A Story to Share

As part of the supporting documents to apply for my children's visa, we have to attach the Certified True Copy of the photo and  visa pages of my passport.  So, last Tuesday, we went to the City Centre - quite confident are we to get all three copies certified at the legal firm which service we have been using previously.

Unfortunately we were told that the Notary Public will be back only "after the first week of June". Hmmm.... that will be too late, we thought. We thanked them and left for another firm but this time we were told that we have to make an appointment and it will cost us £50. Well, if we are not watching our budget (we were charged £25 previously), we may say yes owing to the urgency of the matter. But again we thanked the nice lady at the Reception and we decided to look yet for another firm and this time the Receptionist explained apologetically that they only do such certification for their registered clients. At this point of time, we started forming plans A, B & C : A - to get the Head Teacher of the children's school to certify; B - to get the University officials to do it or C, go back to Firm no. 2. We kept walking though and arrived at another legal firm. My husband was asking me whether it is worth checking out. Since it is situated very close to where we parked our car, I decided to try my luck for the last time.

I climbed the stairs and I started regretting my decision - the office is much posher than the others - should I just turn back? But my legs kept carrying me to the Reception. I asked and was told that if I could wait, the person who is dealing with it will come and see me. I agreed to wait. A few minutes later, a man approached asking me how he could help. I told him. Yes, he said. He will happily do it. And I asked him how much will it cost me. And at this moment I really thought that something is wrong with my ears. I asked him again. He started smiling and said "You heard it right, first time - I was saying, how about a box of chocolate. I tell you what, this is too small a business to charge anything for.  Now, if you are all right with that, let's go to my office and get the documents certified."

Well, I think that story is worth sharing.  To me there are a few lessons to be learned as well. The next day I send him a box of  Thornton.  I really hope he enjoy it.  Anyone of you have similar stories of something unexpected? Do share, yeah! :-D And Happy Sunday!

Source of image of Thorntons chocolate is from www.thechocolatereview.net