Stupid DMV...

[miastarrx]

OK, here is my extrapolated little circumstance - I am trying to get a California driver's license and the DMV here are really stupid. That's the short version. I'm hoping that perhaps a foreign national who got their California license can tell me what the procedure was, because the DMV can't seem to get their story straight

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[ex_ladyvox549]

>Funny I had one person demand to see my drivers license when I tried to cash a travellers cheque...so I gave them my UK one which has no picture (it's a piece of paper) and the look on their face.

Ha, I hear you!:) I sometimes get really tired of them looking funny at my passport while asking for an ID.. so once when I was trying to buy some alcohol at the Publix I just decided to give them what they asked for: my drivers licence. The Dutch drivers licence does have a picture on it, but is a long, folded in 3 parts, PINK piece of floppy paper. I think I know what kind of look they had on their face when you showed them your drivers licence! *laughs* After the girl had scratched her head and told me that wasn't a drivers licence or that at least she couldn't take it as proper ID, I presented her my passport.. just to confuse her even more. She excused herself and went to the back of the store to ask the manager whether a passport was a proper and valid ID.. Geesh, I was about to go crazy from laughing. Silly Americans sometimes *smiles*

Those kind of happenings are rather annoying when they occur but do make funny stories to tell :)

[major_beefcake]

Oh the other thing I have done is when they have asked me for my social I gave them my English National Insurance number (pretty much the same as a social) and it's of the form
XX ## ## ## X
Letters in a SSN? Not enough characters! OMG. Hello? I'm not American!

I still pull little stunts like that every now and then. Usually when the person is being a jerk and then I become all "high and mighty" Brit and rip them a new arse hole :)