Zoe's Tale (Old Man's War, #4)

by John Scalzi

stomped over to Hickory and Dickory and demanded they tell Mom to let me do what I wanted; Hickory told me they would have to file a request to their government for guidance, and it would take several days, by which time I would already have to be in bed. It was my first exposure to the tyranny of bureaucracy.

Sometimes I don’t know if my life is complicated, or if it’s that I just think too much about things.