I am growing rather weary of explaining to various mortgage-related employees why my husband will not be signing any forms until he returns on August 1.
“So if you and John could just sign that and fax it right back to us…”
“John is out of town, but I’ll sign it to get things rolling.”
“Oh, well if you’ll just fax it to him where he is, have him sign, and then fax it back to us….”
“He’s in remote Turkey. He doesn’t even have email. I’m reasonably certain he’s not going to be able to print it, sign it, and return it. Why don’t we have him sign when he gets back on August 1, as we have previously discussed approximately 43 times?”
“I’m sure his hotel has a fax machine. If you’ll just call him and check…”
“RURAL. TURKEY. I cannot even get him on the phone, let alone confirm that whatever tiny guest house he’s staying in has a fax machine.”
(Related: what’s with all the faxing? I’m convinced the mortgage application industry is single-handedly keeping faxing technology alive.)
“Oh. Well, ok then, I guess we could just have him sign when he gets back. When will that be again?”
“August 1″
“Okay, then. August 1.”
“Yeah, I thought you might say that.”
“Now, on this next form, if you and John could just sign it and fax it back….”
/ scene
YES. What is with the FAXING? And the complete inability to hear what people are telling them?
I will say, when we bought our house we had no fax machine (still don’t) and didn’t work in offices with fax machines (still don’t) and I was able to do everything via scan-and-email. Thank god or we would have paid a fortune to a copy shop with a fax machine somewhere.
Our fax machine at work … 99% of what it’s used for is receiving SPAM faxes regarding cheap vacations and health insurance offers. It’s ridiculous. They all but got rid of 8-tracks and tape players. Why can’t we just rid ourselves of the fax machines?!?!?
And here i thought my father was single-handedly keeping the faxing industry alive. Congrats on the house, by the way! I need details. And pictures.
And I thought it was dreadful having to do this when my husband was on the other side of the COUNTRY. At least he had email. (And we were scanning faxed documents. I could hardly believe the chicken scratch final document was legal.)
I know with the faxing. Why, why does is still exist? It’s right up there with mimeographing.
(Also, Sam sent me some pics of the new abode. VERY snazzy! Congratulations!)