Posted: 10/28/2007 9:33:10 AM EDT
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So, my DL expires on my birthday, and my birthday is tomorrow. The DMV where I live is only open the third thursday of every month and then only when there is a full moon, and the outside temperature is between 50 and 70 degrees F. After double checking that they will be open, I head on down. I only live three blocks away. A little backstory. I had been down there about a year ago to update my address. At that time, the "servers" were "slow" and so while the counter person could not give me a new DL, she put one of those stickers on the back of my DL with my new address, and promised that it would be entered "when the system is back up". Needless to say it never happened, as I found out when a State Trooper gave me a warning for "failure to notify address change". Anyway....so I get there, and there are two counter people working. They are running people through and having them take a seat "if you want to wait". System is slow......not sure if or when new stuff will get through. And it's less than an hour until they close. Wow.....a year later and still having network issues. Go Wisconsin IT!!!!! I wait my turn and go up with my form already filled out. Go through the same hassle. After about 20 minutes of relating to other customers how this would be our health care under socialized medicine, the submissions actually start to go through and we start getting pics taken and stuff. I get mine done, and sit back down. After a few minutes they call my name to come up, pay the fee, and get my new DL. She passes me off to the other counter person, a weasely little troll of a man. I head over there, and I see a handwritten sign that says "We need singles please, thanks!"....right underneath the sign that says "no checks" and "credit cards not accepted". Said man tells me "ok, that's $38.50". NOTE - I MIGHT HAVE THAT NUMBER OFF.....but it's not really important. Anyway, I pull out and hand over a couple $20s. He looks at them and says "sorry, I can't break that, we won't be able to make this transaction". I was incredulous. Here I am, renewing my STATE mandated DL so I can meet the requirements laid out by the STATE, and exercise the PRIVILEGE (granted by the STATE) of operating a motor vehicle, and the very same STATE cannot make change in order to grant me that privilege? NO way, I thought. The state requires this license, they have to be required to have a reasonable means to issue them. "That's not my problem" I said. DMV weasel doesn't miss a beat, he looks at me and smirks, and says "it's not mine either". WHAT?????? At this point, I could have lost it, but I say a way out, even though it would take extra effort on my part. I just told the guy to hand on to my DL and I would run to the gas station across the street to get change. And that's exactly what I did. |
Mail? I use the interweb. www.hsmv.state.fl.us/ |
And I bet you saw a light bulb appear over a few people's heads when that sunk in. 
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only reason my pic is newer than the original is because on my last renewal they wanted a redone eye test so I figured I'd kill 2 birds with one stone renewal by mail rules |
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Here in TN, the Dept. of Safety does the CCL's. I go to the local office & stand in line (me & a thousand illegals, but I digress). After 30 minutes, I get to the window: Me: I'd like to get my CCL please. Her: Okay, fill out this form & then bring it back to me. Me: You mean I HAVE to stand in line AGAIN to reach you? Her: Yes. Me: Whatever.............. I fill out the form, stand in line for another 30 minutes & get back to Princess: Me: Here's your form. I would also like to get a duplicate CCL as well. Her: That requires filling out a second form. (Same as the first one, just the SOS.) Me: You mean I HAVE to get in line for the THIRD time????!!!!! Her: Yes, I guess so. Me: Why didn't you mention this LAST time or ask me if I wanted a duplicate done? Her: (she has no comment/blank look) Me: Also, WHY aren't these forms out on the tables like the rest of the DL forms? WHY am I WASTING 30 minutes in line JUST TO GET THE FORM? Her: (no comment/blank stare) Me: Let me fill out the second one, it'll take only a minute. (It's almost a copy of the 4473, I can do those in 5 seconds.) Her: No! You'll have to GET BACK IN LINE! Me: You're a STUPID !@#$%^&*, you know that???!!!!! Next thing I know, the branch supervisor has me in her office, asking me what my "problem" was. Calmly, I explained to her how I have wasted almost 2 hours just getting the forms to fill out. Surprisingly, she agreed with me that the forms should be out on a table, but they don't do so "because people take them"...........  "Oh", I say. "You mean in case they DON'T WANT TO WASTE TWO GD HOURS STANDING IN LINE WITH ILLEGALS????!!!!" The next time I went to get my renewal, the bitch at the counter was GONE!  I loathe the DMV & ALL whom work there. I use them in my anti-Govt mandated health care that the libtards seem to love.  For the record, TN has now rescinded its policy of handing out DL's to GD illegals. Seems they tend to get drunk & drive & don't carry insurance as mandated by law (and common sense)..................  |