Saturday, June 6, 2009
the worst thing about turning 40
While having a birthday is always better than the alternative, your 40th birthday is a day of mixed emotions. One might think that a receding hairline, expanding waste line, imminent poking and prodding from the doctor, or the reality that you are officially too old for the "young" couples class at your church would ruin your day. But nothing is quite as painful as having to spend an afternoon at the DMV. Happy Birthday; now give us $32 for your license renewal and sit and wait an inordinate amount of time. I don't like the person that created the Division of Motor Vehicles. They could at least require you to renew 6 months before or after your birthday....
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Or, you could be pregnant and on bedrest when it expires. Then, when you try to renew it, you are told that you can't without your birth certificate. You try to get your birth certificate from Vital Records in Richmond, but are told they are having a backlog due to the new national security laws and need to hire more people to handle all of the requests. Lengthy wait for BC and a few more hoops = a valid driver's license after a 2 hour wait in a DMV office with stinky, grumpy people. One of those decides YOU look like someone who wants to listen to his angry, but sometimes humorous tirade about the DMV, the state, the country and world affairs. I soooo dread the next go around with DMV. Clint did take me out to eat afterwards though. :-D
Tommy,
Any government operated or owned enterprise is by definition going to be poorly run. There is no incentive for the employees to be productive. Just the opposite, their hours will not be cut if there is a backup of citizens who need the service. So not being productive is job security.
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