premise: My statement was calculated to 1 ) assert that I would not put up with any bureaucratic asininity , and 2 ) give the clerk a chance to sympathize , to groan with me over the stupid little rules she is made to enforce . After all , I was n't criticizing her at all ; it 's an idiotic rule that an in - state ID does n't count as proof of residency , and her colleagues in another office were lax in not documenting the proof of residency I had had to show them to get the ID in the first place . Cutting red tape is an art . She did n't take the out . What may have been your reason for calculating your statement ?
hypothesis: I wanted to find a middle ground with the stupid little rules .