My son wanted to get a new TX drivers license to replace his expired CA license. We left here about noon and we got home about 8 PM. When you have to ride the buses it takes all day to just do one little thing.
Of course, they would not give him a TX license for his expired CA license. So Jimmy has a state ID and will have to go back someday and take the written, vision and driving test. The driving part will be hard since we do not have a car.
I still have a FL license and I did not get a replacement. I did not want to spend the money. This is my dry part of the month when I am broke. If it is a choice between a new drivers license and eating, for some reason, I take eating.
We spent hours and hours on the buses. We first had to take the #26 (Ridgmar Mall/Normandale) bus to Ridgmar Mall. Then we had to take the #2 to the downtown Transfer Center. Then we had to take the #6 (8th Ave/McCart/Hulen Mall) bus to the DPS (drivers license place).
The DPS was busy but it did not take long for Jimmy to get his state ID. I am not sure how long it would take to get fully tested. For the driving test the first thing they do is test you for parallel parking. I watch two different 16 year old boys try and parallel park. The first one could not even get close. The second one got in between the poles bun no where near the curb.
Riding buses is no fun. I am talking city buses. If you spent much time during the day you are going to get the mental subject just out of the hospital still with his hospital arm bands on…talking to only the voices he hears. You wonder if they are going to go off. Then you got the young black men … pants falling off…You always get one of them that can not find their bus pass…They are loud on the bus and talking to each other and people at the end of the bus at the other end. Then you got the young black woman talking to each other and screaming and laughing and talking non stop on the cell phones.
Plus when we came out of the DSP at the bus stop for 20 minutes we had to watch a middle aged white woman hugging, kissing and petting a very old black guy. They did it for 20 minutes at the bus stop and then she was petting the guy on he bus. Then she was pissed at him for some reason. Then they made up and she put on her makeup on the bus. You just got to love bus travel.
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