Oh, god, the lady at the HS office was just so unnecessarily pissy at me

[conuly]

But it later transpired that apparently they're not sending out HS applications this year, you have to pick them up in person (because, in the words of the person in the other office, "they claim they can't get on our new system") and whether or not that claim is strictly valid, if she's been dealing with irritated parents the past couple of weeks I guess I can see why she's in a bad mood. I'm very generously assuming that this was the reason, anyway.

Because her pissiness was directed at me she actually supplanted the first unpleasant person I encountered today, who was probably worse. I just had bad luck! Tomorrow I'll only meet happy, cheerful, kind people.