On my 45th Birthday, my Drivers License expired. It was my bad, I knew they were due to expire, it just totally slipped my mind. On August 29th I realized that I should have renewed the week before, but it was too late.
On Monday August 30th I made the trip to the DMV to be greeted by an employee who was not friendly nor helpful. I would assume she was tired of explaining to people why they could not obtain a Drivers License.
You see, when I stated why I was there, the clerk informed me in a very matter of fact way that the DMV computers were down and no Licenses would be available and there was no projection when the issue would be corrected. I asked if there was something that the DMV could give me to show that I had tried to obtain the License and was given a blunt “NO”. My concern was that I would go through a traffic check and be given a ticket.
I e-mailed the Virginia DMV and in 2 days received an e-mail basically saying the same thing, there was no speculation as to when the computer problem would be corrected and there would be no help given to those who were diligently trying to obtain a license.
I am really bothered by four things. #1. A government agency that is crippled and unable to produce a Drivers License by a computer outage for several days. #2. Employees who are not helpful and unfriendly at the same time. #3. The fact that nothing would be done for those who have operated a vehicle legally for 20 plus years and now have no way of driving legally. #4. If this glitch interrupted the entire state of Virginia, what will happen when something goes wrong with the banks computers, the legal system’s computers, or anything else in 2010 that runs by technology.
Kind of scary, don’t you think?
Ronnie