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Wednesday, November 02, 2005

A not so bad day at the DMV

This morning after day care drop off, I stopped at the DMV to renew my license tabs on my car. I'm thinking this will be quick because I have all the paperwork and they have a super service line just for renewing tabs. I waited a bit longer than expected due to a woman in front of me sharing her nephews school pictures with the nice woman behind the counter. It still went quickly, but when I got to the front of the super service line, she also informed me that my drivers license was expired as well and I needed to go to the end of the other line.

Ohhhhh. I was a bit bummed as I knew I'd be 40-45 minutes late for work today, but I was there and didn't want to go back again. While I was starting to think, why does this happen to me, I listened to the story of the man in front of me.

"I bought this truck from a friend of mine. I've paid him already and I just need to get the title transferred and renew the tabs." The nice lady behind the counter looks at the information, groans a bit, and then starts in with "well, I think we are going to have some problems. You see, the van was leased and the person you bought it from doesn't own it. On top of that, he has a recent DWI and there is a list of requirements that he needs to meet to sell the vehicle." If you've got a DWI on record, you can't sell the vehicle for less than fair market value and you can't sell it to someone you know or are related too. There was a lot more and it was painful to listen too. In the end, she estimated that it would take 10-12 weeks to sort it out, more if he actually didn't own the van.

After that, I was thankful that the person behind the counter had kindly notified me that my license had expired. Your probably thinking what's the point this blog? Well, this experience made me realize two things.

1) Most things are small things and every time you think you've got it bad, someone around you probably has something worse.

2) Ride your bike. Even though my trip to the DMV was short, all I could think about was that owning a car is a choice. Part of that choice is abiding by all the rules and this takes both time and money. In contrast, cycling and bikes are inexpensive when compared to cars, way cheaper to own and maintain, and don't require those yearly renewals. More importantly, riding a bike just feels good. Bikes Rule.

Enjoy your day and if you don't commute on your bike regularly, try it once in the next week.

Jason

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