Bird
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Yep, it's a mystery to me, too, Don. I DID have to take my birth certificate, so they sure knew (or should have known) my age. Two employees there looked it over BEFORE the one who did the actual renewal, and she looked at it, too. AND she had my old driver's license as well.Interesting. At the bottom of the page it says 2021 and cites the Transportation code sections. There is not much in that law than can be an an opinion and it should be state wide. It's a mystery. When I took my mom they went exactly by the book - in person, vision test and over 85 good for 2 years only (and she had to produce a birth certificate).
Is there any possibility that your driving record is taken into consideration? I sure didn't think so, but my last traffic ticket was when I was 23 years old; 58 years ago and a year before I became a police officer. I also supervised the department's safety officers at one time. And the last accident I was even involved in was when I was rear ended by a young lady on a downhill slope on a rain slick street about 17 years ago. Even with some high speed chases that ended with the vehicles I was chasing crashing, I was never involved in the crash.
Yep, I'm proud of my record and figure I'm as good a driver as I've ever known.

And the only reason I went into the new DPS office last week to start with was to see what it was like because my daughter has had so many problems getting appointments in another city for my granddaughter to get her license. So today is the granddaughter's birthday; she's 17 and hopes to finally get her license today at this new DPS office.
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