Yay! I can (still) drive!
Oct. 2nd, 2003 10:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
terryclothHad to renew my driver's licence today (or, well, sometime in the next two weeks), so I stopped by the Department of Motor Vehicles before work. I got there around 9. The sign said it opened at 8:30. It was closed.
Further examination revealed that it opened on 9:30 on Thursdays only, but I'd brought my game boy, and at least got a good place in the line-up that was already forming. I was the third one there, and ended up fourth in line after a woman in a great hurry and with either (a) the ability to render herself invisible or (b) the ability to lie convincingly took second place. The guy at the front of the line vouched for her -- obviously she'd paid him off.
Once the place actually opened it was reasonably efficient. Well, if you let it be. Line-cutter lady chatted with the guy behind the counter for a few minutes, and ended up fifth in line to get her picture taken. She asked to cut ahead of us, but... well, that wasn't within our power. They called us by name.
Anyway, I somehow passed the eye test despite not being able to read the letters, and now I don't have to go through that again until 2008, by which time I should have new cybernetic eyes, or possibly the ability to teleport at will.
One more thing not to worry about, unless they manage to lose the new license in the mail or something.
Further examination revealed that it opened on 9:30 on Thursdays only, but I'd brought my game boy, and at least got a good place in the line-up that was already forming. I was the third one there, and ended up fourth in line after a woman in a great hurry and with either (a) the ability to render herself invisible or (b) the ability to lie convincingly took second place. The guy at the front of the line vouched for her -- obviously she'd paid him off.
Once the place actually opened it was reasonably efficient. Well, if you let it be. Line-cutter lady chatted with the guy behind the counter for a few minutes, and ended up fifth in line to get her picture taken. She asked to cut ahead of us, but... well, that wasn't within our power. They called us by name.
Anyway, I somehow passed the eye test despite not being able to read the letters, and now I don't have to go through that again until 2008, by which time I should have new cybernetic eyes, or possibly the ability to teleport at will.
One more thing not to worry about, unless they manage to lose the new license in the mail or something.
