A day at the DMV

[Zeb_Carter]

So, I had to get my DL. I mistakenly let my old one expire...long story.

Not only did I have to take the written test, but I had to, for the first time since 1966 take the driving test. Written test...aced it. Only one wrong...I guessed wrong on the fine for DUI. Like I know the fine for that!

So after the written test, they said they had a slot open for the driving test. Okay, I took the slot. Pull around to the lines. They said to get in the shortest line. Both lines were even, so I chose and not wisely. I was in line at 12:50. The young lady that was giving me my test got in my car at 2:10. I had to pee by then.

The driving test took 5 minutes. First was parallel parking. The last time I parallel parked was 1973 and I was in an APC. Part of the qualification ride when I was stationed in Korea and would need to drive an APC, 4 wheel version. Aced the parking bit. Forgot to signal when I pulled out, but there was no one around!

The next part took us on a tour of a subdivision behind the DPS facility. Right turns, left turns, blah, blah, blah. Passed.

Back at the facility I sat waiting in the car for them to bring me my temporary license. And waited. And waited. Seems they had lost my paperwork. Then, miracles of all miracles, they found it! I was off. Pulled around front and ran inside to pee! I really had to pee!

So all in all a fun day at the DMV/DPS facility. Fun, fun, fun.

Bottom line, I'm legal again. Yea!

*APC - Armored Personnel Carrier
*DPS - Department of Public Safty
*DMV - do I need to spell this one out?

 

[MSTarot]

The county I'm from has gone into bankruptcy. (Very long story but it does have a lot of people getting screwed in the ass so I guess it could count as porn.)

Went to get my license renewed at the main county court house, because of county cut backs it's the only place in the whole county you can go to get your picture taken.

The line for a car tag is six hours long. I am not exaggerating by a second.

The line to get your license renewed is three hours long.

When I was finally told what line I needed to be in (A matter of forty minutes waiting in the wrong one, there is no signs) to be looked at with envy that I'm in the line that will get me out in only three hours was sickening.

I renew my tag by mail, and I will not buy a new car in this county.

 

[PayDay]

So after the written test, they said they had a slot open for the driving test. Okay, I took the slot. Pull around to the lines. They said to get in the shortest line. Both lines were even, so I chose and not wisely. I was in line at 12:50. The young lady that was giving me my test got in my car at 2:10.

I find this part strangely erotic.....

IDK, maybe it's just me.

 

[johneb87]

I find this part strangely erotic.....

IDK, maybe it's just me.

Hehe, I thought so too. Hmm, plot bunny.

 

[HeyAll]

I recently got my driver's licensed renewed in California.

I made an appointment, which made things incredibly fast. The people who don't make an appointment have to wait in a line out the door, starting early in the morning. It was cold, which made the people who had to wait in line suffer even more.

Anyway, everything went smooth. I paid the fees and updated my info. Time to take a new picture.

The lady tells me to wait in Line A, the only problem was that camera was broken and there weren't any signs.

Me and a few others were waiting in Line A (with no one operating the machine), meanwhile Line B was long and busy.

Finally someone said something and it got corrected.

Moral of the story, expect the worst during each DMV visit.

 

[TxRad]

Just don't bring a case of beer along to help speed things up.

 

[patientlee]

*APC - Armored Personnel Carrier
*DPS - Department of Public Safty
*DMV - do I need to spell this one out?

Thanks for the guide to acronyms. My parents and grandmother had civilian jobs at an Air Force base. They talked in letters all the time. I never knew what was going on at the dinner table.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Florida did away with parallel parking test.

I stopped driving a few months ago but my license is good for many more years. They just want the money.

 

[glynndah]

I live in a little village. I have the choice of two fairly close DMV offices. One's in the town where I do all my errands, shopping, etc. The other's in the county seat. I always go to that one because the county's total population is only about five thousand people. I'm greeted by name, never stood in line or taken a number and have actually been apologized to when the process takes longer than usual.

 

[MSTarot]

I took my driving test rather later than most around here. If you don't have a car or money for one not much point in a license.

I took it in my mom's car near where she lives. The test was.

take a right turn, take a right turn, take a left turn, take a left turn, stop at the light, take a left turn, pull back into the parking lot and put it in park.

'You have just passed your driving test."

I kid you not.

 

[oggbashan]

My parents bought their first car in Gibraltar.

They were in their 50s and had never driven a car. There was only one driving instructor on Gibraltar, and only one driving examiner. He was both.

If he, as instructor, didn't think you were ready to take a driving test, he as examiner would fail you.

How? Part of the test was to do a three point turn. He always used the same dead end street that narrowed the further down you went. If you were ready to take the test he would ask you do do the three point turn at the beginning of the street where it was easy. If you weren't ready, he would ask you to turn where it was almost, but not quite, impossible.

My mother passed on her first attempt because she waited until she was told she was ready to take the test. My father was impatient and despite being told he wasn't ready, took the test and failed - three times.

But the instructor/examiner played fair. After the basic 20 lessons he would guarantee up to another 10 lessons free if you failed the test, and his fees were reasonable anyway. If you failed after 30 lessons, his normal advice was 'Forget it!'.

The first lesson on Gibraltar always included a hill start. It had to.

My mother was always a better driver than my father.

 

[Cruel2BKind]

So, I had to get my DL. I mistakenly let my old one expire...long story.

Not only did I have to take the written test, but I had to, for the first time since 1966 take the driving test. Written test...aced it. Only one wrong...I guessed wrong on the fine for DUI. Like I know the fine for that!

