Well, Ack!

So, I mentioned this morning about the driver’s license problem and I spiffed up and went off to get the deed done. Well, there was no new picture; they just ran off a computer copy of my old license with the amended expiration date and told me the new real license would be mailed to the bureau itself and they would call me when it arrived. It was easy, but I had really begun to look forward to getting rid of the old picture because I had scrutinized it before I went in so I would actually want to go to the trouble of getting a new license. I scowled at the fat, beady-eyed face . . . and now that’s me again for a few more years.

Do NOT expect me to scan it and post it here . . . better a line drawing – circle, two dots of eyes, dash for a nose and a slash for my mouth.

Early Sam forgets

Usually during election season, Early Sam, an early morning regular at the Peanut Butter Cafe & Roadhouse, takes his hearing aids out before he even comes through the door. This morning he forgot, but thought it was all right because I have been reticent about saying much this election, other than my usual, “I can’t stand Joe Biden.”

BUT, Sam had not been around when I discovered that my online-renewed Driver’s License for the State of Indiana had been lost in the mail. They can’t mail you another; you have to go to the BMV and get a new one – and today I am doing that. Putting on a nice blouse and scrubbing my face and going to stand in line. I have been grousing. I had accepted the fact that my former license picture, crappy as it was, was going to be with me for more years.

Now I have to go and stand there and “Do not smile” – they tell you that – and then look at an older crappy picture. Plus, like I really want to go down there.

I think Early Sam was upset because he has trouble getting his hearing aids out quickly with his arthritis. I took pity; I helped him. He didn’t look at me because he has learned how to read lips . . .

Drat having to go to the bureau and, yes, I can’t stand that buffoon, Joe Biden! As a lot of people say, he’s the best bodyguard Obama has.