The DMV: a saga of epic proportions

[smeddley]

Okay, maybe not. I get there, gape at the crowded waiting room, grab a ticket, and realize I didn't get the insurance card out of the Mustang. So (because that's what I drove, since I knew I needed to grab that, anyway) I trundle back out to the car and... there's no insurance card in there . Not even an old one! (Yay, me! 6 months spent driving around with no proof of insurance! Though there was a Home Depot delivery slip tucked in with my registration...) Cursing, I get in the car and drive home, thinking that at least I can print one off the website. Um, no, apparently not. Still, I have the new insurance cards (good starting Nov 15th) and both the old and new 'auto packet' that itemizes my insurance info. That has to be good, right? I mean, heck, that's more 'proof' than a stupid little card.

So I rush back to the DMV (40 minutes later, after taking the dog out and putzing about a bit) to find they haven't called my number yet, so no need for a new ticket. 10 minutes later I get called up to the window...

...and she doesn't even ask to see my insurance. I know it's a requirement. Unless they have it electronically or something. Still, I know if I'd sat there for 50 minutes and then realized it, I'd have needed it. Perhaps I burned more gas than I needed to (bit, frankly, at $2.19/gal that's not much of an issue for a 2-mile drive), but at least I wasn't stuck sitting and waiting forever. Whatever. Car tags are legal for another year.

Stay tuned today for the following exciting upcoming posts:

* Pictures! A few of my super-secret mission, though I don't have many. I don't know why I've not been very picture-y lately.

* A NaNo poll. You decide what I write! It will be kinda long, so I'll put that behind a cut. Still, I'd appreciate it being filled out.

* Whining and griping about how I haven't gotten anything done today and I don't want to go to work tomorrow! Okay, maybe that's not so exciting, but it's got a 67% probability of happening.

* Birthday loot gloating. :D

Comments

[aeamek.livejournal.com]

For the first time in ever, I walked into the DMV yesterday and there was NO ONE in line. I almost fell over. The DMV workers looked like they felt bad for still acting like assholes.

[smeddley.livejournal.com]

Pics or it didn't happen!

Seriously, I think you used up a year's worth of luck on that! I have NEVER seen our DMV with less than 50 people milling about.

And believe it or now, the person who waited on me at the DMV was very nice! Once I got up tot eh window it only took a minute, and she even (and not snottily) said 'have a nice day'!

[aeamek.livejournal.com]

You lie. That can not happen.

[icecat.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday!!!

I can't believe you had time to go home and come back, and they STILL hadn't called your number. I would have been pissed if I'd waited all that time and they didn't ask for it.

Where in Maryland did you head, out of curiosity?

[smeddley.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

I'd come prepared with a book, so I was expecting a wait. It's an uncomfortable place to sit, though, so I'm glad I didn't have to. Driving around was at least doing something.

I left out of Grasonville, over the *scary* bridge.