The power of persistence

Remember this? 

I had another conversation with the same woman as before about the master HOA's requirements before I worked out in the gym room at the clubhouse this morning.  They were willing to accept Stretch's military ID in lieu of a Driver's License showing his current address.  They wondered if I would be willing to get a state-issued ID (not a Driver's License), though.  Apparently, they are only $10.  We talked a bit longer and I finally understood that their main objective was to prevent people from renting a place for only a week or a month at a time. 

Well, we have a lease that says otherwise.  We have a tenancy approval letter from our HOA (it falls under the master HOA).  All our bills come to this address, but they won't accept them as proof that we actually live there.

I did my workout while stewing over all this.  In fact, I barely noticed when I was running.  And that is saying quite a lot, folks!

Afterward, I approached the woman again.  I don't know if it was because I was sweaty and probably stinky or because of my badgering persistence.  The conversation didn't go particularly well. 

Me:  I just want to clarify:  You're willing to cut my husband a break but not me?

Her:  We just wondered if you'd be willing to get a [state] ID.  Just forget it.

Me:  It's the principle...

Her:  Just forget it!

I had planned to explain that it didn't make sense to make an exception for Stretch because he's in the military but not for me because I'm not when we're married.  I have an ID that has both our names on it showing that we are married.  I had planned to tell her that I felt I was being discriminated against for being married to someone in the military.  The list went on but she clearly didn't want to hear any of it. 

That's okay, though. 

Because I won.

Comments

[airforcewife]

Good for you!

I totally get where you're coming from on this. I know I don't wear a uniform, but my life is still dictated by that uniform. It frustrates me HUGELY to be treated like a second class citizen that way.

[Christine C]

I'm glad that you won!! I totally agree with you airforcewife!

[aggie af wife]

You Go Girl!

[Tesha]

Good for you! I know rules are in place for a reason but, there are always exceptions! Military wives should always be the exception for every rule that has to be bent...we have to deal with so much! I wouldn't have done it either.

[Christina]

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[army_wife]

I'm glad things worked out. It's irritating when people look at you like "So...? Why should you not have to follow the rules just because you're a milspouse?".

Civilians sometimes don't get this stuff.

[joss]

So glad to hear you won. Reminds me of when my dad retired at the beginning of my senior year of high school and ten months later the state college wanted us to pay out of state tuition for my first semester. We had at that point been living in that state for four and a half years, but they felt that he might move in the two months he had left in his first year of retirement. I ended starting college a semester late rather than pay out of state tuition. It was really stupid.