Saturday, October 1, 2005

The DMV SUX Ya'll! (So What Else Is New?)

Last Saturday I went to the DMV to get license plates for the Cruiser since I'm still driving around with Florida plates. After filling out all the paperwork and waiting patiently in line for twenty minutes (which was REALLY quick for that place, I know) I was told that I could NOT file my registration until Jason signed his name as well, since his name was also on the title.

Fine.

I didn't really want to go there with Ava or Juli so I waited until today to go back. Once again, I had all the paperwork filled out, complete with Jason's signature and a check made out for $143.00 like they told me to do. They are open from 8am until noon on Saturdays so after Juliana's soccer game was over at 11, I popped over there to finally take care of everything. At 11:30 I walked in the door and looked to take a number but didn't see any. There was one woman sitting at a computer doing nothing so I went up and asked her where the numbers were.

DMV Woman: "Ohhhh. It looks like there aren't anymore," she said and proceeded to stare at me.

Me: "Okay... Well can you help me get my license plates? I have everything filled out and ready to go."

DMV Woman:" Well, we're all done doing that for today. You can take it to the currency exchange and have it done there if you want."

Me: "Uhhh, aren't you open until noon? Can't I take care of it here?"

DMV Woman: "No. We're all done doing those today." she says SITTING IN FRONT OF HER COMPUTER WITH NOTHING ELSE TO DO A FULL HALF HOUR BEFORE THEY WERE SCHEDULED TO CLOSE.

I'm usually very nice to people who work in any kind of service industry because frankly I think it must be a pretty sucktastic job but I have to say that after making two attempts to have this fairly simple task taken care of and being shot down TWICE that I did in fact storm out of there. And I took the two pens I had in my hand with me.

Yes, I said TWO pens. So there.

*Side note: This all happened after we spent the early morning drving around Bartlett trying to figure out which gymnasium Juliana's soccer team was having their photos taken at since nobody bothered to tell me that Schrade Gym wasn't the gym at the school where every single game is being played. Apparently I am not as a good a Soccer Mom as all the other moms on the team since every other person knew exactly where to go Oh, and we missed the team photo by literally THIRTY SECONDS. They wanted to retake it once we got there but one other girl on the team had just left as we were coming in the door.

Juli still got her individual photo taken but I have to say I was heartbroken about missing the team shot. Thirty seconds. Grrrrrr.




1 comment:

  1. I have experiences like that all the time at the post office unless I go to the Kilburn branch (those people are GREAT). Government jobs are really secure, so I guess it must be nice to be a slacker and still get nice benefits. Blah.

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