Can I please have a WAIT loss program?

[unixronin]

I spent about half of today waiting around.  After the kids got up and we found Wen the Eternally Surprised a pair of matching shoes, it was off to Merrimack for the second try to get my license remade with the little wheelchair icon that says yes, I really am authorized to have this disabled parking permit.  New Hampshire DMV even called me yesterday to tell me they'd identified and corrected the problem.

(You may now practise your hollow, mocking laughter.)

I'm sure you've already figured out that it was not fixed.  They couldn't do it this week, either.  Not only that, but as I was filling out the paperwork this week, I noticed that the replacement license they issued me last week -- you know, the one supposed to be identical to the one I'd just turned in for replacement, except with the wheelchair icon -- had the wrong date of birth on it.  It had 07/08/1960 instead of 08/07/1960.  "Oops."  And hey, waitaminnit here .... where's my motorcycle endorsement?!?

Well, of all the accumulated errors, the only thing they managed to get fixed today was the birth date on my license.  And because they had to enter a new birth date, hey, that means I must be a different person!  So we had to take a new picture.  Still, it's a better photo than the one on the original -- I don't look so exhausted -- so that's not a terrible thing.  It's actually not bad at all for a license photo.

Anyway, somehow they'd managed to completely erase all record from my license that I've ever had a motorcycle endorsement on my New Hampshire license.  They apparently have to go back and look up the microfilm of the original application in order to verify that I actually have the endorsement.  We sat around and waited for about another hour and a quarter or so waiting for DMV Concord to call back and say they'd found it.  So far, there has been no call.  In the meantime, I don't even know whether I can legally ride right now or not.  The clerk at the Merrimack DMV office couldn't tell me for sure.

We had to leave there about 1400E to head two exits down 3 for my appointment with my orthopedist at 1420E.  We got there with ten minutes to spare ... only to sit around for another hour and a quarter waiting for them to get to us, because the orthopedist was running late.  After an hour and a quarter waiting, I was in the exam room maybe ten minutes, tops.  The upshot of that was to get sent home with instructions to wait for a call sometime this week from his surgical scheduler, to give me a list of possible dates for surgery on my left knee.

Two and a half hours of sitting around waiting in two different offices, and very little to show for it.

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[ehintz.livejournal.com]

Heh. Queues are teh suck.