Remember a few months ago when you got that form in the mail to fill out for the census? Well, we got the big thick one and two of the smaller ones. Annoyed? Yes. We were. I threw away the second small one and filled out the other two. Then we got a phone call and the lady asked me the questions I failed to answer on the thick form. I told her I didn't know the answers (aka it's not really any of your business) and she let me off the hook.
Last week we got a letter in the mail that we were chosen to participate in a 4 month interview (part of the census). Did any of you get a letter like that? Does anybody have a clue what I'm talking about? We are so lucky, aren't we?
Seriously? You'd think people thought we were smuggling money or illegal immigrants or something. Why the third degree?
So tonight, a lady from the census came to my door to interview me. I told her no thank you and that we had gotten the impression (from the letter) that it was optional. She told me it really wasn't, but she can write me down as refused. (So doesn't that sort of make it optional? Or will there be a punishment later on down the road?) So I explained why I refused and how annoyed we were by all the other papers we filled out. She told me if we had gotten the big packet to fill out we shouldn't have been chosen for the interview. (Wow. Can we say ORGANIZED AMERICA?) But since we were on the list and in the computer already, we have to go through with it now. She did mention, though, that it's the house that is up for the interview, not the people. So technically, if we moved, we're released from the bondage of the census.
I think we're going to move...
Girl... I think this is normal. The US has taken a census since it began, and sometimes they even ask the citizens to share their voice, and you get to share yours. That is kinda' cool. Maybe it's annoying, but I guess it's all how ya' look at it.
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