car tags after moving to Denver. Just went today and did not get them. I moved to Denver a little while ago and love it. The people are great, I can understand the black folks, my fast food orders are correct and I dont have attitude if I ask someone at a store for help, because she wants to text her friend Shaniqua all day instead of help customers. I get along with all the Uncle Toms here in the Mile High City. So Denver has been great, but one thing is always constant....shitty service at the DMV.
I'm from TN and I went to the DMV, I told the lady I needed a drivers lisecne and car tags. Pretty simple, but people who dont care tend to do the bare minimum and less if they can (for those of you on the attitude thread, this is why these dumbasses stay in their jobs and why the govt needs unions because these people are worthless). So She tells me that I cant get a drivers liscense there, but I can get car tags, and she asks me if I have a vin check and an inspection done. No I say, so she says I need one of each and there is a 4 folder shelf on the table and she points to it (God forbid she grabs the right paper and makes me have to get it). Now I ask about the drivers liscense, well I'm in Broomfield and I have to go to Longmont, 45-60 min away....huh??? I cant get a drivers liscense at the DMV, seriously????? Ok, now I go to the inspection place, she didnt tell there would be a charge and I have to pay cash, so I'm now pissed....and now I've ruined a entire day and got nothing done, sounds like liberal government to me.
PS I work, so having helpful people work at these places would be nice, not all of us are welfare queens that have all day, every day to do this shit.
And this is why I dont want the govt anywhere near healthcare or guns or anything else.....
Good old Liberal Denver. I've been to the airport to change planes, but other than step outside for a smoke, I know little of it first hand.
I moved to Alabama 3 years ago.
When I got here, I had a Florida license and tags on the truck, trailer and bike
Fl registrations alone cost nearly $400/year on the 3 vehicles and the license was another 80 bucks.
So, I stick a wad of cash in my pocket and plan on spending all day in town.
There's a lady at a desk inside the door. She asks if I need help. I tell her I want to register my pickup, my travel trailer and motorcycle and get my Alabama drivers license. She starts by telling me that I'll have to visit 2 offices. Oh Crap! Where is the second one? She points to the doorway just to the left of the room where I get the plates. Cool!
So in to get my plates. No line! I flip titles and FL registrations for all 3 vehicles on the desk and she starts typing madly. I interrupt her and ask about vanity plates for the Harley. She asks my choice and writes it down and walks to a different computer. In a few seconds, she's back and says that my choice is available and it will cost an additional $40 like she is apologizing to me. I say "fine with me, Ma'am" and she goes back to typing.
At this point, I've been inside the building for maybe 3 minutes and I'm baffled. I have not met one single surly, incompetent, arrogant, civil servant.
I check my phone for email.
She says, "That will be $128.50". I said, "For the truck?" She said, "Total.Your plate for the Harley Davidson should arrive at your home in 10 days." I reply "10 days??? as my FL vanity plates had taken 6 weeks.
She replied, "We have to make them special, you know."
Now, I'm loving Alabama. I have registered 3 vehicles in just about 5 minutes. The license has GOT to be where they get you.
I walk into the next room dreading what is a 4 hour process in Fort Lauderdale and hear, "Can I help you, sir?" It's a guy in uniform. uht oh!
I hand him my FL license and tell him I need an Alabama one.
He opens a page on the computer and asks my name and address. and looks at my license. I remark that I also have a motorcycle endorsement, to which he replies, "So I see. Age? Weight? Eye color? You'll need an eye test. Look in here. What's the smallest line you can read?"
Then he tells me to stand in the box to my left. One step sideways and he says "Smile. Have a seat. This will take a couple minutes. I sit down and pick up a magazine. It's the current issue of Reader's Digest. I thumb to a page of jokes and I hear my name. I walk up and he says "That will be $26. I pay and he hands me my Alabama driver's license.
10 or 12 minutes and I'm in my truck grabbing a screw driver to mount my new plates. 7 days later, my vanity plate arrives.
Damn! I love Alabama!