Deidra Alexander's Blog

I just had 24 hours worth of creativity sucked out of me through my nose. The jokes my parents and grandparents told were true. I spent two and a half hours at the DMV getting my driver’s license renewed.

I think this process is designed to make you feel old, because by the time I got to the front of the line I was telling stories about the good old days before computers, internet, and cell phones back during the Iran contra affair and the Berlin wall. I feel I’m too old to stand in a line that long. I have less than half my life left and the last two and a half hours just ticked away at the DMV.

It was taking half an hour to process each person. That’s people with the correct paperwork, identification, and money ready to go.  What were they doing up there? Definitely collecting too much information.

I was almost at the front of the line when they were unable to scan the ladies thumbs in front of me. They could only scan one. What’s the big deal? What would happen if you were missing a thumb? It could happen. When did thumb scanning become mandatory? I’ve had MRIs that did were faster.

Here’s the logical next step, the DMV should start selling Starbucks coffee, tea and sandwiches. The money they collect should be used to pay off our debt to China. If they added those little airline size bottles of booze, we’d be out of debt in no time.  Because everyone there needed a good stiff drink.