the DMV non-Blues

Many years ago, the NJ DMV was, shall we say, a national horror story, even among DMV horror stories. So they privatized it, to much at-the-time skepticism.

As part of that privatization, anyone of a certain (legal drinking) age got to renew via mail, to keep the lines down, etc. Which meant that you got to go a number of years without a photo i.d. This was fun, except when people demanded to see photo i.d. and refused to believe that, yes, NJ did allow this. Sometimes even in NJ they refusd to believe this.

I no longer have to worry about it. My license was up for renewal, and the renew-by-mail grace period is no more.

So, with great trepidation I hied myself down to the nearest location to stand in line and get my photo taken.

Less than thirty minutes later I was done. As in, paperwork processed, done with everything, license in hand, we'll see you in four years next please! And the photo (digitalized) is... pretty good, actually. *looks again* Yeah. Good photo.

Amazing. Props to the NJ DMV.


Of course, now I have no excuse not to get to the stuff I was going to spend all morning procrastinating about because I was standing on line...