All the bits are slowly falling into place for my imminent departure for Mexico.
My FAI licence has arrived. In fact the first one arrived a month ago after I’d signed the paperwork releasing my details to the FAI’s new database. Unfortunately the licence was quickly followed by a letter telling me I needed to sign some paperwork in order to get the licence that had already been sent and which was, by this time, living happily in the bottom of my wallet.
I signed this (to be sure) and inexplicably got another licence a week later to keep the first one company.
Then I got another letter telling me if I didn’t promptly sign the paperwork that I’d already signed twice there would be all sorts of problems with issuing my licence.
I threw this letter in the bin, as I was wary by now of the whole procedure repeating a third time and then ad infinitum. All was quiet till I got an email two weeks later passed on by the chairman of the comps panel naming and shaming a number of us who had ‘failed to sign the relevant paperwork to ensure our FAI licences could be issued promptly’.
I replied jauntily that my second licence was for sale to the highest bidder as long as they would ensure I got no more letters asking me to sign anything.
I’m not sure they saw the funny side and the licence is still for sale including a brand new, never-used FAI sticker should anyone wish to contact me… I might even try to shift it on eBay…
I always wondered where my FAI subs went. Now I know – postage.
Mark H
