Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Adventures on My Day Off...

...by the cajun.

6 am - scrambled egg on toast sandwich & iced coffee for breakfast.

6:30 - ran a load of laundry (whites), wash, dry and put away.

7:30 - set out on grocery shopping mission, with a stop at hardware store for a few necessities.

9:15 - pull into driveway to unload and notice that I was followed home by an RB police cruiser.

9:20 - learn that auto registration expired in June. Colour me embarrassed.

9:30 - receive ticket for expired tag for $50.00 payable to the RB Court.

9:50 - unloaded car, checked today's DMV hours (noon to 8 pm).

10:20 - on the road to the DMV hoping to be one of the first in line. Don't want to waste the entire day.

12:05 pm - pass inspection and must visit the registration desk in person.  Bother!

12:15 - given ticket # C 432,  and wait. They call C 398 as I find a seat.

1:40 - there is an unpleasant altercation at window 9 and guards are called in. Not pretty.

2 pm - C 432 is called to window 7.  Nice reception by a very cordial man. Present inspection results, license, insurance card, and blood sample, and expired registration card.

2:15 - all information is updated in the DMV database, (including email to receive notice of the next impending expiration date) $90.00 is charged to my credit card; $80.00 for a two-year registration plus a $10.00 charge for the expired one.  Bummer, but could have been worse.

3:30 - stuck in traffic on the way home, tourists and road construction create nightmarish conditions.

4:15 - arrive home hot and exhausted with a splitting headache.  I realize I've eaten nothing all day since that breakfast sandwich 10 hours ago.

4:30 - throw a salad together and wolf it down with a leftover Chesapeake spicy sausage link. Feel better fast!

4:45 - get out sewing kit and replace missing buttons on 3 shirts, and it ain't easy with these old eyes.

5:15 - glass meets ice, gin, olives, and a touch of vermouth. Immediate temporary bliss.

5:40 - 'hello nurse!' prepping dinner while nursing the martini.

6 pm - the entire day is shot and there is little to show for it, at least, in the 'fun' department.

6:20 - post this useless time-line to the blog in a desperate effort not to feel sorry for self.

Only good news is the Prop 8 was over turned and found to be unconstitutional.  Woo Hoo!

And so it goes.
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6 comments:

  1. I like the time line format. May use it. I'm sorry to hear that your day was shot at the DMV but as you said, it could have been worse (deep cavity check.)

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  2. Yeah gay on the prop-8 decision... Sorry to hear your day with DelDMV was so much like the hassles here in VA... Only difference is, here in VA you would have been charged an additional $5.00 to actually use the office rather than doing it online...

    Thanks for the supportive comments these past couple of weeks... We need to plan a trip up your way after the season ends (so long as you don't mind sharing your time with an "old couple"...

    Love ya dude!@

    Tom

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  3. Sounds like a rather constructive day all around!

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  4. You need to get a medal for simply getting all that accomplished at a DMV!! (let alone all the other things you did)

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  5. Oh how I wish I had my camera there to capture the expression on yur face when you realized that the RB police cuiser was cruising you. Priceless.

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