DMV

We're gradually getting auto paperwork we needed, and so yesterday I went to the DMV to finish up things to get the new plates for the Mitsubishi. Don had everything done except they had to check the vehicle number to be sure it matched. While I was doing that, Don went to get some new screws for the plate cause the old ones were stripped.

Maybe I looked like a suspicious character, cause the guy who waited on me was taking a long time looking over all the paperwork to be sure it was in order. I guess he wasn't the one who waited on Don, so it was all new to him. We had to have a letter from Vanessa and copies of her ID as the name Haugen and Bradley since she signed her Bradley name to the title that was in her Haugen name.

Meanwhile...and this is the story...there was an elderly gentleman beside me who was having difficulty getting his driver's license because his name and birthdate didn't match on the paperwork he had. As it turned out, he was born in 1919...same year as Don's dad. I could tell by the conversation that he was in a fix...both not understanding and trying to convince the lady that the documents he had should take care of things. And her trying to convince him that there wasn't anything she could do because his ID didn't match the computer. I was hoping Don would come before I finished, cause I was sure he could help the man get the proper documents. It appeared he was going to have to go to immigration to get those documents.

Well, Don finally got there, and I motioned him to come over. I told him to listen to the conversation, and eventually he began to intercede for the man. In short, he asked a few questions and discovered the guy had immigrated many years ago, and his name was misspelled and his birthdate inaccurate on several documents. The one document that had his name right didn't indicate when he was born. Then he said he had an expired passport but didn't know if he could find it. They would take that. So Don told him to go home and see if he could find it, and if not Don told him he would take him to Sacramento to immigration to get the proper documents.

Later on, I got a call from "Johnnie" and he had found his passport. So Don called him and made arrangements to pick him up this morning and take him to DMV. As it turned out, he still had to go to Social Security to get that changed so the computer would accept his info. So Don took him down to Chico and got that cared for. Don and I had a funeral to attend at 11:00, so Don took Johnnie home and then picked him up after the funeral and went back to DMV. We are happy to report that Johnnie now has his driver's license and is happy as a lark. Of course he wanted to pay Don, and of course Don refused but agreed to let him and his wife of 60 years to take us out to eat on their wedding anniversary that's coming up in a while.