Wednesday, February 4, 2009

DMV

Joel and I woke up at 6:00 a.m. this morning to go to the DMV and get our Utah drivers licenses. Apparently, Utah has no grace period for people who moved from out of state, and we have been driving illegally for a while now. I suppose we probably had some leeway while we were students, but I have not truly lived in Oklahoma for 8 years now; Joel hasn't lived in Arizona for 10. LAWBREAKERS! Luckily, neither of us have ever been pulled over since we've been committing this crime, so we were never caught. So we don't break too many laws. Only the ones that require standing in line at the DMV to abide them.
Anyway, since we had to take a written test on driving rules, we made a little wager that whoever got the higher score would choose where we went to eat on Valentine's day. We had Dane with us, so we took turns taking the test. Joel went first, and the man who processed the test results informed me of the score to beat, and Joel filled him in on our wager. Meanwhile, I took the test (which was open book, by the way) amidst conflicting feelings of wanting to beat Joel and not wanting to make him late for work.

We tied.

The DMV man shook his head and laughed. Then it became obvious that he had shared our story with several other workers because a woman told me she was disappointed in me for not beating Joel. And we don't even get our licenses yet; we just get these lame temporary paper ones until the real one comes in two to six weeks. How lame is that? In Oklahoma, they give it to you right then and there.
But the point is, we need another wager to determine who will choose our Valentine's restaurant. Suggestions are appreciated.

Here are a few pictures of Dane enraptured by a balloon:




5 comments:

Evan said...

Oregon gives them to you immediately too...Utah, always behind the times. I think that you should do a "who knows who best" test. Each of you should come up with ten random questions about your lives and see who can answer the most correctly. And of course, you should make yours more obscure than Joel's so that you win......
Evan is also a law breaker because his Utah license expired on his birthday even though we got it replaced in April of last year....Utah :(

Rika Burr said...

clearly this matter could be settled by a round of gin: person with the highest points at the end of 5 rounds is the winner. this is how i have won multiple things from dad such as: $120 to spend at warped tour, money to go towards my kate spade purse, lunch at ted's, this jacket that i am currently wearing, and a pizza.

of course if this does not work out, you could always pull the wife card and say i get to pick or else.

LJ said...

Dave Healey and our friend Steve Gashler once engaged in feats of strength to win my phone number. Maybe you could try that.

Koni Frost said...

CUTE balloon pics of your handsome little guy!

I am the BIGGEST lawbreaker. I still have my UT drivers license. I've lived in 3 states since then. ughhhh... that is SO bad!

That's so fun you made a little wager on you driving tests and so funny that you tied. Good luck on the tie-breaker!

Melissa said...

Yes the Utah DMV is super lame- I mean all DMV's are, but Utah's are notoriously lame. I couldn't believe that they have open book- which is probably why there are so many terrible drivers out there- they all cheated. Good luck on deciding who gets to pick- that is so funny that you tied.