We're going to the DMV today!
Isn't this what you wanted to do over your Spring Break? I know I did! I can't wait!
In January, my license expired and I had to renew it. No big deal. I found my way over there on a morning I didn't have any kidlets with me so I could wait in line without having to explain away the weirdos and miscreants who always seem to be there when I am.
The guy at the counter tippity typed up my name into the computer, then told me that there was a problem with my social security number.
Being the paranoid kook I am, I immediately assumed someone had stolen my ID and used it for some kind of illegal activity.
I asked the guy what was up, and he asked me if my name had changed.
Uh...yeah. Almost ten years ago.
So, even though I have renewed or replaced my license at least three times since I received it eighteen years ago, I now needed to get a new social security card to prove I am who I say I am.
Two trips, two weeks and an excavation into the basement "files" and I now have a new social security card with my "real" name on it.
Oh, and when I went in to apply for a new card, I couldn't use my driver's license for identification because it was expired.
I felt like at some point, I was going to cease existing.
The best part is that during all this running around, my plate sticker had expired by about a week.
I was driving around with an expired DL, an expired plate sticker and an invalid social security card.
Jim said that if I got pulled over, not only would they haul me off to jail, it would probably be Guantanamo Bay.
(I thought it would be funny to insert a funny little quip here about how I am "such a terrorist", but then decided that putting all the key words in this post together into a Google search would probably garner me a friendly visit from the FBI...oops, there I go with some more key words).
Luckily, I have a valid passport.
So, it's off to the DMV today, kids in tow.
Light a candle, say a prayer, or just send me some good mojo that the smelly, itchy-looking people aren't in line in back of me. I can only hold off the kiddy-stares for so long.
3 comments:
Wow, you hit the tri-fecta! I am amazed that you haven't been pulled over and been waterboarded.
Ah yes, the Illinois Secretary of State...what a wasteland. If only you'd owned a politically-connected driver education school you could've just paid 'extra' for your documentation and gotten it done instantly.
OMG, the picture that accompanies tis post is hilarious!!!
Good luck at the DMV today, I know that is the last place I ever want to go with the kids. There and the Social Security office to get a new SS card :)
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