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What i have learned so far in 2 weeks at the DMV
or Adventures in Stereotyping
-A ridiculously high proportion of the general public does not know their own phone number.
-Of those that do, about a third are paranoid and guard it jealously. We're the fucking DMV, we don't sell your goddamn phone numbers. When I ask for it anyway, they lean in and whisper it as though someone is going to overhear and totally use this information to stir up some evil shenanigans.
-People lie left, right, and sideways about how much they paid for their vehicles. Oh, you got a five year-old car for $250? Of course you did.
-White people smell weird.
-Black people almost always pay cash.
-Chinese and Japanese people have an irrational fear of plates containing 4s and 9s. (The words for "death" and "four" are homophones, as are "nine" and "pain". What I want to know is how this was allowed to happen in the development of the languages.)
-Vietnamese people prefer 7s, 8s, and 9s.
-Old Indian people will not sit in cars whose plate numbers add up to 13.
-Children really are horrible creatures.
-Baby boomers tend to whine the most about how much cheaper all this was back in the day and how much better it is to go to a state-owned office (ours is contracted to an agency) and how inconvenient it is that they can only get two-year registration for their even-year vehicle in even years.
-No matter how much signage you try to put up, no matter how clearly you try to explain it on those signs, no matter where you put ropes to section off a separate line for titling, no matter how often you tell people, at least a third of them are stupid fucks who get in the wrong line. (No, I don't give a shit if you "need new plates". Half the drivers in Missouri still need them. You are not a unique snowflake. New plates are part of everyone's renewal. Renewals are over on that side, with the two big signs that say "renewals". Now get out of my goddamn titling line.)
-Old people are still cute.
-Groundhogs live behind our building.
I should probably mention that so far, this job is actually pretty decent.
or Adventures in Stereotyping
-A ridiculously high proportion of the general public does not know their own phone number.
-Of those that do, about a third are paranoid and guard it jealously. We're the fucking DMV, we don't sell your goddamn phone numbers. When I ask for it anyway, they lean in and whisper it as though someone is going to overhear and totally use this information to stir up some evil shenanigans.
-People lie left, right, and sideways about how much they paid for their vehicles. Oh, you got a five year-old car for $250? Of course you did.
-White people smell weird.
-Black people almost always pay cash.
-Chinese and Japanese people have an irrational fear of plates containing 4s and 9s. (The words for "death" and "four" are homophones, as are "nine" and "pain". What I want to know is how this was allowed to happen in the development of the languages.)
-Vietnamese people prefer 7s, 8s, and 9s.
-Old Indian people will not sit in cars whose plate numbers add up to 13.
-Children really are horrible creatures.
-Baby boomers tend to whine the most about how much cheaper all this was back in the day and how much better it is to go to a state-owned office (ours is contracted to an agency) and how inconvenient it is that they can only get two-year registration for their even-year vehicle in even years.
-No matter how much signage you try to put up, no matter how clearly you try to explain it on those signs, no matter where you put ropes to section off a separate line for titling, no matter how often you tell people, at least a third of them are stupid fucks who get in the wrong line. (No, I don't give a shit if you "need new plates". Half the drivers in Missouri still need them. You are not a unique snowflake. New plates are part of everyone's renewal. Renewals are over on that side, with the two big signs that say "renewals". Now get out of my goddamn titling line.)
-Old people are still cute.
-Groundhogs live behind our building.
I should probably mention that so far, this job is actually pretty decent.