I presented all my paperwork for my Montana license 10 days ago (2nd shot since we’d driven to Cut Bank a couple days before to try) and the examiner (who does her job a little too gleefully) told me I’d have to take all the Montana tests because I didn’t have the hard copy of my Minnesota license. (Thank you Minnesota for refusing to send licenses out of state and for being so bleeping slow in sending ID documents.) So… I took the written test and failed it. (I’m sorry — there were no laws about why you shouldn’t hit cattle in the road in Minnesota or Ohio where I previously had passed tests.) And lo, there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth and whining on my part because after having my license for a month, I suddenly had no license again. When you live 25 miles in between two towns, this is a really sucky thing.
We drove to Cut Bank today and after studying last night, I took the written test and passed. I then took the road test and passed by the skin of my teeth. (As I said, the examiner does her job a little too gleefully and none of the testers in Minnesota or Ohio were that detail-oriented.) So… I FINALLY HAVE A REAL BONAFIDE DRIVER’S LICENSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
On the way home, we stopped by the post office to get the mail and there was a letter from the DPS in Minnesota. Apparently, they rejected my license application because I had a MN state ID card (which I found this morning while cleaning my purse) and you can’t have both the card and the license. So… I wouldn’t have had the MN license to begin with and I’m probably just going to send my ID card to St. Paul and tell them to use it for target practice.
What a pain… That reminds me of when I went to get my license… nowhere in the little drivers license book does it say what’s an acceptable way to prove your residency in the state of NH… they just assume that you know already. What I was supposed to have was either two official-ish pieces of mail like an electric bill that were sent to my home in my name or a notorized letter stating I lived in the state of NH… so I get up to the counter, I don’t have that, and I’m sent away… We have a friend who worked upstairs at the DMV who’s the secretary for the commissioner of the department of saftey and since she’s a notary, I figured I’d just have her quickly type up a letter and sign it and then go back downstairs and get in line again… and she says, “Oh! I don’t need to do that! Let me call downstairs!” So she did, and then they let me take my drivers license, no problem…. We probably wouldn’t have gotten away with that in some states… but here in NH… I guess it’s good enough.
Yaaay!! Way to go jen! There is so much freedom in being able to drive and go wherever you want to go. Enjoy!