Good luck Kyle, their time frame sounds like the car dealer痴!
Or the DMV. My wait Thursday last was diabolical. I tried to make an appointment, but the soonest I could get was three WEEKS in the future. Three weeks during which the mechanic would have all the excuse he needed to do nothing on the van. Other offices were even worse. So I just showed up and got assigned a hand written number that started with B. They had about four big TV screens hung up across the room over the teller cages that displayed what numbers had been called on the right quarter of the screen, and the rest was taken up with, wait for it, DMV TV! I kid you not! It was mostly fluff stories, but also had ads, some to advertise on, you guessed it, DMV TV!
I thought about taking out an ad asking people if they're bored out of their minds and how they felt about their elected officials not doing something to improve service in this miserable place.
Anyway, my B ticket was 34, and the current number was 20. And there were A, C, D, E, F, and G numbers, too. They don't bother explaining what each letter category means, but I kinda picked up that the G folks were the ones that had appointments, as five of them were called for any of the others. And in the first half hour, three B numbers were called. Then there was a long B dry spell, 90 minutes long! Then they called five more in ten minutes, two of which were no-shows. That left seven after two hours, and I had to be at the optometrist's in an hour. They got through four more Bs in the next half hour (the no-shows were dropping like flies) , then there were two more no-shows, and it was my turn. The guy waiting on me was apologetic, but said he could only give me two one day operation permits to drive the van. Used to be a lot more, but new rules, you understand. Then I also said I wanted to pay the registration and take it off the non-op classification, which is California speak for having a vehicle which you don't actually drive, but for some reason want to keep listed in the California DMV system. The reason you'd want to do that is that they can charge you all the back registration that you would have paid between the last time you paid and the current date. If that's more than a few years, especially for an expensive vehicle (registration cost is in a big part based on the value of the vehicle), you could end up paying several *thousand* bux to register! But in my case, it had only been five months since the vehicle had been transferred into my name, and the rules said I had to pay the whole year's registration cost which was "only" $119. And, since it wasn't on non-op anymore, he could issue a 30 or 60 day operation permit! Just like communism: take everything away so the populace gets desperate, then give 'em a deal where they're still gettin' screwed and they somehow come out feeling sorta good about it. Like feeling better after you stop beating yer head against the wall. Anyway, I told 'im I only wanted a 30 day permit because the idiot mechanic had already been working on it for 2 1/2 years and I didn't want to give him any excuses for dragging it out even longer. All of this transpired in a time much shorter than it took to tell you fine folks about it, and if I hadn't had to stop in the men's room to shake hands with the President after that long wait, it would have taken a bit less. Oh, and first thing when I got there, I pulled out my phone and started a timer so I could tell how much of my life I'd just wasted, and as I walked out the door it told me very close to two hours and thirty five minutes of my time was no longer available for more pleasant pursuits. Now I regret to inform you that, depending on how fast a reader you are, this horrible excuse for a public service has also cost you, dear reader, a significant, though thankfully smaller, slice of your valuable time, and for that I must sincerely beg your forgiveness.:confused2:
