quote:If you haven't had your personal taste of hell.... try making a visit to the California Dept. of Motor Vehicles!
Hahahahahaha! Try going to one down here! It's an experience for sure. I thought I'd stepped into another dimension. 3 hours I sat and waited to get my driver's license renewed. I'd rather have surgery done without anesthesia instead of ever doing that again.
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“Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.” AA Milne Posts: 3723 | From: Folsom, CA | Registered: Dec 2001
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I guess there ARE advantages to living in rural Canada!!!!
Had to get both my drivers licence/w photo AND my Ontario Health card/w photo renewed in the same week recently.
In both cases I was in and out within 10 minutes AND the bonus was that I got to deal with people who spoke English as their first language!! It was wonderful.
NOW...I just hope my passport renewal goes as smoothly...
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wow. we renew our DL's here via mail. Send them a check get a sticker .. your done
Ahhhh the pleasures of living in the South
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We renew here by mail as well. We move so often that my address on my license was from 3 houses ago and they sent the renewal notice there. By the time I noticed that it was expired I had to go in person. Plus I was leaving for a trip the next day and was going to be driving over 1200 miles. Not a good time to have an expired license.
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“Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.” AA Milne Posts: 3723 | From: Folsom, CA | Registered: Dec 2001
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Ahhh..BUT Curtis...Waaay up here we need the photo ID on our cards. Kinda tough to take yer picture via mail.
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You have to renew your driver's licenses?!?!?
Not in good ol' AZ.. well, not until you turn 65, which for me is the year 2041. The sad part is, people here complain that driver's licenses cost $25. Gee... $25 for a virtually "lifetime" license, or $10 every 3rd year in MO.. hmmm.. I just wonder what's gonna happen when I'm 64 years old carrying a driver's license with a photo of someone that no longer even looks like me.
We also have no safety or emmissions checks so auto registration can be done by mail and even on Arizona's website. Trailer license plates are permanent here too. In fact, one of my plates was recently stolen right in front of my house (a common occurrance here because the plates are good for life) and in 5 minutes, $2, no red tape and no questions asked later, I was back in biz with a new plate.
Granted, I know it won't be this way forever because AZ is basically using California as its guidelines for everything.
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We have photos as well. They just keep putting the same photo on it when you renew by mail. They have it in their computer.
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“Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.” AA Milne Posts: 3723 | From: Folsom, CA | Registered: Dec 2001
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Geesh, we are getting ripped off here in New Hampshire by the sounds of it!
I just renewed my license, $85 bucks! That's for a CDL-A with hazardous materials, tank & motorcycle endorsements. And the bonus part, every 2 years I get to renew my hazardous materials endorsement via a written test for a mere $10.00 (pass or fail) My only complaint is the duration, every 2 years? Why not every time your license is renewed??? (the test has been the same the last 3 times I have taken it, so it's not like it changes)
But what a deal, it was good for 4 years, they just went to 5 years.
-------------------- Mike Berry New England Posts: 534 | From: New England | Registered: Jan 2002
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Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that alot (NOT ALL) of the people calling late or on weekends are the "lack of planning" types? Not that I'm the model of efficiency, but I've got enough of my own problems to deal with, I don't need their's added.
I really agree with some of the comments made regarding origin of manufacture, but gee, say no more, that might be (GASP!) political.
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Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what's for lunch, Benjamin Franklin Posts: 2057 | From: 1033 W. Union Valley Rd. | Registered: Feb 2003
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quote:Originally posted by Cam Bortz: Ah, Stephen, ye know me all too well... actually I spent most of the day out put-putting around on the new (actually quite old) Norton Commando, so had to work a bit late to catch up. And having indulged myself with a rant and a couple of lagers, I went home, not Walmart. Just couldn't face it. What I needed, I got this morning at the local.
Grandpa didn't need a hardware store. When he needed a woodscrew, he dug ore from the pit, smelted some iron, and forged it himself. I used to do that until the government said I couldn't dig my own iron ore anymore, thus turning me into a spoiled child dependent on shopkeepers.
Aw c'mon mate that was a bit tame you understand the english sense of humour all too well thats the problem glad your feeling in a better mood, btw just bought a ten year old Trident 750 and am hooning around the country on it, hey heres a nice website for you Triumph Rat
-------------------- Steve Broughton Alpha Grafix Signs Lowfields Road Benington, Boston Lincolnshire, England Posts: 315 | From: Boston, Lincolnshire, England | Registered: Aug 2001
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quote: I just wonder what's gonna happen when I'm 64 years old carrying a driver's license with a photo of someone that no longer even looks like me.
As a part time bouncer, I can't even begin to tell you how ridiculous some of the drivers licenses are in that respect.
Vermont is now issuing non-photo licenses. My partner and I request their old photo license and check the numbers to verify they are legit.
Massachusetts is no longer notifying in advance when you have to renew your licenses. These days, they are issuing temporary ones, printed on paper that no one accepts as a valid identification. There are no state seals, watermarks, photos, or any descernable marks to validate them with. I've had several instances where a person who was issued their license at age 17 is now turning 21 comes in on their birthday and presents both this kind and their prior license. Here's the catch... The original license becomes invalid as identification the morning of their birthday, by law, not at the end of the day as most people assume. The temporary renewal license is not accepted by any of the bars in the area as they are very easily forgeable. I spend a few nights a year at the door with groups taking out a friend for a happy birthday and telling them "Sorry, you can't celebrate it here." as a result.
The Arizona licenses are not a problem...yet. But bouncers all agree that they are going to be in years to come.
Rapid
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I like my paint shaken, not stirred. Posts: 5648 | From: North Haverhill, New Hampshire | Registered: Apr 2003
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. . .Only had time to "sped-red" a few of these replies to your post Cam. If these ideas have already been touched on, consider it reiterating the thought.
As a person chock full of 'onions' I must give you my take on Wal-Mart (also known as "Wah-Mark" here in Lil' Africa by the natives and hill-billys)
Yes, I DO make purchases there for things I neede'nt pay too much for at McRea's and for things that are too cheesey at Dollar general.
But I really ABHOR Wal-Mart and resent having to walk the distance if a football feild to purchase different items that they have "strategically" placed around the perimeter of the store.
For this reason, I will got to some drug-store chain, or a conveinience store and pay $3-$5 MORE for something JUST to avoid Wal-Mart.
I feel that time is money and the time I would have wasted traversing the vast tundra, even if it WOULD be good exercise, is still wasted time. . . not to mention seeing and having to speak/chit-chat/visit all the people you know when you "run in" there. It's just not financially feasable for a freindly, popular person like myself, (lol) to take these kind of long term safaries.
When I find that I will HAVE TO go there, I go like about 3am. when no one I know will be there and if they are, they're thinkin' just like me, so we nod hello and quietly MOVE ON.
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"Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man, work like a dog" Posts: 5758 | From: "Sweet Home" Alabama | Registered: Mar 2003
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you understand the english sense of humour all too well thats the problem ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
glad your feeling in a better mood, btw just bought a ten year old Trident 750 and am hooning around the country on it, hey heres a nice website for you 
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