Runaround without accomplishing anything...

So I finally decided it was time to break down and get a Utah license. I skipped Idaho altogether and was all Washington there with my license and car, but after a year in Utah and my license and car registration both expiring, and looking at the law...I decided it was time. My birthday is coming up so yay, it's time to renew my license. Who thought of such a wonderful gift?? I was planning on going this week sometime but the week slipped by quickly. Chris went out of town Wednesday morning for Scout camp with the boys from our ward. So now I need to find someone to watch the kids while I go do it. Today (thur) I decided Friday would be best, but then I looked at my notes and realized it was closed on Friday. My friend Mandy was just about to put her son down for a nap so 4:30 was the best time for her. So I am cutting it short since the office closes at 6, but that's enough time if you have the right information. I scoured the website multiple times to make sure I had everything. In Utah you need either passport or birth certificate, previous license, social security card or w-2, and 2 things to prove where you live (from their list). I could not find my passport! But I read it again and saw that I could just bring my birth certificate and thought, perfect, I have that on hand, no big deal. So I go to the office. I watch three people get sent away for not having the right identification and I am thinking, I have got it all, there is no way I can be denied. I haven't photocopied anything, I have it all. So I pull it all out and the man is nice enough, until he sees my birth certificate with Dickson and everything else says Sant. That's when he tells me I have to have something verifying the name change! I pointed out that my SS card was changed and my license and they definitely checked that before...but no i had to have my marriage certificate. Why couldn't that have been written in the bullet next to you can also bring your birth certificate, but be sure to bring documentation for the name change. I looked online just now and found the words but it was in the paragraph before all of the listing of documents needed so I hadn't read it. It was there though, annoying.

So, there was no Utah license for me today, it takes at least 10 minutes to get from the south end of Logan to North Logan...its only 5 miles but it takes some time. Since my friend was watching the kids though I figured I could at least finish up my registration requirements and get that done. I already had the safety inspection 2 weeks ago and got my windshield replaced, I just needed to finish the paperwork at the DMV. Chris tried to do it before we left for Washington for Jeremy's wedding but when he came in with the registration and safety inspection the lady at the office asked "which vehicle are you trying to register?" Chris, a little annoyed, says "Subaru Forester" (duh!). But then the lady pointed out that the registration was for the subaru but the safety inspection was for some completely different car, a honda or something. When Chris took the car in to get the safety inspection switched from fail to pass the guy must have neglected to type washington license plate in b/c he printed out a safety inspection for a utah license plate with the exact same number! What chances that that would be in his same system. Whatever, it took a while but Chris got the correct one printed out but didn't have time to take it back to the DMV seeing as they are on different sides of town. Anyway, so I have the new safety inspection with me and figure it will be a piece of cake. The lady looks at my info and says "the vin numbers don't match. This one has an A and this one has an 1." My initial reaction was annoyance at the car shop. Really they messed up again?? So I just left and wen on to the car shop to have them fix there mistake. What I should have done is gone outside and looked at my vin right there....but instead I drove to the shop, then looked at it. Their vin number was correct, the wa registration had it wrong! So for almost 5 years the vin has been wrong...maybe forever since wa doesn't really check. So then I had to figure out what to do from there. I found the number for the DMV to ask them just that. All I need to do is to get a second vin verification and then I can take that it along with the registration and safety inspection and should be good to go. So now i have a trip to the Police station to have them vin verify and I should be golden.

Plus, I found my passport once I looked a little harder. I would have looked harder if I hadn't seen that I could bring my birth certificate in instead. I guess it makes sense that I would need something telling of the name change seeing as there would be no connection from my birth certificate to anything else. How would they know that Elizabeth dickson really is Elizabeth Sant now. Maybe I (Elizabeth Sant) just stole Elizabeth dickson's birth certificate. Haha. Whatever. It should all get worked out but not until Monday. Just kind of funny. amazing how many things can not work all in one hour.