Last week, while waiting to get new prescription for ADD meds, I got bored (that's the ADD part) and started to organize my wallet. I discovered that my driver's license did not expire on my birthday in 2011, but on my birthday in 2010. Whoops. The WA DOL website wouldn't let me renew it on-line because it had expired over 60 days ago. I was instructed to go into the Lacey office.
chordam7 drove me there and we settled in for a long wait because the website said that the average wait time was 40 minutes. I took the visual test, forked over $35, posed for my picture, and received a paper copy within 15 minutes walking in the building.
On the way home, CHord noticed that his car was handling weird and discovered one of his tires was low on air. He pulled into a gas station and filled it but there was something wrong with the stem, and air came rushing back out. There was a tire store across the street (really!), so we went there. The tire was hissing like Hugin at flea dipping time.
The man there did some work that involved kicking the tire and hitting it with a hammer (among other things). Whatever he did, he fixed it. CHord asked him what the charge was, and the man said $5. So, if you ever need tire work done--this seems a good place to go:
Rodriguez Tire Shop
1302 College Street Southeast
Lacey, WA 98503-2333
(360) 491-4107