The Department of Motor Vehicles

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Carl Sandburg once said “Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.” This quote hits home every time I think of a particular place, somewhere nearly every American adult has had the misfortune of spending a day. Somewhere we all spend countless hours standing in lines. A government department plagued with incompetent employees; employees that can turn something as simple as renewing a driver’s license into an all day affair. I am of course, referring to the Department of Motor Vehicles or hell on earth as I often call it. Part of the issue with the DMV, or the Department of Motor Vehicles as it has been hitherto called, is the people - from the customers to the employees. Customers come in completely unprepared, holding up the line while they scramble to get things together once they reach the front. Making a bad situation worse, the customers are often downright rude, to both each other and to the DMV employees, pushing each other, slipping in front of people,...

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