Texas DMV
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They do everything but serve you complimentary hot towels and desserts. Man what a difference compared to CA. You make an appointment online, but the appointments are available immediately. You walk through the door and someone greets you to ask what you are there for. They hand you the appropriate forms and point you to the kiosk to check in. You go to the next station where they check to see you have all your required paperwork. Then you sit down and fill out the forms while you wait for your number to be called. When your number is called, you go to the window, sit down on a chair, and speak to the pleasant and helpful attendant there. All told, my wife and I spent 25 minutes in DMV offices getting our cars registered last week and our driver licenses today.
I don't want to make anybody feel badly about their lives, but if you live somewhere other than Texas, you are missing out.
@Horace there’s free bj's on offer at the Rhode Island DMV, so ha!
Well, I say free - I didn’t charge for it but I did get my driver’s license renewed without any hiccups as payment in kind. Well, I say without any hiccups, there was quite a bit of hiccuping at one point.
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They do everything but serve you complimentary hot towels and desserts. Man what a difference compared to CA. You make an appointment online, but the appointments are available immediately. You walk through the door and someone greets you to ask what you are there for. They hand you the appropriate forms and point you to the kiosk to check in. You go to the next station where they check to see you have all your required paperwork. Then you sit down and fill out the forms while you wait for your number to be called. When your number is called, you go to the window, sit down on a chair, and speak to the pleasant and helpful attendant there. All told, my wife and I spent 25 minutes in DMV offices getting our cars registered last week and our driver licenses today.
I don't want to make anybody feel badly about their lives, but if you live somewhere other than Texas, you are missing out.
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Identical here in NY. Even down to the same day appointment and the guy handing you the form.
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They do everything but serve you complimentary hot towels and desserts. Man what a difference compared to CA. You make an appointment online, but the appointments are available immediately. You walk through the door and someone greets you to ask what you are there for. They hand you the appropriate forms and point you to the kiosk to check in. You go to the next station where they check to see you have all your required paperwork. Then you sit down and fill out the forms while you wait for your number to be called. When your number is called, you go to the window, sit down on a chair, and speak to the pleasant and helpful attendant there. All told, my wife and I spent 25 minutes in DMV offices getting our cars registered last week and our driver licenses today.
I don't want to make anybody feel badly about their lives, but if you live somewhere other than Texas, you are missing out.
@Horace Glad to hear. The VA DMV tried hard but was always swarmed, and (I'm not racist!) but Northern Virginia has about a billion languages and ethnicities so everything is slowed down to help everyone.
In Minnesota, we had to take a written drivers test, but otherwise the process was pretty easy. Instead of going to a DMV 10 minutes away, we went to one 20 minutes away "in the country" where, as you can imagine, the people were much friendlier. Dontchaknow
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@Horace Glad to hear. The VA DMV tried hard but was always swarmed, and (I'm not racist!) but Northern Virginia has about a billion languages and ethnicities so everything is slowed down to help everyone.
In Minnesota, we had to take a written drivers test, but otherwise the process was pretty easy. Instead of going to a DMV 10 minutes away, we went to one 20 minutes away "in the country" where, as you can imagine, the people were much friendlier. Dontchaknow
@Horace Glad to hear. The VA DMV tried hard but was always swarmed, and (I'm not racist!) but Northern Virginia has about a billion languages and ethnicities so everything is slowed down to help everyone.
In Minnesota, we had to take a written drivers test, but otherwise the process was pretty easy. Instead of going to a DMV 10 minutes away, we went to one 20 minutes away "in the country" where, as you can imagine, the people were much friendlier. Dontchaknow
We have "country" 20 minutes away too, and in fact that's where this DMV office was. A small city called Rosenberg. If you drive away from Houston from where we live, which is on the outskirts of the new developments around the city, you get into farms and ranches very quickly. I think Rosenberg is in that sort of country.
