GAAAAHHH!!!

Today started much like Friday did. I got to work and realised there wasn't much I could do. I'm still waiting for documents and things to be validated. To make things worse not many people seemed to be in. I wasted some time, um, did some work until 12:00 and then went and asked the secretary if she thought it would be ok if I went to sort out getting a social security number.
On my way from home to the metro station I dropped my suit in at the dry cleaners before catching the metro to Bercy. A week or 2 ago I had emailed the social security to find out how I could get a number. They replied telling me to go to 113 rue de Bercy. When I got to Bercy I left the metro station and headed off in what I thought would be the right direction. Unfortunately I hadn't noticed it said Rue de Bercy and I was walking along Boulevard de Bercy. Eventually I got to Rue de Bercy and to where I should find number 113. 113 is an apartment (or perhaps just the space taken up by garages for some apartments). *Sigh*. I asked around and after walking about some more I eventually found it at number 173, with the entrance hidden behind some stairs (it's just near Gare de Lyon). I made my way up to the office and took a ticket. I thought I was going to have to wait for ages but my number came up as I got to the front of the queue at the reception desk (to confirm where I had to go, what I was doing there...). Anyhow, I went into the little office and told the woman I needed a social security number. I handed her the email response I'd received so I could be certain that she wouldn't understand my situation. She explained that I couldn't get a social security number there as I needed to get it from my local office and go there with my first payslip and a form that work would give me. GAAAAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!
Well that was a waste of a day!
It was too late to go back to work so I went to the shopping centre at la Defense to see about getting a mobile phone. I went back home, dropped off my stuff, then went back to the shopping centre to pick up my suit and buy some food, I'm really beginning to hate those steps up to la Defense. There are escalators but they don't work and won't be fixed until the new year (they've put a sign up but haven't started work yet).
I'm going to bed now as there's a meeting tomorrow morning which I'll probably have to take minutes for. Thankfully I know a bit about the subject so it shouldn't be too difficult.