybody that's been through the process of the paperwork

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Speaker 1: and services in New South Wales, I feel you and

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Speaker 1: I'm here to support you.

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Speaker 2: I'm speaking on behalf of you this morning.

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Speaker 1: Anyone else care? Just quickly around the room, anyone else cares?

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Speaker 1: Four minutes of wasted time? Oli doesn't care. Mad he

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Speaker 1: doesn't care. Thanks Maddie. Whip with Kate Ritchie is a

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