Hello everyone! It's been quite a while hasn't it? Usually I can make about a post a week, but it's been SO crazy that I've never really had any time to make a full-on one >.< How have you all been? Ready for the holidays?
Last Friday, I just finished the last of my final exams and now I'm officially on winter break! However, it was the most hectic and stressful Friday that I've ever had in my life T__T I got into a car accident in the morning in the parking lot on the way to my exam because the other driver cut across several open parking spots and hit my car because she was confused about where she was(don't worry, neither of us drivers got hurt!), but that's not where the problem was...
So the officer needed to ask the drivers for their license's so he could keep a record, right? Well the other driver gave hers and her insurance papers/registration card, and I handed him mine.
Then he asked me, "Were you driving by yourself?". And I said yes, of course, but then he said the STRANGEST thing ever that totally floored me.
"You're not supposed to because you still have a Learner's License."
I laughed at first because I KNEW I took and passed the test for my Driver's License back in JUNE, and I got my driver's license, and have been driving for the past 6 months by myself- no accidents or anything. So I told him that must have been a mistake and that I'd hand him my actual license.
But then I got really confused...because when I looked at the one I just handed him, ALL of the info on the permit I just handed him had my Driver's License info and my Driver's License photo on it. The only thing different was that it said Learner's License.
Which made no sense because why would I take a DRIVER'S LICENSE EXAM for ANOTHER Learner's Permit??
So I FREAKED OUT because he had to issue me a ticket/citation for having "driven illegally by myself without an actual driver's license", which would mean I'd have to take an online course/pay $154/go to court to have 3 points put on my license.
My gosh.
So I sat and thought it over in the parking lot as my car was getting towed, and I realized two things:
1) There's no way in askghlasdhg that I could have missed something as big as it being a Learner's License...I've had it for 6 months!!
Until I put it back into the section of my wallet where I had it before.
The entire top part that said "Florida Learner's License Class E" in small print was covered up by the framing of my wallet, which is the reason why I never noticed.
2)The DMVs office made a HUGE mistake that got me this ticket: They had issued me the wrong one without telling me.
So at this point, I was completely angry at the DMVs office, and frazzled by the incident. I had an exam that was supposed to take place from 10am-12pm.
It was already 10:50am.
So my mom decided to drop me off to take the exam at the university, and I was really stunned by the fact that my professor said the people re-taking the exam really only had an hour, not two hours, to finish the exam.
However, he was really kind and understanding of my situation and said he'd stay another hour to let me finish since that was the allotted time for the exam formally. So I took the exam, frazzled and all.
After the exam, my mom, my sister and I decided to go to the DMVs office so we could challenge the ticket/citation in court later with a record/evidence from the DMVs office admitting its mistake. We really thought it'd be no big deal: They keep records and know I passed the exam, so all the people at the DMVs office had to do was say sorry, print out a note/record on their behalf that we could show in court and be on their merry way.
I had NO idea how much of a (excuse my language) douche the manager of the DMVs office was going to be.
I SWEAR I have NEVER met ANYONE that was as much of a jerk as she was. If I could curse, I would, to explain to you guys the extent to which this lady was so ridiculous. I decided that if I wanted evidence for the court about our being at the DMVs office, I'd secretly record the convo via my phone, so I did. But MAN, I had NO idea omg...
So we explained our situation to the guy at the desk first, who tried to help us, but then he came across a question he couldn't answer and decided to call his manager.
Then all hell broke loose. I'm not even kidding.
The manager at the DMVs office came up with SO much crap.... the entire thing was just ridiculous. She made it sound like we were trying to scam the DMVs office into giving us a new license? AND she kept making excuses about how they have ABSOLUTELY NO PRINTERS TO PRINT ANY SORT OF PAPER/NOTE/RECORDS which makes NO sense because they use papers all the time at the office to give driving exams. PLUS she made up things like saying that my learner's license was broken which is why they issued me a no fee duplicate? Why would I take a DRIVER'S LICENSE EXAM if I was there for ANOTHER learner's permit that was BROKEN(which it wasn't)?? She wasn't even there! AND she went on to blame my MOM, yes, my MOM who wasn't even AT the driver's license exam for "giving her daughter permission to drive around a deadly weapon illegally". Like WHAT. THE. AKSDGHLASHDG.
I could go on and on and ONNNN about this, but basically she is the most ANNOYING, RIDICULOUS, CRAZY woman I've ever met in my life. And I swear it will go back to get her one day. She just didn't want to admit the office's mistake in printing me the wrong license. I admit my mistake in not noticing it earlier, but it's THEIR responsibility to admit that they DID in fact, print me the wrong one despite my having passed the exam, and THAT'S what got me the ticket/citation, not illegal driving.
I've gotta be careful what I say online, so I will probably delete this later, but you guys have NO idea how much this situation has been bothering me. I WILL challenge this. I should not get penalized for a mistake that THEY made. It's ridiculous. If the people at the DMVs office's responsibility is to serve the people, well that lady was CERTAINLY NOT the prime example of that. She said MUCH more outside of what I mentioned, but basically she was the crappiest person I've ever met in my life. I've never cursed so many times at home in one day.
It's going to be a long winter break. But basically, this will be the majority of it.
I'm going to try to finish my SS gifts in time...but with about a week left to go, we'll see if I can finish both of my gifts in time. >.<
Sorry for the unpleasant way to return to DA/theOtaku haha, but really it's been a terrible past couple of days besides New Year's Eve, which I watched with my sister yesterday(and loved!).
I hope you all are having a fabulous holiday break! Take care of yourselves~
