Before computers and Internet, to reserve anything, you have to call that place, you hear nice music and “all our agents are serving other customers please wait …” and nice music again, then hopefully someone will answer you, you ask for an appointment, and the person on the phone will use his/here agenda and pencil, he/she search for a suitable time slot for you and the negotiations continue until you get mutual agreement about a day and time. Thanks God, nowadays we have computers and online reservation systems :D but we still think as human ;)
I was trying to book a road test online and I was surprised by the ICBC website, take a look and tell me what do you think :)
and of course I tried “hours of availability” link and I got this
note: Sunday system starts at 9:00am not 6:00am.
I got some funny ideas about this online reservation system that works only for some hours during the day, here are some interpretations:
- They shut down the server each day, because of electricity saving :)
- Or for some reason they could not connect to the Database, so as a work around, they hired someone to sit in front of the computer with agenda and pencil.
tell me what do you think? ;)