Well its official. I am now a licensed and registered West Virginia State resident.
I got up early today and made my way to the DMV before work. In order to get my driver's license and new plates for my car. Sad Day.
I took some photos to commemorate this horrible day.
The before shot....
Got to love that beautiful blue license plate. :)
Here is the after shot...
Ugly gold and blue.
In West Virginia--you register your car for 2 years!! Which i thought was weird. You also only pay a flat rate for registration--unlike Minnesota, where you pay for how new or old your car is.
You also only get one plate--for the back of your car. Everyone here has a "vanity" plate on the front, I am thinking i need to find a Minnesota vanity plate for the front! :)
Plus, in WV when you get your license--they take your fingerprints and they make your driver's license right there, and you walk out the door with it that day. Which was kind of nice--no paper license to carry around for weeks! On a positive note, i actually like my Driver's License photo--it turned out pretty good!
All i need to do now is get my inspection sticker. Each year you have to take your car to a mechanic and they have to check it out and make sure it is "safe" to drive on the Mountain roads of West Virginia. I have 10 days to get that done--then it will be really official.
When i was at the driver's license station, there was a woman standing next to me finishing her paperwork. She overheard that i was from MN and all that jazz. She started asking me questions, about the weather (on a side note: that is the first question everyone here asks me. "How cold is it there." Like its the Arctic or something.) Anyway....I turned to look at her while she was talking and all i could notice was that she had not one tooth in her whole mouth! NOT ONE!! She would not stop talking either--I kept trying to keep myself from starring at her toothless mouth as she kept smacking her gums. The look on my face must have been pretty good.
Good Grief.
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