The is what I looked like after my day yesterday! My licensed expired August 31, 2008 and I completely forgot about it until yesterday morning. So not wanting to put off the inevitable and knowing that it was going to be a hassle, I grabbed my birth certificate and went to the tag agency which is across town from where I live. Now I've lived in this smallish town for 18 years and several of the people at the tag agency actually know me. So I wait my turn in line and I'm really proud to whip out my birth certificate when they see that my license is expired, then I have to wait until the one person in the place that can verify this is finished with what she is doing and when she gets to me the first words out of her mouth are "that birth certificate won't work". I'm like whaaat...it's my original, by the way. Well it seems that some states (Colorado) issue different kinds of birth certificates than Oklahoma. Mine is a County certificate instead of a certified life birth certificate from the State of Colorado. Okay so they send me to the drivers testing place to get it approved, which is back across town, not that big of a deal. Here I go again waiting in a smallish line and they take one look at my bc and say "Nope this won't work, sorry".
Whaaat!!! Okay what now and so they give me the phone number to some records office in Colorado. Let me mention here that these are the drivers examiners that I'm talking with and they continually drive up and down my street (i don't live far) to test new drivers. They see my address on my old DL and start going on and on about how pretty my hubby keeps the yard (hey, I help) and how pretty our house is and yadda, yadda, yadda. So these people obviously know that I'm a good upstanding citizen and one of them even says "didn't I have one of your daughters drive with me?"
So about this time I'm almost getting irritated, but I keep my cool and I head home where I start digging in files and I find a certified copy of my bc from when I lost my license at 18. I head back to the drivers place and they approve me and we visit for awhile and then back across town to the tag agency where I have to wait...and finally, well you see the end result in the picture!
Big lesson learned and I'm passing it along to you (because there where several of us in the same boat yesterday) DO NOT let your DL expire!
Have a great and productive day!
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Sounds to me like you had one of my kind of adventures, lol.
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