Stood in line, waited in a chair, sniffed the body odor of about forty five people, listened to over a dozen babies crying, watched a new mom overburp a baby and wear the results, smelled that, caught a cancerous old woman who had fallen asleep and was toppling out of her chair (I didn't want to hear her cry, too), stood in a shorter line, paid the pretty lady (enjoyed that part) and was rewarded a renewed car registration. I'm a little OD'ed on Life.
... and extremely disgusted with the working pace of people employed by the state.
(I can't believe the fucking typos I made)
That is almost exactly what I did yesterday, but I had to get my car inspected first.
It took me over an hour and I had a six year old autie, having a rough day, in-tow. She was making several people laugh by intelligently questioning the complexity of the process. She severely ripped apart the whole stand-in-line-for-your-chance-to-tell-them-you-will-sit-in-a-chair-and-wait routine, in a very cute, but impatient way. Entertaining her questions was really the only thing that saved me.
I did it while my daughter was in school, thank goodness. We take a number at the car registration place, then we can sit in a chair or whatever, but we have to listen closely for our number or they will skip over us.
Your daughter is lucky.
I was actually enjoying her company, once my daughter (and I) had identified all the hideously invasive sensations of being in a concrete block building with a metal roof and sixty or seventy people rattling stuff and talking over each other, and began to relax. I was OK-ish, but I was making loud teeth-grinding noises and clenching my fists and she had reverted to one of her characters, by the time we left.
Their website states the average processing time per patron is twenty four minutes, but ours was three times that.
The line was probably longer than usual because it was the first day of the month. The first and last days of the months tend to be more crowded. It only cost me $27 to renew my registration for my car and $25 to have it inspected. My car is a 1995 Honda, though.
I had not thought of that, but you are right. I had no choice, though. April is the month with the most expenses, for us. Coincidentally, the mortgage company had re-assessed the escrow part of our house payment, this month, plus I had to buy a mower. It is a sad state of affairs that a man of my age, means and abilities is affected by a couple hundred dollars of unexpected expenses, but in our situation there are times when a couple of hundred dollars makes a big difference in our budget.
I had missed the mail-in deadline and had to suffer the lines at the branch office.
