Ticking Boxes

A day to go into town and tick off a few administrative tasks, among which was a visit to the payroll office who had, despite my advanced years, managed to enrol me in the Teachers’ Pension Scheme and deduct contributions, the rectification of which required me to complete and send in a form via payroll to the TPS, that I then received back from the TPS with a letter telling me that payroll had not ticked a box they should have and asking me to get them to tick the box and return the form with the box ticked; why they couldn’t send it direct to the people who had not ticked the box for them to tick the box and send it back, box ticked, I don’t know, but fortunately as I walked into the payroll office block the very woman who should have ticked the box was in the reception and took the form off me, promising to tick the box and send it off – so that was one task well and truly ticked off the list.