btb01
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My first stop in town was the post office, where I went to renew my passport, (which now costs nearly £100 ($134)). I handed over my expired passport, and the lady behind the counter asked where the gold lettering was, on the cover. Since it hadn't been embossed, but rather simply printed on, the lettering had worn off within a few months of my receiving the passport. I was surprised when she told me that this meant the passport was classed as "damaged", and that she couldn't process my application!She gave me a large paper form, and told me that I would have to re-apply for a passport as if I'd never had one before
That’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve heard in a while!
I just went to a different post office where the staff were more sensible
Great thinking!
By this point it was 11.30am, and I was ready for some pancakes, so I headed to the restaurant that I've been to on Pancake Day before, where they had an "All The Pancakes You Can Eat, All Day!" offer on for £7.45. I can't eat more than 2 or 3 pancakes these days, but it sounded OK to me. My server took the order, and I sat and waited for my first pancakes of the dayFifteen minutes later, he returned to tell me that they had run out of pancake batter!!!! What, flour, eggs, and milk??!! The place is almost next door to a supermarket!
Far from happy, I left, and walked to a local creperie, which I used to eat at regularly. I haven't been here for a while, and what a disappointment. The solitary pancakes wasn't much tastier than cardboard, and I don't know where the chicken part of the 'Mexican Chicken' filling was! It both looked, and tasted, like someone had wiped down a thin crepe, with a mildly spicy sauce, out of a jar. Cost me nearly £10, and to add insult to injury, they wouldn't accept cash!
I decided to go and buy some fruit, and I'll make some at home later
Sorry to hear your quest for pancakes was a bust.
If you need to know how to make ‘em look like Mickey Mouse, just let me know.
I bet you could do a Dutch baby on the grill or smoker (depending on what kind you have).
Do these pancakes count?
When she first started, she told me that knives weren't allowed to be sent in the mail, and refused to change her view, even when I showed her the printed leaflet from the post office counter, and a screenshot from their website! 
I've been writing 'slipjoint' on the customs form since then! 
