Reflections

Recently (on 3/29/04) I spent some time at the DMV, renewing my drivers license. Well they have a new way of issueing licenses now... You go there spent an hour or more standing in line. You go through the same process that its always been but at the end after they take the worst picture of you ever, when they USED TO hand you your new license they tell you that it will come to you in the mail in 7 - 10 days.

So it has been longer than 7 - 10 days for me its been more like 24 days. And the proof of renewal form that they give you is only good for 30 days. So I go in there today and wait in line for 15 or so minutes and when I get up to the girl behind the desk and tell her what going on she takes me over to the camera area and looks in one of those expanding file things and doesn't find it! She then tells me to come back a few days before the proof thing expires, because (get this) sometimes the post office loses it, or it gets sent back to them...

So in order to get my drivers license I have to wait for it to come in the mail and so far make 2 trips down there to the DMV and wait in lines...

AND SOMEHOW THIS WAY IS BETTER THAN THEM JUST HANDING IT TO YOU ON YOUR FIRST VISIT!!!

And... Not only did the cost of renewing go up 60 cents but someone has to pay for the postal service to mail it to you... Go figure...