{"id":1159,"date":"2008-05-14T08:55:26","date_gmt":"2008-05-14T15:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/?p=1159"},"modified":"2008-05-14T08:55:26","modified_gmt":"2008-05-14T15:55:26","slug":"recent-trip-to-the-dmv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/14\/recent-trip-to-the-dmv\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Trip to the DMV"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin: 10px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/2008\/05\/dmv.jpg\" alt=\"San Mateo DMV Office\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Recently I had to physically go to the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to renew my driver&#8217;s license. I&#8217;d already renewed by mail twice and that&#8217;s the limit because they want you to pass an eye test. The photo to the right is the actual DMV office snapped on my handy iPhone. When I left, I was frustrated from the experience and a friend forwarded me this joke coincidentally:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAfter spending 3-1\/2 hours enduring the long lines, surly clerks and insane regulations at the Department of Motor Vehicles, I stopped at a toy store to pick up a gift for my son. <\/p>\n<p>I brought my selection, a baseball bat, to the cash register. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cash or charge?&#8221; the clerk asked. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cash,&#8221; I snapped. <\/p>\n<p>Then apologizing for my rudeness , I explained, &#8220;I&#8217;ve spent the afternoon at the motor-vehicle bureau.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Shall I giftwrap the bat?&#8221; the clerk asked sweetly, &#8220;or are you going back there?&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let&#8217;s just say it was a happy coincidence and jolted me out of my surly mood. Thanks Raja!<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I had to physically go to the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to renew my driver&#8217;s license. I&#8217;d already renewed by mail twice and that&#8217;s the limit because they want you to pass an eye test. The photo to the right is the actual DMV office snapped on my handy iPhone. When I left, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}