Our efforts to complete the registration process for Charlotte the truck were unsuccessful yesterday because acquiring the tags before the end of February was not an option using the internet. Instead, we both went over to the tiny DMV office in Gilroy to get the tags immediately.
“Immediately” was probably not a good word to describe getting the tags in any DMV office in California. We strolled into the Gilroy DMV looking for a kiosk that allows you to pay for registration and get the tags quickly. The Gilroy office does not have such a machine. Our remaining option was to go to one of the subhumans working there and to attempt to get the tags by paying directly to a person. It was foolish to think we would be able to pay and go without delay. We are idiots.
We were given a number and told to have a seat. I inquired about the wait and was informed it was around 30 minutes. The waiting area has a myriad of chairs, most filled with morose, disappointed citizens awaiting the DMV employees who seem to wander around behind their bullet-proof barricades while avoiding sitting at their workstations. 60 minutes later, our number finally appeared on the static-filled display visible from the large waiting area. We popped right over to window #2 where a worker took our $400 in about 30 seconds and we were free. Seems strange that the first idiot we spoke to was unable to handle the intracasies of a simple arm’s-length transaction instead sending us to a second idiot who seemed just as incapable as the first.
The DMV made us wish we had a drink of booze so after departing the DMV we went home and had drinks.