Monthly Archives: August 2006

OPD 08/01/2006 © 2006 Brooke Allen brooke@brookeallen.com http://www.BrookeAllen.com Originally published in International Family Magazine I once had a run-in with a shopkeeper in New York City so I wrote down his license number and began calling the consumer affairs hotline. The line was busy. I put the number on speed-dial. The number was busy forContinue reading “How to Complain to the Government”

OPD 08/01/2006 brooke@brookeallen.com http://www.BrookeAllen.com Originally published in International Family Magazine After sending the mayor the letter, I felt so much better. The consumer affairs hotline still didn’t pick up their phone but that no longer mattered. I had so much fun thinking up the letter and I was proud of myself. A few months afterContinue reading “How to Respond to a Citizen”