Friday, January 11

Man vs. DMV

Fresh off the sinking feeling of defeat and misery, I awake this morning timid, yet vengeful at the same time. I check the Smash Bros. Dojo, observe Olimar's awesome special attacks, check the Facebook group for my new radio show (Fridays, 5:30 - 7 in the evening), and refresh my soul in a marathon shower. I watch the Price is Right on blurry CBS, which may have something to do with the obscure thunderstorm last night, but probably has everything to do with the cable company slowly and deviously forcing us to upgrade. Afterwards, I leave for another date with the devious DMV.

Yesterday, I was cocky. Yesterday, I was the favorite (in my mind, at least). I walked into the DMV yesterday, sat down at the oversized DS touch screen, and took the driver's knowledge test. Here's how I did (keeping in mind I needed 15 of 18 correct):
Q1: Wrong
Q2: Wrong
Q3: Wrong
Q4: Correct!
Q5: Wrong. Go away.

Deeply humbled by this embarressing performance, I was forced to actually open the book and read it. Damnit. Well, today, the crowds were much larger and the wait was more noticable. This was a date with fate. Could I possibly improve from one right to 15? Saturday would be my last chance before the Second Semester should I fail again and God above knows that would be a Nightmare on the weekend. I finally sit down at their DS screen. Here we go.
Q1: Correct!
Q2: Correct!
Q3: Correct!
Q4: Correct!
Q5: Correct!
Q6: Skip (if needed, I would come back to this one at the end)
Q7: Correct!
Q8: Correct!
Q9: Wrong
Q10: Correct!
Q11: Correct!
Q12: Wrong
Q13-17: Correct!
Q18... I don't know the answer. If I get this wrong, then I go back to the one I skipped, which I also don't know. This is do or die right here. Shit. I pick the answer that I like asthetically, confirm the answer.... Correct! Thank Dole! Now I can procrastinate actually learning to drive!

Lunch: In celebration, we got McDonald's drive through. The guy who took my Mom's money at the window was very peculiar, however. He randomly said, "Alright, are you ready for this information?" I look at my Mom in confusion. "Go to www.yesrecords.net and click on 'Artists.' Go to the bottom right hand corner of the page." WTF?! Is he advertising himself or something? Sure enough, I check it out upon my return home and our fat drive through guy is some Christian rock recording artist or something. Picture and all. Again, WTF?! If you wanna check him out, go right ahead. As for what I actually had for lunch, I got a quarter pounder with cheese, fries, and a coke. Solid effort.

I do absolutely nothing the rest of the day until dinner. SOOO boring.

Dinner: Mom made calzones, with cheese, sauce, and some other stuff. Pretty tasty.

Rest of night... we play Scattegories, which was fun. But even that could not shake the feeling that I was severely bored. Oh well. Smash in less than a month...

-Professor Nesto

3 comments:

meredith said...

congrats on your permit. i hate the dmv with a passion so good news is you wont have to go there in atleast 6 months =)

Dbenyishay said...

I think we can actually go anytime we want to get our licenses now that we're over 18. So Erik, Ian, how about it??

Professor Nesto said...

Well, you must remember, I'm a cripple, and therefore still can't drive in a default car. I'm going to need a cripple mobile before I can even begin to learn...