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Message started by BarbaraD on Mar 18th, 2009 at 9:00am

Title: I'm Legal to Drive Now
Post by BarbaraD on Mar 18th, 2009 at 9:00am
My driver's license came up for renewal this year... No problem right?

The way my year has been going -- this proved to be a BIG problem. Seems we only have ONE place in Cass County to get it done. So I go over there and they're CLOSED! Not once but numerous times. (I started doing this in Feb. - license expired in March). Never were they OPEN when I went over there.

So I've got an appointment with my neuro yesterday - (my license is a week expired by now), so I think - NO PROBLEM, I'll run by the DPS office and get them renewed in Longview. BIG MISTAKE....

I wait in LINE for one and a half hours only to have a witch with a green wig tell me I cannot SEE (well, I've been in this damn line - closed up for an hour and a half - I'm hitting about a five on the Kip scale, my eye is almost closed - of COURSE I can't see - I explain this to her slowly). It goes downhill from here. I DO NOT wear glasses!!!! She ends up giving me a FORM to have my optomologist fill out SAYING I do not need glasses to drive BEFORE they will issue me a new license!!!!!

I'm not a happy camper by now......

I have other business to take care of so I go on about my business and on the way home I stop at ANOTHER DPS office in Gilmer (well..... might as well give it another try - my head is MUCH better now).

Whole different ball game.... This nice DPS officer gives me the eye test - I tell him I can't see worth a darn because my eye is watering and he asks me which line I CAN see and tells me that's close enough. In 15 minutes I walk out with my renewed license and I'm legal till 2015.

I've never had so much trouble getting my license renewed. I think it's a slander to Senior Citizens ... Maybe turning 65 has its problems after all.... :)  

But after a night's sleep --I'm MUCH better today... :-*

Hugs BD

Title: Re: I'm Legal to Drive Now
Post by DennisM1045 on Mar 18th, 2009 at 3:14pm

BarbaraD wrote on Mar 18th, 2009 at 9:00am:
he asks me which line I CAN see and tells me that's close enough. In 15 minutes I walk out with my renewed license and I'm legal till 2015.

Am I glad I don't drive in Texas  :o

I'm glad you got it sorted out in the end.

-Dennis- (who has this vision of Barb crushing the guys jewels in one hand while telling him which line she can see.  But her eyes are so bad she won't see this anyway.  So me?  I'm not worried...)

Title: Re: I'm Legal to Drive Now
Post by [joHnny]w_ an_h on Mar 18th, 2009 at 3:24pm
yeah man. gotta love standing in line at the dmv and getting an attack. i feel ya there sister. [smiley=hammer.gif]

Title: Re: I'm Legal to Drive Now
Post by ANNSIE on Mar 18th, 2009 at 5:42pm

Gosh, you were so brave to be standing in line waiting with a kip anything !! It must have been awful trying to concentrate and read when your eye was watering and the head was pounding !

What a relief though and good thinking to go to another office so that now you have your license.

Congrats mum  :)

Title: Re: I'm Legal to Drive Now
Post by Batch on Mar 18th, 2009 at 6:33pm
Barbara,

Good on you for sticking to your guns and not giving up... Glad you're good 'til 2015..  

For the rest of you not familiar with driving in Texas...  They've got some strange rules down there...  like beer holders are mandatory on motorcycles...  It seams it's illegal to make a hand signal you intend to turn with a Pear or Lone Star long neck in your hand...   [smiley=yikes.gif]

Take care,

V/R, Batch

Title: Re: I'm Legal to Drive Now
Post by ClusterChuck on Mar 19th, 2009 at 4:22am
Attention all TEXANS!!!


It would be in the best interests of your health and well being, to stay OFF the roads until 2015 ...

Seems there is a crazy old biddie, on the loose, driving erratically, in her truck ...

Be leery!!!!
BEWARE!!!


(End of public service announcement)

Title: Re: I'm Legal to Drive Now
Post by DennisM1045 on Mar 19th, 2009 at 1:21pm

Batch wrote on Mar 18th, 2009 at 6:33pm:
like beer holders are mandatory on motorcycles...  [smiley=yikes.gif]


Pete, this is obviously a well considered and thought out regulation.  After all, without the beer holder you'd have to choose between the brake hand or the clutch hand when deciding which to hold the beer in.  Or, you'd have to hold it in your teeth which could force you to take your eyes off the road  ::)

-Dennis-

Title: Re: I'm Legal to Drive Now
Post by Steambug on Mar 19th, 2009 at 8:13pm
dont know how you stayed in the line - but I did a similar thing - not sure how it works in the states but here we have to take a 2 part driving test, a theory part and then the practical test. I did my theory test today and half way through the beastie kicks in, im sitting there in front of the computer in the test centre trying to concentrate and watch the darn videos and click the mouse when I saw the road hazards onscreen, I did pass though, god knows how!

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