So back home in MN we take the DMV for granted. In the Mankato metro to LeCenter you show up tell 'em you need a new I.D. or to take the test they tell you when you can and when you'll get it.
When I was up in the Twin Cities I remember a mini-fiasco where we had to go to two different area's of the Henn. Co. building, but it only took an hour.
Here, they've got it all bass ackwards. I show up to the DMV wearing bells, all excited I get my first out of home state I.D. because by their standards I've been driving illegally for 7 months. I show up tell the guy at the desk my story. He gives me an application and tells me my number is #74, so I fill it out and wait, for about 30 minutes.
My number is called and I go to the guy at the desk who makes sure I dotted my "i's" and crossed my "t's" and that they already have me on record. Odd, no biggie I guess. I give him my $5 for the application. I had to pay just to submit an application, not too out of the ordinary. He then tells me to put my application in a slot by the testing area and they'll call my name.
Hella minutes pass and they call my name, in I go to take the test. Some odd time later I pass with a 90%, only three wrong- w00+!! I wait again for the guy to check my eyes and literacy and weather or not I could here him.
More time passes and I get my picture taken and my digital signature which looks nothing like mine. Even more time passes for them to print it out and give it to me.
This I.D. looks like a project I did when I was 4. It looks like an example taken from "Counterfit your I.D. 101" When I go back to MN I already know I won't ever be served alcohol, I won't be able to get into any strip clubs, I won't even be able to get a cup of coffe this I.D. looks so fake.
So from just after 10a.m. until about 12:30 I sat at the DMV. I know understand all of those jokes with "So I was at the DMV, Long lines......" They're still not funny, nor will they ever be. I'm glad it's done.
Now to get my car smogged without Tommy Chong. Then my car will be an Oregonian resident- my move here will be complete.
When I was up in the Twin Cities I remember a mini-fiasco where we had to go to two different area's of the Henn. Co. building, but it only took an hour.
Here, they've got it all bass ackwards. I show up to the DMV wearing bells, all excited I get my first out of home state I.D. because by their standards I've been driving illegally for 7 months. I show up tell the guy at the desk my story. He gives me an application and tells me my number is #74, so I fill it out and wait, for about 30 minutes.
My number is called and I go to the guy at the desk who makes sure I dotted my "i's" and crossed my "t's" and that they already have me on record. Odd, no biggie I guess. I give him my $5 for the application. I had to pay just to submit an application, not too out of the ordinary. He then tells me to put my application in a slot by the testing area and they'll call my name.
Hella minutes pass and they call my name, in I go to take the test. Some odd time later I pass with a 90%, only three wrong- w00+!! I wait again for the guy to check my eyes and literacy and weather or not I could here him.
More time passes and I get my picture taken and my digital signature which looks nothing like mine. Even more time passes for them to print it out and give it to me.
This I.D. looks like a project I did when I was 4. It looks like an example taken from "Counterfit your I.D. 101" When I go back to MN I already know I won't ever be served alcohol, I won't be able to get into any strip clubs, I won't even be able to get a cup of coffe this I.D. looks so fake.
So from just after 10a.m. until about 12:30 I sat at the DMV. I know understand all of those jokes with "So I was at the DMV, Long lines......" They're still not funny, nor will they ever be. I'm glad it's done.
Now to get my car smogged without Tommy Chong. Then my car will be an Oregonian resident- my move here will be complete.