So after the written test, they said they had a slot open for the driving test. Okay, I took the slot. Pull around to the lines. They said to get in the shortest line. Both lines were even, so I chose and not wisely. I was in line at 12:50. The young lady that was giving me my test got in my car at 2:10. I had to pee by then.

The driving test took 5 minutes. First was parallel parking. The last time I parallel parked was 1973 and I was in an APC. Part of the qualification ride when I was stationed in Korea and would need to drive an APC, 4 wheel version. Aced the parking bit. Forgot to signal when I pulled out, but there was no one around!

The next part took us on a tour of a subdivision behind the DPS facility. Right turns, left turns, blah, blah, blah. Passed.

Back at the facility I sat waiting in the car for them to bring me my temporary license. And waited. And waited. Seems they had lost my paperwork. Then, miracles of all miracles, they found it! I was off. Pulled around front and ran inside to pee! I really had to pee!

So all in all a fun day at the DMV/DPS facility. Fun, fun, fun.

Bottom line, I'm legal again. Yea!

*APC - Armored Personnel Carrier
*DPS - Department of Public Safty
*DMV - do I need to spell this one out?

When I went in for my first drivers test (I finally got motivated a little late) I showed up at 6:10 AM, and got the test at 4:10 PM.

That's what happens when you show up without an appointment.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I took my driving test rather later than most around here. If you don't have a car or money for one not much point in a license.

I took it in my mom's car near where she lives. The test was.

take a right turn, take a right turn, take a left turn, take a left turn, stop at the light, take a left turn, pull back into the parking lot and put it in park.

'You have just passed your driving test."

I kid you not.

That was pretty close to what I did, except the parallel parking bit. She never told me to stop at stop signs or lights, just which corner to turn and which way.

Took all of five minutes. She down checked on some minor things, but that's because she wasn't paying attention when I did the things she claimed I didn't do. I passed, so there was no point in arguing.

As for the rest of the day at he DMV, the processing of paper work, I waited a total of five minutes to be called to a desk. The written test I just went to a computer and logged in using my shiny new drivers license number. The test took ten minutes. Once I finished the test I went to station 9 and waited for someone to check my results...they were at lunch. I waited ten minutes there, that's where they told me to wait until for the driving test.

 

[SamScribble]

Many, many years ago when my father’s younger brother was taking his driving test, things were going along pretty well until he came to a crossroads where there had been an accident that had blocked off most of the road. A policeman was standing in the middle of the road directing traffic around the obstruction. When it came to my uncle’s turn to pass through the narrowed space, he managed to run over the policeman’s foot. And for that little error, the examiner failed him.

 

[patientlee]

My husband's coworker's daughter just took her driving test. When she got to a stop sign, the examiner asked her what she should do next. She said that this is when she should check her text messages.

She failed. Thank god.

 

[glynndah]

My husband's coworker's daughter just took her driving test. When she got to a stop sign, the examiner asked her what she should do next. She said that this is when she should check her text messages.

She failed. Thank god.

She lives near me, doesn't she?

 

[BuckyDuckman]

We the wife and I moved back to Florida years ago, to get a Florida driver's license meant taking the driving test. The proctor walked out to my car and saw the hair still stuck the upholstery. "Cat or dog?" she asked.

"Cat," I said, having just moved our two cats 1000 miles.

"You pass," she said.

 

[JustaSCOUNDREL]

I recently renewed my 2 year expired drivers license. I delayed because I knew I could not pass the vision test. I had surgery which corrected my vision to 20/30. Off to the DMV I went. First thing was the vision test. The machine was broken so they moved me to one that worked and I passed. I got a number and a while later I had my picture taken them back to waiting some more. An hour later I had my renewed license. No other other tests.

When I get my first license they had a testing center in my small home town and they required me to parallel park. They used some kind of pylons and not real cars. I rode my bike to the place. Using my dad's tape measure I measured the distance between the pylons the the distance from the curb. I went home, using some scrap lumber my dad had I made my own pylons set out the same distances as the DMV had theirs set. I must have parked my dad's car a 100 times. When I took my driving test they had me pull up to the pylons. I backed in and as I started to turn the wheel to make the final maneuver the examiner told me to stop and I had passed. Damn, I thought, I could have passed that after my 5th try with my home made sticks.

Mike

 

[Tyro999]

Or the examiner had seen you taking the pylon measurements and then deduced that you had practiced a lot from the smoothness of your initial approach.

 

[JustaSCOUNDREL]

I'm sure they could have seen me as I was not trying to be secretive about what I was doing. I would prefer to believe it was strictly because of my superb parking skills.(LOL)

The car was a huge old boat of a car, a 1964 Buick Super 4 door sedan with a 3 speed manual transmission. It had been our family car until we had more money then became dad's back and forth to work car.

Mike

 

[Tyro999]

The car was a huge old boat of a car, a 1964 Buick Super 4 door sedan with a 3 speed manual transmission. It had been our family car until we had more money then became dad's back and forth to work car.

Mike

When my step-father got stationed in DC after two years in Hawaii, he consoled himself with the purchase of a new '59 Buick Century. The Buicks of those years all qualified for the description of "huge old boat of a car". That was the one I took my first driver test in. [In those days in VA you could take your driver's test at 15. 85% of the students in my high school managed to badger their parents into letting them. I was one of them.

 

[TE999]

I took my driving test at 16 in my dad's '55 Buick Century 4 dr sedan. He had trained me to parallel park using trash cans with brooms stuck in them. During my driving test I parallel parked that barge on my first try which impressed the hell out of the examiner. To this day I can still parallel park my truck on the first try should the need arise.