When Vivika, a local quilt artist who I befriended during my Artisan Gallery days, commented on my DMV Pen post yesterday, I asked her if she had seen the pen machines when she was there.   This is her response, reposted with permission.   I had to laugh, but can you IMAGINE?

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Yes, the pen machine is there, and it was almost empty on my trip. The full day went like this:

12:15 Arrive and slide through the front door into a sardine can of people (Hamden was closed, so they all went to Old Saybrook). It was impossible to tell where the lines began.


12:30 Found the right line. Whew! Realize there are no forms, start to leave, nice lady gives us one. Score one for humanity.


3:10 Reach the front of the line and talk to DMV… finally. We watched handicapped, old and relatively young people nearly collapse from standing in line with no fresh air on a 90 degree day.


3:12 Get picture taken, sit in one open seat and wait for test. Watch the tattoo parade.


3:15 Doors are locked so no one else can get in. Man with the electronic ankle bracelet unwraps his legs from his girlfriend and takes his drivers test. New reality show is born.


4:15 Grace goes into room to take test. Airconditioning finally starts working.


4:16 People who arrived at 3:15 go in room to take test. I hate them! However, they exit first and stomp out of the DMV with no permit in hand. Score one for karma.


4:48 Grace leaves DMV with newly minted permission from the state of Connecticut to dent our cars and add $2000/year to our insurance policy…


It was a red letter day!

Vivika Hansen DeNegre
http://vdenegrequilts.blogspot.com/
http://theprayerflagproject.blogspot.com/

20 thoughts on “”

  1. You all must be in worse shape than Arizona…I think we still have pens though I can't be sure because I went and the line was going around the building so I said to myself I think I'll come again another day. I ended up going to another one 30 miles away…not one person there!!..if it is not one thing it's your mother!!…

  4. Very funny!

    When my son went to get his permit, we arrived at 2:15 on a Friday. The person who was giving permit tests kept leaving his station, then helping walk-ins. Finally at 4:30 after 12 numbers had been called in 2 hours 15 minutes and ours was still 5 numbers away, they announced that they were closing and would reopen on Tuesday morning. OMG!! My blood pressure still goes up thinking about it and it was over 5 years ago. The next morning we hit another DMV with Saturday hours and he got his permit. Good ol' DMV…. 🙂

    Congratulations to Vivika's daughter!

    Pam

  5. Funny, yet not. However, the tatoo part LOL.

    I don't know if it's this way in CT, but here when you go in to renew your license, you have to take:
    SS card
    Proof of Ins DUH
    Two Proof's of residence
    Birth certificate

    I have to go in March; my picture has been only my license since l994. HAHAHA

  10. Deep breath- deep breath- deep breath!!! Been there done that- and at least she got the license. NOW comes the scary part-watching the tail lights disappear down the drive- xo Diana

  11. Oh the joys of the DMV! They are not any better in Massachusetts. When I had to renew my license a few years ago there was a screaming match between an employee and a customer over a crying baby . . . it was almost insufferable!

    Thankfully Grace got her permit!

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