Today, a miracle happened to me.
Jul. 6th, 2015 10:48 pmAt the Registry of Motor Vehicles.
My drivers license expires on my birthday, so I had to go to the RMV to renew it in person. (I have a medical card, so I can't renew online) I had stopped in Thursday last week on the way home from work, and one look at the extremely crowded waiting room had me turning around and heading home.
This morning, on the way into work, I was running ahead of schedule, so I swung past the RMV office near work, and saw that the line was not only out the door, it was around the small parking lot and sticking out into the big parking lot. I just turned around and went on to work.
At work, I was doing my thing, cleaning and repairing stuff, and my ribs, which I had done something unfortunate a week ago, were getting steadily worse. Called my doctor, his office was closed. So I decided to try one of those minute clinics at the CVS stores. Left work and headed over. Went to the wrong CVS in Braintree, then to the other one which had the clinic.
They took my health insurance, so all there was was my usual co-pay. From walking in the door of the store to seeing the NP was about a ten minute wait. She asked some questions, listened to my lungs to verify I hadn't popped a lung, and said that what I had was probably a muscle spasm, which I have had before, or possibly a cracked rib. Since the treatment for both of these was the same. (Take the pain pills and take it easy until it heals) I declined the suggestion I go to an urgent care clinic that had the xray machine to verify.
So I'm headed back to work, and the route back takes me past the RMV. I park and go in, hoping the line would be short. The waiting room was packed, had to have been at least 75 folks there. But they have about eight different wait queues, so I check in and get the form filled out and a number. I amble into the main waiting area, and am scanning for a seat and looking at the sign with the wait queue "now serving" numbers, and I hear my number being called! Yup, that really was my number.
Not even having some to a full stop in the waiting room, and now I'm heading right in to a service clerk. handed her my forms, took the eye test, paid my shot, and a minute later was handed my temporary license. total time in the building was about ten minutes. This was the fastest trip through the RMV I have ever had in my life. Probably will never match or beat it. It was a RMV miracle.
My drivers license expires on my birthday, so I had to go to the RMV to renew it in person. (I have a medical card, so I can't renew online) I had stopped in Thursday last week on the way home from work, and one look at the extremely crowded waiting room had me turning around and heading home.
This morning, on the way into work, I was running ahead of schedule, so I swung past the RMV office near work, and saw that the line was not only out the door, it was around the small parking lot and sticking out into the big parking lot. I just turned around and went on to work.
At work, I was doing my thing, cleaning and repairing stuff, and my ribs, which I had done something unfortunate a week ago, were getting steadily worse. Called my doctor, his office was closed. So I decided to try one of those minute clinics at the CVS stores. Left work and headed over. Went to the wrong CVS in Braintree, then to the other one which had the clinic.
They took my health insurance, so all there was was my usual co-pay. From walking in the door of the store to seeing the NP was about a ten minute wait. She asked some questions, listened to my lungs to verify I hadn't popped a lung, and said that what I had was probably a muscle spasm, which I have had before, or possibly a cracked rib. Since the treatment for both of these was the same. (Take the pain pills and take it easy until it heals) I declined the suggestion I go to an urgent care clinic that had the xray machine to verify.
So I'm headed back to work, and the route back takes me past the RMV. I park and go in, hoping the line would be short. The waiting room was packed, had to have been at least 75 folks there. But they have about eight different wait queues, so I check in and get the form filled out and a number. I amble into the main waiting area, and am scanning for a seat and looking at the sign with the wait queue "now serving" numbers, and I hear my number being called! Yup, that really was my number.
Not even having some to a full stop in the waiting room, and now I'm heading right in to a service clerk. handed her my forms, took the eye test, paid my shot, and a minute later was handed my temporary license. total time in the building was about ten minutes. This was the fastest trip through the RMV I have ever had in my life. Probably will never match or beat it. It was a RMV miracle.