Plate & License Renewal
It was only 60 minutes of our lives, no big deal. Trips to the DMV aren't so bad anymore as there is a cueing system. I'm sure that we all remember when it was just "take a number and stand in line." I said it would take 55 minutes, Dan said 50 minutes. We were both wrong as it was almost 60 minutes on the nose.
It was an interesting slice of Americana. We saw a young girl getting ready to take her road test, a gentlemen renewing his CDL and who knows what kind of business folks had there. You have the patient waiters, the chatty waiters, the fidgety waiters, the annoyed waiters, cell-phone talking waiters and the workers. You have the down to business workers... I guess that's what there was. They all seemed down to business. Not annoyed, not chatty.
I was nervous as I had two transactions to complete, plate AND license renewal. I wasn't sure that I could complete both at one visit to counter #5. I was lucky. I didn't fill out the form entirely... not once but twice... the woman behind the counter was not annoyed. Both times she simply stated, "Please complete these questions." I can see why they want those questions asked. The questions have to do with heart palpitations, dizzy spells, revokation, suspension, you know.
I haven't had a picture taken for my license in something like 6 years. That was the last trip to the DMV for me. So, today was my big day. I wondered out loud why there isn't a rattle or a dolly that is used to get Wisconsin Driver's License holders to smile. Let me just say this about my picture. The gentleman took my picture and then said "We're going to do that again." Then he tood my picture again. A few minutes later I got my brand new license. I looked at the picture. The first one must have been awfully bad if he let this one get through. I'll take this time to tell the story of license renewal at the age of 21. When the DMV agent handed it back to me, even she was laughing. I thought that it must be bad if a person who looks at hundreds of terrible pictures each day was laughing.
After the DMV, we took the old green ghost for an oil change, wash and vaccuum. I even got new windshield wipers. $4.00 and wash your little heart out... fun.
From Russia with Love and then more Bond gems!
It was an interesting slice of Americana. We saw a young girl getting ready to take her road test, a gentlemen renewing his CDL and who knows what kind of business folks had there. You have the patient waiters, the chatty waiters, the fidgety waiters, the annoyed waiters, cell-phone talking waiters and the workers. You have the down to business workers... I guess that's what there was. They all seemed down to business. Not annoyed, not chatty.
I was nervous as I had two transactions to complete, plate AND license renewal. I wasn't sure that I could complete both at one visit to counter #5. I was lucky. I didn't fill out the form entirely... not once but twice... the woman behind the counter was not annoyed. Both times she simply stated, "Please complete these questions." I can see why they want those questions asked. The questions have to do with heart palpitations, dizzy spells, revokation, suspension, you know.
I haven't had a picture taken for my license in something like 6 years. That was the last trip to the DMV for me. So, today was my big day. I wondered out loud why there isn't a rattle or a dolly that is used to get Wisconsin Driver's License holders to smile. Let me just say this about my picture. The gentleman took my picture and then said "We're going to do that again." Then he tood my picture again. A few minutes later I got my brand new license. I looked at the picture. The first one must have been awfully bad if he let this one get through. I'll take this time to tell the story of license renewal at the age of 21. When the DMV agent handed it back to me, even she was laughing. I thought that it must be bad if a person who looks at hundreds of terrible pictures each day was laughing.
After the DMV, we took the old green ghost for an oil change, wash and vaccuum. I even got new windshield wipers. $4.00 and wash your little heart out... fun.
From Russia with Love and then more Bond gems!
posted by Ann @ 3:09 PM
1 Comments:
At 9:00 PM, December 31, 2005,
Anonymous said…
I laughed so hard at this entry Annie, I'm sure the pic isn't that bad. I can't wait to see it. I am writing this at 9pm on New Years Eve, your blog has been the highlight of the evening so far. Wish we were all hanging out as originally planned. Maybe next year.
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