Germany is such a cocked up place. Seriously. I needed to get a new ID Card and also a biometric passport for going to the states, so I ordered one. I already noticed on my old ID card that they missspelled my surname. So I'm a McGinley, but according to the bureaucrates it is Mc Ginley. Whenever booking a flight or loads of documents about me are misspelled and wrong and everything. I often pop under G henceforth. So I asked them if they couldn't put my surname the way it was meant to be spelled by the Irish who bloody well created the name and some stupid German bureaucrat in his office.
But nope, they said, the only way they can spell it, is according to what my birth certificate says. Well luckily that was made by German bureaucrates too, who couldn't read the passport of my father and made it Mc Ginley. So now I'm stuck with this name for like forever, or my father can proove that he in fact is a McGinley not a Mc Ginley. Seriously, even McDonalds is spelled in one word. It can't be soooo hard. Argh. This really pisses me of.
I normally don't care about names, but coming to think of it, your name is really the only thing you are going to be remembered by when you are long gone and I don't want to be remembered with my false name. Really. They even told me, I'm not allowed to sign with my surname being one word. After me making doggy eyes about it all, I at least got the right of signing my name like McGinley, while the c is stuck slightly above the bass line. Stupid f***s. They particular disallowed the spelling of Mcginley, as this would be illegal. Stupid idiots spell it like that themselves quite often. I'm actually worrying about stuff like my leaving certificate being no invalid, as it is given to a Mr McGinley and not to a Mr Mc Ginley. Wah. It really annoys me. These bureaucrates think McGinley is like a German von Mueller or stuff like that. 🙁
Additionally I hope that the Durch won't make a dog's breakfast of my name when handing me my bachelor certificate next year. For some odd reason my registration as McGinley ended with Maastricht like Macginley. I keep forgetting my student email address, cause it is completely illogical. Names are sooooo annoying 🙁
