It's hard to tell from inside the house how much ice we got. Not enough to knock out the power (yay!). The road appears to have been plowed, but hardly anyone is driving. I hear a car go by every few minutes, but at this time of day there'd normally be a constant flow of traffic.
I realized this morning that haircut or no haircut, I have to go to the DMV today. Because Wednesday is completely booked up (have to go to Lina's appt in Raleigh in the morning, and do the quarterly taxes and W2s for Stoneline in the afternoon) and Thursday is the day it expires. Which is cutting it way too close. Damn. In a perverse way I'm sort of hoping I get a terrible picture with a stupid look on my face. Because then it won't matter that my hair looks so bad.
My friend Chandra suggested I should just let it expire, go next week, and pay whatever fine they ask. Not because of the haircut, but because the lines are so bad. She said she'd heard of people getting there when they open and waiting all day without getting their license. But according to the people I know who've actually been there in the past couple of weeks, it's bad but not that bad. Besides, I've had enough horrible run-ins with the DMV to think that deliberately letting my license expire would be a very bad thing.
Once, years ago, I accidently let my insurance lapse. I had two cars at the time (thank god) so I said that I hadn't driven one of the two cars at all the whole time I was uninsured (Which was more or less true, though probably not entirely true. But I did drive one of the cars more often). I had to turn in the plate of the car that I had been driving, and the guy at the DMV gave me some kind of extension on the other car so I could keep driving it. After a month I had to bring evidence about which car I had been driving (letters from my boss, neighbors, etc) to a hearing where they could have taken away the plate for the other car too. But fortunately they did not, just charged me a fine. Oh and my insurance went up too. Which made no sense -- I wasn't in an accident or anything. But anyway, the point is that DMV are not into cutting people a break because of circumstances. So I don't think I'll be waiting until next week to get my license renewed.
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Letting your license expire is an infraction. Letting your insurance lapse is a misdemeanor. They're not comparable.
you're probably already off on your license mission-- but should you see this first-- the main thing is to determine if they have a separate line for license renewals, and be sure to get in it if they do. then you won't be in the same line as the folks who are desperately trying to get their licenses or id cards before february 2nd. the renewal line doesn't move along as fast as it should, but it moves along a hell of a lot faster than the other line (compare 2 hours to 4-5 hours, which is how it was in Cary as far as i could tell).