Today was an answer to prayer! As we walked into the warehouse office building, DRJ was confident that we would finish the Kaliti part today. I, preferring to be pleasantly surprised rather than disappointed, couldn’t muster his optimism as I handed him our paperwork (including the recently translated power-of-attorney from the day before). But, thankfully, he was right and I was wrong. Kaliti seemed a bit less chaotic today as DRJ quickly pushed his way to the front of the ever-popular window 16. I surprised when a minute later he returned empty-handed, “now we just wait.” Yes! That means that they have accepted our paperwork after a quick glance and are drawing up the appraisal document that we had tried to obtain the previous two days.
Fifteen minutes of waiting was easy, knowing that the gears were actually turning in the forward direction. Our names were called and we were handed a charge to pay 100 birr ($8) at window #22, which become window #2 when nobody was at #22. Turning in our payment receipt, we soon received what we were looking for – the appraisal of the vehicle’s worth for the purpose of charging me 2% sales tax back at the first office. Victorious having finished the Kaliti portion of the vehicle sale (I’ll have to return there for the registration process), we headed home with the plans of continuing the process again Monday afternoon. It seems that in the country, you run through a process like this until you hit a wall. Then you have to take a few steps backward (like going to Kaliti, getting witnesses, getting translation of the power-of-attorney) in order to get over or around that wall. Then you continue from wall to wall, until you are finally surprised with a final product.
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