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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 437951" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>THIS kind of thing - Sue's and Star's experiences - are why I literally have panic attacks if I have to go to the DMV. NOT joking. Even when I hadn't taken xanax in three years I had to get an rx for two pills because I had a panic attack as I walked in the door of the DMV here. Why? The DMV in OH was so bad and SOOOOOOOO abusive to me that I just couldn't cope. I don't often get upset with businesses and have it get that bad. But the IDIOT state of OH gave my social security number to a guy in Columbus who had a car similar to one I bought. Same maker, different model, mine was a green sedan, his was a gray two seater, but I ended up paying a FORTUNE in atty fees and then paying off his five tickets anyway because otherwise? I had no driver's license!!!!!! I could not transfer the title to our car into my name when we bought it. HAD to go into husband's name because my name was all tied up because they gave this jerk MY SSN. Not even a letter from Social Security - with some seal of theirs AND a notary signature sent straight from the SS office to the DMV was good enough. </p><p></p><p>That took almsot a year to fix.</p><p></p><p>THEN we hit Sept 9, 1999. THAT was the REAL bugaboo, not Y2K. See, in many computer programs 9999 was a delete code. The idiots in OH DMV entered my birthday as 9999. It was formatted to read 9-9-99 but they were SUPPOSED to type in those dashes. They were too lazy and then when the date turned to 9-9-99, my 30th birthday, they ERASED my entire file. ALL records had been transferred from OK and those were all erased. So I HAD a physical driver's license. That I got from the DMV after enduring panic attacks, etc... I got pulled over for a busted taillight (hey, it was Cincy where the potholes breed at night like rabbits) and when they ran my license they made me get out of the car, handcuffed me, patted me down and made me go into the jail in a holding cell!! ALL they could find looking up the license number was nothing. ALl they cuold find with my SSn was the other guy. The one I paid a fortune to have given a different number. BUt now I was an identity thief.</p><p></p><p>It cost a fortune again, that we did NOT have, I had to go to court six times, each time the judge couldn't ifgure out what my deal was. Finally he had to have an officer give me a ticket for a moving violation I DID NOT DO so that they could put me into a program for people that had driver's license problems. Then I got two trips downtown to talk to someone who handled that and another court date to dismiss the ticket and make sure I had a license.</p><p></p><p>Then we moved back to OK. I was pulled over and GUESS WHAT?????? My physical license from the state of OH, the one I paid HUGe sums of money and hours in court and even 6 hrs in a holding cell over, did not show up in the system. I completely freaked on the poor officer. I was hysterical. He actually called for an ambulance but cancelled it because none were available because a big accident and by the time they were I was calm again. He let me put the car into a parking lot and call to get a ride home. He was supposed to cuff me and take me downtown but said taht NO ONE could fake my reaction and he believed me. He said it would be a lot easier to just take my birth cert, soc security card and marriage license and go down to take the tests again and get a license that way.</p><p></p><p>He was right. It cost me under $30 and I got a license. </p><p></p><p>But husband does ALL the DMV stuff now except renewing my license. </p><p></p><p>I TOTALLY know how you hate bureaucracy. ME TOO!!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 437951, member: 1233"] THIS kind of thing - Sue's and Star's experiences - are why I literally have panic attacks if I have to go to the DMV. NOT joking. Even when I hadn't taken xanax in three years I had to get an rx for two pills because I had a panic attack as I walked in the door of the DMV here. Why? The DMV in OH was so bad and SOOOOOOOO abusive to me that I just couldn't cope. I don't often get upset with businesses and have it get that bad. But the IDIOT state of OH gave my social security number to a guy in Columbus who had a car similar to one I bought. Same maker, different model, mine was a green sedan, his was a gray two seater, but I ended up paying a FORTUNE in atty fees and then paying off his five tickets anyway because otherwise? I had no driver's license!!!!!! I could not transfer the title to our car into my name when we bought it. HAD to go into husband's name because my name was all tied up because they gave this jerk MY SSN. Not even a letter from Social Security - with some seal of theirs AND a notary signature sent straight from the SS office to the DMV was good enough. That took almsot a year to fix. THEN we hit Sept 9, 1999. THAT was the REAL bugaboo, not Y2K. See, in many computer programs 9999 was a delete code. The idiots in OH DMV entered my birthday as 9999. It was formatted to read 9-9-99 but they were SUPPOSED to type in those dashes. They were too lazy and then when the date turned to 9-9-99, my 30th birthday, they ERASED my entire file. ALL records had been transferred from OK and those were all erased. So I HAD a physical driver's license. That I got from the DMV after enduring panic attacks, etc... I got pulled over for a busted taillight (hey, it was Cincy where the potholes breed at night like rabbits) and when they ran my license they made me get out of the car, handcuffed me, patted me down and made me go into the jail in a holding cell!! ALL they could find looking up the license number was nothing. ALl they cuold find with my SSn was the other guy. The one I paid a fortune to have given a different number. BUt now I was an identity thief. It cost a fortune again, that we did NOT have, I had to go to court six times, each time the judge couldn't ifgure out what my deal was. Finally he had to have an officer give me a ticket for a moving violation I DID NOT DO so that they could put me into a program for people that had driver's license problems. Then I got two trips downtown to talk to someone who handled that and another court date to dismiss the ticket and make sure I had a license. Then we moved back to OK. I was pulled over and GUESS WHAT?????? My physical license from the state of OH, the one I paid HUGe sums of money and hours in court and even 6 hrs in a holding cell over, did not show up in the system. I completely freaked on the poor officer. I was hysterical. He actually called for an ambulance but cancelled it because none were available because a big accident and by the time they were I was calm again. He let me put the car into a parking lot and call to get a ride home. He was supposed to cuff me and take me downtown but said taht NO ONE could fake my reaction and he believed me. He said it would be a lot easier to just take my birth cert, soc security card and marriage license and go down to take the tests again and get a license that way. He was right. It cost me under $30 and I got a license. But husband does ALL the DMV stuff now except renewing my license. I TOTALLY know how you hate bureaucracy. ME TOO!!! [/QUOTE]
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