February 10, 2006
While I was digging out my Starbucks card to pay for my latte this morning, I happened to glance down at my driver's license. Whoops, it expired on my birthday....a week ago.
Well, no problemo, the DMV is across the street, I'll just pop over there and renew. After waiting for 45 minutes, my number is finally called and I go up to the counter. Apparently, the state I've lived in my entire life feels the need to verify my social security number, can they see my card please.
Uh, no, I never replaced it from when I lost my wallet a year or so ago. I'm told to go to the social security office. Just to cover all bases, I grab my birth certificate, my passport and anything else I can find. I go back to the happy friendly DMV and I'm told, no dice, they need the actual card.
Ok, fine. I go to the social security office because I have nothing but time and unlimited gasoline to burn (*sniff sniff* was that sarcasm?). I fill out the requisite paperwork and wait, again.
My number is called and I'm told it will be around two weeks before I get my social security card. There is no way to speed up the process.
So for those of you who want to know if I have a wild side, guess what? I'm breaking the law, driving on an expired license until I can get the required paperwork to renew my license.
The worst part of all this? I seem to remember getting a form in the mail allowing me to renew either by mail or internet. It is nowhere to be found and if I had just renewed when I had recieved this, I wouldn't have to jump through all these hoops.
And if you are keeping score, the albuterol/orapred rage has kicked in for Becca and I got a call from her preschool saying school was cancelled today. Apparently the entire school has the flu. You have to admire the consideration they show by cancelling.
Let's hope I don't get pulled over in the next two weeks or so. I don't feel like trying to explain this all over again.
Well, no problemo, the DMV is across the street, I'll just pop over there and renew. After waiting for 45 minutes, my number is finally called and I go up to the counter. Apparently, the state I've lived in my entire life feels the need to verify my social security number, can they see my card please.
Uh, no, I never replaced it from when I lost my wallet a year or so ago. I'm told to go to the social security office. Just to cover all bases, I grab my birth certificate, my passport and anything else I can find. I go back to the happy friendly DMV and I'm told, no dice, they need the actual card.
Ok, fine. I go to the social security office because I have nothing but time and unlimited gasoline to burn (*sniff sniff* was that sarcasm?). I fill out the requisite paperwork and wait, again.
My number is called and I'm told it will be around two weeks before I get my social security card. There is no way to speed up the process.
So for those of you who want to know if I have a wild side, guess what? I'm breaking the law, driving on an expired license until I can get the required paperwork to renew my license.
The worst part of all this? I seem to remember getting a form in the mail allowing me to renew either by mail or internet. It is nowhere to be found and if I had just renewed when I had recieved this, I wouldn't have to jump through all these hoops.
And if you are keeping score, the albuterol/orapred rage has kicked in for Becca and I got a call from her preschool saying school was cancelled today. Apparently the entire school has the flu. You have to admire the consideration they show by cancelling.
Let's hope I don't get pulled over in the next two weeks or so. I don't feel like trying to explain this all over again.