I am off the DMV to renew my license...

[Drunken Irishman]

I got it when I was 16. A lot has changed since then. I think I look way better now, so it'll be nice to get an updated photo.

With that said, that's IF I get it renewed. I'm one of those fools who's blind and doesn't wear glasses. So, since I own no glasses, I have to stop by and pick up my mom's reading glasses in hopes of winging the eye test. I am not confident. But it's better than going in with nothing (which I failed originally, all the way back when I first got the license).

I need good luck vibes and I'll let you know if I didn't pass.

If I don't, I need glasses by Monday (and money, I guess), because my birthday is on the 17th and that's when my license expires. If I let it expire, I'll have to take all the tests over again (and I haven't done a driving test since I was in HS).

Grr.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

1. The little old guy in line ahead of me the other day must have been on the eye test for 10 minutes.

He kept taking his glasses off and putting them on. On top of an apparent vision problem he seemed a little out of it. The clerk had to call a supervisor over and that went on for another 3-4 minutes. But dammit if he didn't pass!

[Drunken Irishman]

4. Maybe I should have taken my time.

I gave up like five seconds into it because it was all a blur.

[Common Sense Party]

2. Good luck. I hope you have LOTS of documentation.

I had to order a CERTIFIED copy of my birth certificate from my home state (since the hospital certificate I've carried for 40 years doesn't cut it).

You also have to have a couple bills showing you live where you say you live.

I guess if you have a current passport, you're golden.

[Drunken Irishman]

3. I failed.

My eyes are shit.

Couldn't even make out most of the first mother fucking line.

So now I have to go to an eye doctor and have him sign off on something, then take it back. All before my birthday Monday.

Of course, since our state has a budget crisis, all state offices are closed tomorrow. Figures.

[Common Sense Party]

5. They went to four tens before the budget crisis.

Did you have all your documentation? When they said, "papers, please" you were able to produce?

Lucky!

[Duer 157099]

6. I accidentally let mine expire

You won't believe this (I can still hardly believe it myself...) but I had let my DL expire almost TWO YEARS ago and so have been driving without a valid license all this time. I don't know how it happened, but it did.

When I went to renew a few months ago, I just had to take the written test (and eye exam) but that was it.

I am SO lucky I was never stopped in that time. Well, actually I was stopped once for a really stupid thing but the cop didn't even ask for my DL and oh boy now I'm so glad he didn't!

[proteus_lives]

7. Why don't you wear glasses?