Second class citizen?

Went to the consulate general of Indonesia in Chicago today to extend my expiring passport. I thought it was going to be a less-than-an-hour-in-and-out thing. Then i realized that I have been living in the U.S too long. Recently i just got an interview for my green card and everything went so fast and smooth.

But, this was ridiculous! First you have to fill up two long applications which have similar questions of which you can find the answers in the old passport or license/ID card. Then, one of the officer said that they are out of the passport books so, what they would do was to just issue an extension seal in the old passport. I thought great, this should be even faster. Wrong! they still required me to submit two 4x4 photo and they don't do picture taking in the spot anymore like they used to do. So, I have to go to the nearest CVS to get my photos taken which is like a few blocks away and by that time, it's siesta time for them. And the funny thing is, you don't need any photos for an extension unless your passport is replaced with a new one. So, actually all those four hours of waiting was just for a seal and signature. A seal and signature! It could have been done in 5 minutes. All the time I was there, only a couple more people came for a quick pick-up and one other thing I couldn't remember.

Oh well, at least i saw something funny when i was there. You would think that Chicago is a Bears town, but not literally. This guy was wearing something that looked like a fur maybe. He looked like a bear running loose in the city. Well, maybe not running, mind you I don't want to offend any real bears out there because they really can accelerate up to 30 miles per hour if they want to. Not this guy though.