The Drama of my Drivers License Saga - Finale

 So I go in for another fun DMV appointment, an hour early...because of what has already happened.

And I was lucky to get called right away and things were progressing and then. HARD STOP. It was literally called a hard stop. They had to call Glen Burnie again and it was only going to be like 15 minutes. Which was really closer to 30 but that's ok. 

I get to the next counter and this lady was definitely no nonsense and wanted what happened before and that the Hard Stop was something to do with verifying who I was - AGAIN. But! We were finally able to FINALIZE this bitch and get my new driver's license.

Oh and I was not prepared for the picture. Nope. Not prepared AT ALL.

Good gods I need to lose weight. And granted part of this is because of my period and being bloated, but NOOOOOPPPPEEEEE.

The Drama of My Drivers License Saga - Update

 Part 7: A very nice guy from the AZ Directors office called me. I ended up explaining, again and emailed him my DL's. He emailed back that he cleared the driving record and it should be instantaneous but that a couple days is a good idea just to make sure. It went nationwide, so interesting.

Whew.

Part 8: I called the following day to my local DMV, no update in their records yet. Lady was super confused by the story/situation. Transferred me. Got transferred again. And again. 4th person was in Records in Glen Burnie (Super Nice Lady!). She listened, put me on hold - CALLED AZ and verified with them - and she updated the MD records!

Now it's Wednesday and I've waited 3 days and will be calling tomorrow to see about getting an appointment earlier than 2/23!

Almost done!

The Drama of My Drivers License Saga

 Part 1:

I had to schedule an appointment, because of Covid-19 and the earliest date was 2 months away.

Ok, did that.

Part 2: Good gods, I needed my divorce paperwork, had it. My marriage certificate - DID NOT HAVE IT. Sent in the request. X wrong answer. All the other info needed, I had = Yay for that.

Rescheduled my appointment

Called directly to the place we had married and requested it.

Waiting.

Rescheduled my appointment again because I didn't want to not have my old certificate.

Part 3: Appointment day.

I'm prepped and ready. Get there, wait only like 20 minutes.

But wait, there's a problem.

ARIZONA says I surrendered my license to them in 2017. What the what?? I've been here since 2009/2010. I have license here. The lady legit said no I don't have a MD license. Bwhahaha, she was HOLDING IT as she said this. 

I have not lived in AZ since 1995. That is literally 25 years ago. 25 mother fucking years and they are holding me up from getting my drivers license renewed. 

I was told I would be charged for an out of state license. I own a fucking house here. I have been here for 11 years. Dude!

So. If I had my OLD AZ license, from 1995, which I have seen ironically seen sometime in the last few years as I've been cleaning out my attic and finding old and sometimes interesting things.

This is just insane, not horribly so, but it's super annoying and frustrating to say the least.

The 1st lady at the local DMV had said I could have renewed my license 6 months before it expired. Ahem, hello - Covid 19 kinda made that difficult. Which is why mine expired in the first place. 

She was nice, but confused because she's telling me that I don't have a MD license, when I do, because of the system is telling her. So we have to fix the system in order for this to move forward. Which means I have to call AZ and get them to send a letter to Glenn Burnie and I'm like...LET ME CHECK FIRST for my old license.

Part 4: I drive back to Frederick, TRAFFIC ISSUES, dash to the apartment and look where I had thought I this thing. NOPE. Fucking hell. Ok. Drive BACK to the house, go to the attic and check the safe. NOPE AGAIN. 

Damn it.

I start to go back to the DMV and side tracked to my nieces because I am storing a lot of stuff with her, like old pics and whatnot and MAYBE I had left it with those.

NOPE. Couldn't even find that box so it may still be up in the attic.

Part 5: I call AZ and left a vm.

Part 6: Wow, I got a call back like in literally 10 minutes. Sad news, the super nice lady was not the one who handles this (no access) but is forwarding my information to her Director and I should have a call back no later than tomorrow afternoon. If I don't have a call, super nice lady asked me to call her again.

So. Good gods, so much driving and talking and I need a drink. 

Part 7 - Coming up next