Why I hate the DMV.

[rug]

[HappyMe]

1. LOL!

That's correct.

[HopeHoops]

2. That's really cute. We don't have that problem with PennDOT. They use numbers.

They've got different letters (based on why you are there), with B designating most basic registration and license renewal things. You get a number slip when you arrive and there are sign boards in each corner that change (keeping the most recent three) while an electronic voice calls out the number and counter number. I've rarely spent more than ten minutes there, and often less. I've never seen something so chaotic run so smoothly.

[rug]

4. I got my original license at the DMV in Manhattan.

One reason I moved to PA was to get away from all the crowding.

This is a small town, how bad could PennDoT be to transfer my license?

They're only open on Thursdays, the bastards!

[HopeHoops]

6. The Harrisburg PennDOT is open Tuesday through Saturday. It's also easy to get to.

[MiddleFingerMom]

5. When I got to Tucson in '98, the system was a NIGHTMARE!!! 4 & 5 hour waits not uncommon.

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Now, they've got it down to an art. The last several times I've been there, I've
been in and out in 10-20 minutes.
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They also adopted a letter/number calling system.
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[HopeHoops]

7. That's how I remember the MD DMV in '78 and the NH DMV in '89.

[femmocrat]

11. Jeez! Not in this corner of the state!

When I go to get my license renewed, I'm always like number 73 and they are on like 26. I sit there for hours it seems.

I have to go on Saturdays, though. They do divide the room into photo IDs and people taking drivers' tests, at least.

That is only one reason requiring voters to get their IDs from PennDot was such a rotten idea.

[HopeHoops]

17. The HBG building has a testing room, a photo ID room, and a main hall for all else.

Speaking of which, my wife showed up at a military base this morning and the guard informed her that her license had expired. Oops. She can't get off work at all this week so we'll be off next Saturday morning to get hers renewed. Fortunately my eldest was along with her (dropping off her boyfriend for PT) and the guard let her go after switching drivers.

[sharp_stick]

3. Same shit happens at the border

it doesn't matter what lane I pull into you can bet that the other lanes will move at least twice as fast as mine.

[schmice]

8. Hahahahahahahahahahaha. But painfully true.

[Phentex]

9. That is every grocery store, post office, department store...

damn, I know that bear!

[kcass1954]

10. I've accepted that it's my lot in life that I get in either the wrong line or the wrong lane.

Never fails.

[Stuart G]

12. Numbers..Numbers ...and this is all to say...

In Illinois....it is numbers.....this does not exist..

[FloridaJudy]

13. Everybody bashes bureaucrats

But I suspect it was a bureaucrat who looked at the DMV and said "This system sucks! We can do it better..." The last few times I had to go there, they gave me a number, and I was in and out in minutes. Quite a change from a few decades ago!

[Orrex]

14. Yes, they finally got almost as organized as a 1960s deli

Who knows what wonders the next 50 years might hold?

[Chan790]

15. I'm leaning on MD MVA to put their forms on the internet in PDFs.

That way I can show up with the forms already filled out; not just a time-saver, they ask random things that they expect you to be able to fill out on a form in the office that nobody knows off the top of their head.

When was your last tetanus booster?

They put the answer box in date-form so you can't write Fuck if I know.

Is your vision equal in both eyes?

I dunno, you've got an eye-testing thingie-machine...you tell me. Jackasses.

[pipi_k]

16. DMV lines and

store lines and bank lines, etc.

I've been in them all, just like that.

One of the (sort of) local DMVs has a deli-counter style system. Take a number, wait for your number to show up on the number board.

One great thing here in Mass...we only have to make the trek to the DMV for license renewal once every ten years even though we renew every five. In between you can renew it online. Yay!

[a kennedy]

18. This is so cute....and true according to my husband.....but it's not just the DMV...

it's EVERY line he's EVER been in.