DMV

Hi again,

Lets talk about the DMV shall we? or at least the renewal of ones drivers license. I arrived home this break to an application for drivers license renewal. Oh well knew it was coming and all. Didn't know I would have to pay $34 to get this new license. I have never used my old one, which I paid $25 for. So now I must, by law either purchase a shiny new three inch plastic card that has no real value and I will never get any use out of, or not drive. Somebody explain this. Don't I get a donor discount or something?

Also the new cards are vertical. That upsets me. I have had a horizontal one since I got my license, I want to keep it that way. I think that the new vertical ones are ugly, and an attempt to fit in because other states are doing it too. Well Wisconsin, just because Minnesota jumped off a bridge in to one of their lakes, doesn't mean we have to jump into a barrel of beer. Mainly I am pissed about this because my wallet is horizontal. I know this because their is an M on the front, thus it has a field orientation. I don't want my license to look strange in my wallet, but I have had this wallet since my temps (as can be seen from the temps sitting behind my license because I was too lazy to take it out). So I have had this wallet for over three years, it is still good and I would like to keep it, but this new vertical license is threatening to screw it all up. Blah!!

So on the application, most of my information is filled in. This includes my date of birth, sex, race, eye color, hair color, weight, height, drivers license number, and my address. Well okay, while my date of birth, sex, race, and eye color are not likely to have changed, my weight and height might have. In over two years, half of one being at college, I will of course not gained or lost any weight or grown an inch, or died my hair. These are all very uncommon things that the average American 16 to 19 year old would more than likely not do, except for the few rebellious ones and they are so crazy they shouldn't be driving anyway. The few blanks that I must fill in are my social security number (which could be gotten by knowing my license number, so why not just go ahead and fill that in?), and weather of not I want to be an organ donor (the answer is yes) and if i wish to have my name removed from the lists that they sell, and if I am a citizen of the US or not. If I was two years ago, I think I am now. I don't think, since I haven't moved, that my citizenship has run out. Also they would like to know if my operating privileges have been cancelled or disqualified. Do they really send renewal forms to people who have had their licenses taken away? And if they do why? They want to know if I have had a loss of consciousness or muscle control in the past year due to any of eight listed conditions. A) lets extend that to five years shall we? just to be on the safe side, but that's just how I roll and B) can we please have an other box because I am sure their are more than eight conditions that can cause this that would be equally hazardous to driving and C) shouldn't a yes or no be sufficient actually? and then an if yes please explain?

If you are looking for an upside to this rant here it is: I get a new picture, and this time I plan on looking good. Not that anyone really sees it, except for in an exchange of bad license photo story, but hey maybe now I can be in the good license photo story group. Oh well.

Ta Ta