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The DMV. I hate it with a burning passion after today, after spending 6, fruitless hours their and finally getting to the desk for my road test, i was left unable to take it. All because i didn't have my School ID. After spending the first 2 hours sitting on lines and dealing with children whose parents were far to concerned with their phones or forms and the man at the information desk that spoke in barely understandable English, i sat on a bench for 4 hours waiting for my number, and when mine appeared, i ran up and went through the process of showing them everything but my ID. So she turns me away, and i leave with barely an argument and took the bus home.

On the up side, i did have White castle afterwards...

Do any of you have DMV terror stories?

I recently renewed my DL online. I received a form in the mail and took it to the DMV. I had my picture taken and was done and gone in 20 minutes or so.


It was unbearable.

I wasted 6 hours, and in the end got nothing done, sarcasm is not needed.

I'll be honest.
I have no idea with there is a UK version of the DMV.
I did all my stuff online, like a boss.

purplefood wrote:I'll be honest.
I have no idea with there is a UK version of the DMV.
I did all my stuff online, like a boss.

But did you gak on Debra's desk?

In the part of the world where I live, all drivers are under the sway of the almighty ICBC. It combines the absolute authority of a government body with the soulless evil of big corp. It's maddening.

I was going to say West side of Chicago till i read the top post .....DMV gets my vote, the only place on earth that made me call a 70 year old lady the big "C" word.

Took my driving test with a State Trooper (bullet proof vest and all). He turned out the a pretty cool guy in the end.

DMV agred hahaha

The only real horror story I have is from when I first got my license. Around where I grew up most schools offer Driver's Ed, which means something on the order of 10-12 classes of high schools sophomores are taking their drivers' tests at the same time.

Let's just say the lines were a bit long, even though my mom took the day off and pulled me out of school in order to take me early on a Wednesday.

It's all those people dropping off escaped souls from hell stretching out the lines.

Curse you Satan!

LordofHats wrote:

I was literally thinking about this clip the entire day, thanks!

Commisar Von Humps wrote:

LordofHats wrote:

I was literally thinking about this clip the entire day, thanks!

Best scene in the whole series lmao

purplefood wrote:I'll be honest.
I have no idea with there is a UK version of the DMV.
I did all my stuff online, like a boss.

The DVLA are also annoying bureaucrats. Thankfully it's quite rare that you have to visit them in person.

Reminds me of a great line from Whose Line is it Anyway?

"I need a place with a sense of urgency."
"The DMV!"
"The DMV's really a place with NO sense of urgency."

Honestly, I haven't had any bad experiences at the DMV. I had to wait nearly 45 minutes to take a permit test, but that's about it. Maybe I'm just lucky?

You are just lucky.
Wait till next time.

I'll take your DMV and raise you 1 Vic Roads. (my states equivalent to the DMV)

When i went to get my L's I had to book my test a few weeks in advance. 1 day before the test i get a call saying the session was over booked due to a *ahem* "clerical error" so i had to wait another week. Day comes round and I'm sitting in line for close on 3 maybe 3.5 hours. I take my test just fine and hand it into the girl behind the jump. At this point I'm told it will be about an hours wait to process my form, etc etc blah blah. Yep cool i can handle that coz i have my ipod. But no apparently not. This snively nosed pencil pusher comes up to me and says 'Audio storage devices aren't allowed because you could be using to gain an unfair advantage and you will have to hand it over to me.' I tell him that A. I have already completed my test, B. I'm nowhere near the exam room and that C. He can go copulate with himself if he thinks that i will be relinquishing my 'audio storage device' to him or anyone else.

Still with me?? Good!

1 hour and 20 minutes later the girl i handed my form to tells me I've passed and i need to have my photo taken. So I'm standing in front of the camera making the most serial killerish face i can and she tells me the camera isn't working. At the point i was about ready to strangle myself with my headphone cord. Now being the semi techno savvy person i am and while still in a patient mood i ask her if i can take at look at the clunky thing they call a camera. She takes a step back in deference and i promptly slam my fist onto its casing a few times which gets it working again (Now I'm assuming it was a jammed shutter or something because it had been working 2 minutes earlier for the person before me.). The girl prints out my permit, sends me on my way. Now at this point i was thinking along the same lines as you OP, I'm thinking hmm gonna get me some fine delicious processed meat product from Maccas... Bastards were closed for maintenance.

I failed my drivers test 3 times before I ever passed. Parallel parking is a to learn when your only options to test in were my dad's 78 Bronco and my mom's 80 something F-150.

I finally bought a Pontiac phoenix and passed

We dont really have a DMV where I live, we do that sort of thing at the Secretary of State. And the longest I ever waited in there was a whopping 5 minutes. Gotta love small towns eh?

Commisar Von Humps wrote:The DMV. I hate it with a burning passion after today, after spending 6, fruitless hours their and finally getting to the desk for my road test, i was left unable to take it. All because i didn't have my School ID. After spending the first 2 hours sitting on lines and dealing with children whose parents were far to concerned with their phones or forms and the man at the information desk that spoke in barely understandable English, i sat on a bench for 4 hours waiting for my number, and when mine appeared, i ran up and went through the process of showing them everything but my ID. So she turns me away, and i leave with barely an argument and took the bus home.

On the up side, i did have White castle afterwards...

Do any of you have DMV terror stories?

gak yeah, when I was living in Santa Barbara I went with my missus, it was a fething nightmare, we were in there for about an hour for some ridiculously trivial reason. It was crowded, the queue didn't move and lots of people smelled funny. And it was full of tramps, do tramps even have cars?

I took a picture of the waiting room on my cellphone.



The British version (DVLA) is much better!

Nope, no DMV horror stories. Never takes more than an hour, even if we go with my wife in civvies and don't get to use the Military Uniform line.

One mark off a pass on my theory test. ONE freaking mark!! ONE!! The bloody test cost me £49 to take as I had taken some "Pass Protection" nonsense, which said I could take up to 3 free re-takes if I had failed by a certain amount. I fail by one mark, then I get told "You can't retake it for free as you didn't do enough revision online. However, as you're clearly annoyed about this we'll let you have the Protection scheme for free next time, but we'll charge you a £3 administration fee we didn't need, ask for or even want last time."

Feth. You.

LordofHats wrote:

The ironic thing is that the NJDMV system (where this incident takes place) is right now quite possibly one of the best in the country, I have never spent more than 5-10 minutes inside of one ever,no matter how long the line has been. It makes me wonder if that episode of Megas (which was done at a time when the NJDMV system was quite possibly the worst in the world) had any influence on the matter (doubt it, but quite possibly possible if someone with some power had a kid who happened to watch the show), as it all changed shortly thereafter.

Deathshead420 wrote:

Good call mate. Good call. All hail Les Claypool: The Master of slap bass.