05/16/2007 20:08
Welcome To Hell.. Please take a number....
Thank goodness today is over and done with! I took my mom to the DMV to have her license reinstated and we were there from 10:00 a.m. to 2:30. It took 4 and a half hours to do 5 minutes worth of paper work and about 2 minutes to pay and 1 minute to have a pic taken.
I can not believe how stupid they have got it set up there. When you first walk in you have to wait in line so you can get a number on a piece of paper. Sounds easy enough right? Wrong, she was the 10th person in the "get a number" line and it took 1 hour and 20 minutes just to get the number.. Why in Gods name would it take that long?..
Well they don't give out the numbers unless they have "X" amount of people in line, which turns out to be 50 freakin' people!!!!!!! So they make everybody wait instead of just taking the next person in line and moving things along... I don't get it.. Then after she gets the ticket she fills out the paper and then she waits for her number to be called.. We waited for 2 hours (total time there so far- 3 hours and 20 minutes) Then after the 2 hour wait her number is called and she hands the woman her paper and starts to pay her, then the woman says she doesn't do payments and hands her another ticket with a new number on it, then she has to wait for that number to be called before she can pay someone else in another line. Then once that number is called she can go pay for them then she gets a new number to have her pic taken... I swear to God they must have hired the person who runs that DMV center with the application filled out in crayon, I'm no rocket scientists but I do have common sense and NO ONE there had any intelligence that I could see. I wanted to choke whoever made up all that red tape BS! I was so annoyed by the time we left there I was chain smoking on the way home. Total time she interacted with actual people today at the DMV less than 8 minutes for every single thing she had done, and to beat it all there were people there who got there like 2 hours after us, who left in a matter of minutes having taken the test, paid for a renewal, change of address etc... It makes me sick to my stomach knowing that these kind of people are the ones making decisions for me and you in our local and even federal government. No common sense what so ever.
Then once that number is called she can go pay for them then she gets a new number to have her pic taken... I swear to God they must have hired the person who runs that DMV center with the application filled out in crayon, I'm no rocket scientists but I do have common sense and NO ONE there had any intelligence that I could see. I wanted to choke whoever made up all that red tape BS! I was so annoyed by the time we left there I was chain smoking on the way home. Total time she interacted with actual people today at the DMV less than 8 minutes for every single thing she had done, and to beat it all there were people there who got there like 2 hours after us, who left in a matter of minutes having taken the test, paid for a renewal, change of address etc... It makes me sick to my stomach knowing that these kind of people are the ones making decisions for me and you in our local and even federal government. No common sense what so ever.When we finally did get home I almost had a binge because I was so annoyed and starving. But instead of binging like I wanted to- I just grabbed a Lean Cuisine and threw it in the microwave and got a wheat roll and Diet Coke and went to my room ate and laid down for an hour until my head stopped pounding. Her license doesn't expire until 2012 and next time hopefully she wont get a ticket and have them suspended and we can renew them online without having do deal with those idiots!
Ok, since I'm in such a good mood I'm gonna split. I really, hope you all had a much, much better day than me, my mom and my son- who by the way said he didn't want his learners permit if he had to go through that. (LOL) Smart kid! Oh, he also asked me "Where's the sign that says "Welcome to hell?"
He has mine and my husbands' cheery outlook. LOL 
Have a great night, see ya on the flip side!
~Tink~