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Since I moved in the past year and never updated my address with all the places I should have, I spent the morning getting the necessary things done for my car registration.
First stop was to get the emission check. This was relatively painless and didn’t take too long. The only negative was that my steering wheel was all grimy after the dude drove my car.
Money Spent: $25.00
Next was the office of the Fulton County Tax Commissioner for my vehicle registration. I chose the one in the Sandy Springs area instead of the one downtown, because downtown is just a pain in the ass for parking and such. I think I made the right choice. The crowd was minimal and the people were very helpful.
Money Spent: $147.65
The final stop was the DMV to get my address changed on my license. I figured since I was out, I might as well get this updated too. Oh, and the DMV isn’t called the DMV anymore. Now it’s the Department of Driver Services, or DDS. I don’t think they offer teeth cleaning, though. I had to wait the longest here, and I swear people that got there after me got their number called before me.
Money Spent: $0.00
As a whole, it was a successful morning.
Comments
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Is it your birthday or something?
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DDS? Isn’t that like a dental degree or something? Dumb!
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Paulie: I went to a Jiffy Lube to get the emissions done. They didn’t trust me to drive my car into the garage. I might miss the ramp and drive into the cave or whatever its called under the floor where the oil change people are kept.
Dave: No.
ming: Exactly what I thought.
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You did all the most annoying things in one day… you must possess the powers of patience.
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Normally, no. I think I hit everything at the right time and missed huge crowds.
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Your post title was misleading. Once I read it, I grabbed some popcorn and settled back to read what promised to be a good ol’ boba-bitchin’ about the pain-in-the-ass DMV (DDS whatever). Imagine my disappointment when I realized that you actually had a good experience, and not once did you hurl an expletive towards a DMV cashier.
The old bait-and-switch routine, I suppose.
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When I was thinking about this post I was a little angry about having to wait 45 minutes at the DMV (DDS) just to have my address updated. But as I was typing I realized that getting all this done in the span of about 2 hours was actually a pretty successful chain of events. I didn’t change the title, though.
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Last time I was at the DDS (after searching far too long for the DMV), I was there for 4 hours. Just to renew.
Paulie [eatl/ga]
Friday, February 24, 2006 02:21:29 pm
> The only negative was that my steering wheel was all grimy after the dude drove my car.
???
If I remember correctly I’ve always just driven into a little tent, popped the hood and allowed them to shove a probe up my exhaust pipe (no euphemism). After a few minutes they’d give me the results. All for the low, low price of $25.