I went to the DMV today. I hate going to any DMV and this time doesn't break the mold. So this is how it went: I woke up up an 8 or so with the determination to go around the opening time which is at 9. Let's just say that I didn't make it over there till around 11. When I really don't want to go I'll come up with excuses and procrastinate by doing stupid little things. But I really needed to go. My license expired on June 21, my birthday of course, and I had been putting off for a long time. I ride my bike everywhere so I didn't see the need to hurrying in getting a new one. But I know it's an important piece of identification and I do drive occasionally. So I check the internet where it's at and I try to find out what I need to bring and what I need to do. All the DMV's or Secretary of State buildings that I've been to have been government buildings. I drove around a little bit looking for such a building but I came to find that there were strangely a lot a cars parked at one end of a strip mall. Yeah, they put the dmv in a strip mall. Weird. I walk in and there's a line of course and just a few seconds after I get in line a lady who works there came up to me and asked if I had all the documents I needed, i showed her what I had, and she tells me that I need another form of ID. I had my other drivers license and my passport which I though would be sufficient but I had to go home and get an old student ID card to prove who I was. The drive there and back sucked. I just wanted the whole thing over with as soon as possible, and the more time that I spent driving the more time I could have been in line widdling it down. So i get back in line and wait more that two hours or so till I get to the front of the line. And when it was my turn to get helped I felt like I had been on a journey and I looked around at all the other people still in line, they were looking back at me with some jealousy, and I was happy for a second.
One thing about dmv's that I don't like is that no one is happy to be there, that is till the get to the front of the line. No on likes to go, the people working there have to deal with people who have been waiting hours to see them, so the employees morale isn't that high, and what gets done there is all just a formality to what people do everyday of their lives. It's all lame.
Something weird that I should have noticed a long time ago but hadn't was that my birth date on my old drivers license off by a few days. I found this out when I went to open a checking account at a bank and they where taking in my info and the license wasn't congruent with a form I filled out. Here at the this dmv they made a little stink about it. I ended up waiting a while till they could confirm the right date of my glorious birth. The lady was a little bitchy too. I got a terrible picture taken for my little driving card and I was on my way.
To try to cheer me up I stopped at a deli that I love. It's called Dimo's. If you haven't tried it, go! They're only open for lunch and they're on E. Stadium. The food is great and you get a ton of it. I ate half for lunch and the rest I had for dinner. It's run by a family from New York so you get that demanding New York attitude with your sandwich. It adds character to the place. I highly recommend going.
Once again I did my ride to Dexter to get my frustration out and I had a near death experience (nde). It happened on my way back to Ann Arbor on Dexter road just in sight of the Maple traffic light (near the dmv, might I add) and some idiot coming from the opposite direction was making a left turn. He first veered into the other lane of the two lane road before completing his turn and just before he turned all the way in he sees me and slams on his breaks. Good thing too cause he would've ran me over. This was a lot like the accident I had a year ago. Stupid drivers. Just look where you're going. I know most of you don't think of looking for cyclists but just try to, please.
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