While I was in the UK my license expired and I was sick in the hospital when it happened so was unable to renew and by the time I tried to renew it online it was too late. The last time I was here we never got the chance for me to go in and take the test. I had to take the written as well as the behind the wheel. :( Not a fun perspective.
So I have been reading the drivers book again refreshing my mind on everything and also doing an online refresher on all the signs and what questions they would ask. Its been 20 years since I took the test. Some things become just second nature and you really don't think about it so I wanted to be prepared.
On Thurs we went for me to take the test only to have me fail the eye test!!!!! So I had to go in to an eye doctor to have him sign a paper stating that I have a problem with my left eye that cannot be fixed with glasses but that does NOT hinder me in driving. (my left eye is turned a mil off) Got an appointment for Friday morning all went well got the paper signed but the DMV office was closed and nothing was open until Wed.
So on Wed morning we arrived at 10 in hopes of getting home by lunch. It was not too long of a wait and I took the written test and got it done pretty fast and passed. The next step was to take the behind the wheel.......1 hour later they got to me to take the test..........only to get outside and as she did her normal check of car the crack that is in my mothers windshield was a problem....so we went back inside. (it did not even acure to either my mom or me that it would be a problem)
Mom called dad to see if his truck would work but he said he too had a nick so mom started calling around to see if anyone had a car I could use for the test. Mom called Karen to see if we could borrow one of there cars, well the one we were thinking actually the engine blew up last week! and the other one had loose steering......so we called Steph to see if she had Josh's car. No Josh had taken it. well a few minutes later Cephas called to say he would bring his car around for me to use..... he happened to be with Steph when we called......so we waited for him to get there.......
My brother happened by just then and got some granola bars f
or us from the store as we were getting hungry from sitting there for so long....he offered me his truck to use but I was afraid to try parallel parking in it...
Cephas arrived about 12.30 and we waited some more as they got really busy about that time.......finally they got me about 1.15...so we headed out to the car and she did the same routine of checking the car out and guess what??????
THE HORN DID NOT WORK!!!!!! can you believe it!! She had me try everything to get it to work could not get it to work so we headed back inside. unbelieving that here we were again with out a car to take the test...... Cephas went out and tried it himself and then decided to go have it looked at to see if it was just a fuse.......5 minutes later he called to say they are not sure what was wrong but that he was heading out to Joshua's work to get his car and leave his car with him.....but he was going to check everything on Josh's before he comes back.......
By this time I started to feel shaky from not eating anything other then the bars.....I was worried I would not be fit to drive so I went over to the shop and got something to eat and got my mom something to drink as thats all she wanted.....
When I got back (by this time its 2.30) one of the other mothers who son was taking the test offered me to use her car. I was a little nervous at the thought of driving a strangers car but we called Cephas to see where he was and he actually was on his way back. So we thanked her but decided to wait till he got back.
Cephas arrived with Josh car and we waited again for them to be able to take me out........3.20 she finally got time to take me out AGAIN!! On our way out the door the lady turned to me and said "lets hope third times the charm" and this time.........
The car PASSED!! Even the instructor was so glad she started singing the Hallelujah Chorus!!!
And so off we went and I took my test. Did find on parallel parking (thanks for the smaller car) and passed!
When we got back we were both laughing so hard at how long it took to finally get it sorted. I told her she was going to be so glad to see me leave. She was just glad we finally got it sorted.
We left the DMV office at 4.15. We ended up being there 6 hours!
Oh but what a day....I had left Baby K at home with my dad and she is still nursing so I kept calling to see how she was....she was happy but was REALLY happy to see me when I did get home.
We saw alot of different people come through the DMV office. And lets just say I have alot of respect for those woman that work in that office. After being closed for 5 days they were absolutely swamped. We thought about coming back another day but all of us wanted to get it sorted. They were so patient with all the questions that were coming in and also the amount of people that came in with wrong information or needed to get more information.
Now I can drive again......few thats a relief! I now don't always have to rely on others to drive me or the children. It will be nice to be back behind the wheel again....
THEN to end our day....... we arrived home to find that the boys had been walking all around the house with muddy shoes and Bapa and them had tried to wipe/mop it up and it smeared all over the floor. We had to just let it dry sweep it and now we are mopping mopping mopping! :)
Well that's the saga of our day at the DMV office.....we had planned it one way and it went another but it did end nicely and now a big
Uncle Cephas!!!!!
for saving the day!!!!
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