Have any of you tried getting a new drivers license lately?
It. is. impossible.
Three trips later and I finally have a new one in hand.
Finally.
Prep: Look at website to see what is needed ('cuz I've heard it's bad). Birth certificate, SS card, and two bills in your name with your current address.
Check.
Prep some more: Fix hair, dress up, face fully make-uped.
Check.
Tell someone where I'm going and they tell me to bring lots of reading material. (Shoot.) (( I hadn't thought of that.))
Stop to get magazines. Spend $20.
Check.
Trip 1: Get to DMV (which is way out in the middle of no-mans-land).
Fill out application.
Take number.
Sit for an hour.
Talk to someone next to me and they tell me that even a government issued military ID is not good enough for the government issued drivers license. Wow. Crazy. As my number is getting closer, I check to make sure I have everything they need. Shoot. Forgot to grab bills off of the counter. UGH. I go up, interrupt the workers, and ask if my hubby can fax me the bills. Nope. They don't accept faxes. Only originals.
Leave.
Prep for trip 2: Fix hair (which is killing me to do it again), makeup, nice clothes... bring a book (since I already read my $20 worth of magazines), make sure I have the bills this time.
Check. Check. And check.
Trip 2: Drive to no-mans-land. Pass it 'cuz I was talking on the phone and not paying any attention. Drive 20 minutes out of my way... back to no-mans-land.
Look for last application that I had already filled out. WHERE did I put it? Can't find it.
Take number.
Fill out 2nd application.
Wait for hour.
Get up there and they need my marriage license now. (I've been married for 10 years.) ((Where was that on the website?)) And not just any marriage license. They can't take the pink ones (((that are notarized))), they need a blue one fresh from the courthouse. Huh?
Leave.
Go to work late... with no drivers license. Call hubby. Ask him if he'll go get our marriage license (from 10 years ago) and tell me what color it is.
He goes home.
It's pink.
Go figure.
He goes to the court house to get a blue one. 15 bucks. He hands them our debit card. They don't take debit or credit cards. OR CHECKS. He doesn't have enough cash.
Leaves.
Brings me our original marriage certificate and tells me where to go when I go on break. I beg and plead with him to go do it for me. Amazingly he does. And this time brings cash. He gets the blue one, which is the same exact concept only blue. Brings it back over to me (did I mention I work in no-mans-land too -- but in a different area of no-mans-land than the DMV?) in blue.
Prep: Shed work uniform and change into cute clothes. Freshen hair and makeup.
Check.
Head to no-mans-land for:
Trip 3.
Take number.
Read.
Wait.
Read.
Pay $20.
FINALLY get drivers license and leave that place that I hope not to see again for another 5 years.
In five years, we'll probably be required to bring our first tooth, hair from our first hair cut, and our first dirty diaper.
My goodness.
Knowing my luck, I'll lose it and have to go back sooner.
Humph.
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11 comments:
UGH!! So irritating.. way to get the hubby in on it ;)
my fav tho.. is that you stopped to get magazines!
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?? We seriously have to go through all THAT now? Why on earth do they need a marriage license??? What if you are a single person? I gotta hear more about this!!! (and it's now worrying me that I destroyed our SS cards ON THE ADVICE OF OUR BANK to prevent identity theft!!)
I feel your pain! I read, and re-read all the information online, and luckily, I brought it all in at one time. However...when they took my picture, they said...look at the blue dot...which is 6 inches below the camera, so I looked half-baked in my photo! ARGH!
I have heard about this - I think the marriage license thing is just a way to make more money!! This is getting pretty crazy - I wonder how many people will start just going without until they get pulled over.
Hahaha! I would be SUPER peeved, BUT for some reason this story reminded me of that one story... a few years ago... when you worked for Spiegel... and the cops... ya know... maybe you should tell that story next.
You're welcome. That's what sisters are for. :P Love ya!
I totally agree with your sister - that's a GREAT story!! Either that one or the Gap shirt one!! :)
You two up there in the comments (you know who you are)... SHhhhh. Enough. Zip.the.lip! :o)
whoa. I live in NYS. I renewed my license on my birthday in January, I was literally in and out in 15 minutes. I gave them my old drivers license, they asked if I wanted to keep the picture or take a new one. I said a new, stood on the X, approved the picture and I was off on my merry way! I'm so sorry you had to go through all of that! Kuddos to the hubby :)
Oh yeah... love the GAP story, too!
yuck I know how you feel I went they needed my ss card I said they said not to carry it with you anymore and it was on my old liscence so back to the house then went back 2 forms of id plus ss card all i had was old dl ss card and sams card no not enough... go back home I know how you feel
I hate the dmv
Have a wonderful week
julie
The Marriage License is for married women to prove they legally changed their name.
They took my pink copy, since it was notarized...weird that they didn't take yours.
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