DammitJanet
Well-Known Member
I got Billy to clean out my car so we could go make the attempt to get him his Drivers License. As most of you know this is a humongous step. Giant. So we leave at about noon.
We get down there and it is packed to the gills and he gets in line. Our DMV is this little old building with no waiting area and curt, snappy employee's who think they are just too good to interact with the public. There is no place for anyone to sit and no public restroom. If you are waiting for someone inside, you just might as well wait in your car in the hot sun or freezing cold. There is no room in the building.
So Billy gets in there around 12:20 or so. At first I started standing outside under a tree. I stay there until maybe 12:40 when I just cant stand anymore so I go sit in my car and turn the AC on. I sit until 1:30 when I go in to see where he is. He is just getting to the front of the line to take his written test! OMG! Ok...I go back to my car. I sit there another 15 minutes and out he comes. Oh good I think...
Oh no! The driving examiner comes out to my car, examines my registration, then points to my inspection sticker and announces "your inspection is expired!"
HUH? I look and said "How can that be? I had it inspected last July? Shouldnt I be good until this JULY?"
Well we all stood and stared at my sticker because it did, in fact, say JUNE! How this happened no one knows because I bought the car in July, got my tags in August as a NEW car. It was inspected when I bought it. It should always be inspected in July but this stupid inspection place I used last year hoovered up and only did my inspection for 11 months. I never realized it.
So...Billy couldnt do the driving portion of his test until I got my inspection done. So we raced over to a place to do the inspection. Ok...I found a place that wasnt busy. But when we got there, I couldnt find my registration! All I could find my LAST years registration even though I had just had my registration out to show this driving lady...or so I thought.
Evidently I have been showing everyone my 2008 registration and NO ONE has noticed it ever. My 2009 registration was tucked neatly and untouched in an envelope in the little black zippered notebook that comes with new cars!
You cannot imagine how many times I have gone on to a certain military base that prides themselves on security...lol. They have never noticed that I was handing them an out of date registration.
Anyway...we went back to DMV but they were so crowded we would have never got in before they stopped giving the test so we will go back and try in the morning.
Sigh.
We get down there and it is packed to the gills and he gets in line. Our DMV is this little old building with no waiting area and curt, snappy employee's who think they are just too good to interact with the public. There is no place for anyone to sit and no public restroom. If you are waiting for someone inside, you just might as well wait in your car in the hot sun or freezing cold. There is no room in the building.
So Billy gets in there around 12:20 or so. At first I started standing outside under a tree. I stay there until maybe 12:40 when I just cant stand anymore so I go sit in my car and turn the AC on. I sit until 1:30 when I go in to see where he is. He is just getting to the front of the line to take his written test! OMG! Ok...I go back to my car. I sit there another 15 minutes and out he comes. Oh good I think...
Oh no! The driving examiner comes out to my car, examines my registration, then points to my inspection sticker and announces "your inspection is expired!"
HUH? I look and said "How can that be? I had it inspected last July? Shouldnt I be good until this JULY?"
Well we all stood and stared at my sticker because it did, in fact, say JUNE! How this happened no one knows because I bought the car in July, got my tags in August as a NEW car. It was inspected when I bought it. It should always be inspected in July but this stupid inspection place I used last year hoovered up and only did my inspection for 11 months. I never realized it.
So...Billy couldnt do the driving portion of his test until I got my inspection done. So we raced over to a place to do the inspection. Ok...I found a place that wasnt busy. But when we got there, I couldnt find my registration! All I could find my LAST years registration even though I had just had my registration out to show this driving lady...or so I thought.
Evidently I have been showing everyone my 2008 registration and NO ONE has noticed it ever. My 2009 registration was tucked neatly and untouched in an envelope in the little black zippered notebook that comes with new cars!
You cannot imagine how many times I have gone on to a certain military base that prides themselves on security...lol. They have never noticed that I was handing them an out of date registration.
Anyway...we went back to DMV but they were so crowded we would have never got in before they stopped giving the test so we will go back and try in the morning.
Sigh.