Here is an example of what is wrong with our country. I moved to Chicago. A year and a half ago, but my Michigan driver's license is just now expiring. I need a new one. So I decide to take advantage of my lunch hour. I go to the license bureau, walk and wait in line for ten minutes- I need to go to the Secretary of State. Walk back, there goes lunch hour. Go to Secretary of State the next day. Wait in line, and turns out I need my Social Security Card, despite that I have a valid license in Michigan. My card happens to be in Michigan, so I head to the Social Security Office. There could not be more miserable people waiting in line, and I will stop myself from making any racial or socioeconomic comments about who was there. So I come back the next day when I have more time, wait in line for 40 minutes and don't get halfway through the numbers that are before me. Realize I'll never get it this way. In a few weeks I finally get my Social Security Card from Michigan and go to the Secretary of State building. Of course after I make it through line 1, get a number, get to a window, get through line 2 at the cashier, and line 3 to get the test, I have 15 minutes left for the rest of the process. I take a rain check and return Monday, to find out I have to go through every aforementioned line again- line, number, wait, window, line, line. Saved me about 5-10 minutes by coming back the second time. Take the damn test, line to get it scored. Then line to get a picture, and line to get final license given to me. At long last I left feeling like I was holding the holy grail and stupefied that after all that, I was actually able to get it at all. At least our tax dollars are going to good purpose.
Daily Doses of Psychosis
Not-so-daily snippets of the social and mental world we, and more importantly I, live in. It might drive you nuts- I sure am.


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