Have driven today a bit. For the first time ever.
I mean alone, with no instructor or dual controls.
As a learner, of course I can’t drive like sole alone, but without dual controls I consider it alone.
Luckily with no damage to anybody or anything.
Never before exceeded 30mph, today hit 50.
Mixed feelings. First time behind the wheel of a new car and first time such a speed.
But I managed it and I liked it.
Will keep on rolling
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Well, as someone who issues driver licenses, I can’t give out any inside info, but if you should have any general questions, I’m at your disposal.
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That’s insane! Can’t they just give you broad spectrum antibiotics on the 2nd visit !?!
Anyway glad you’re on the mend.
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The first time I went driving it was with my dad, he freaked me out doing a turn in an intersection and wound up mangling a Kingswood and a pile of bricks. I didn’t get my license until four years after that.
This makes a lot of sense.
I used to tell people secret tips and tricks to get passports easier all the time when I worked for them. I would always complain about my customers with my parents.
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How so?
Because you are a very officious person with very exacting criteria for things while also occasionally being perhaps the slightest smidge stultifying at times. Typically things you associate with your DMVs.
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Dusted one of my bookcases and made enough room for that mega box of Scott Pilgrim figures lined them up in a fun way I think.
Feat. Toddler Me in the background 
Real 9/10 collection tho lol. I get 3 Ramonas and not a single Young Neil 
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Well, hey, if it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing right.
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I had a similar motto “If its worth doing it right it is worth doing right away. That way you don’t waste my time calling me thinking I can magic a passport before your shockingly ill-planned trip to Bali.”
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That kind of thing sounds familiar.
Oh, so you need to renew your license in order to be able to get on a plane to go on vacation in four days, do you? And you don’t have your birth certificate with you, which you need to renew your license in accordance with the Real ID Act, and you were born in another state, so you’ll need to order a certified copy to be sent to you and that can take a month, so that’s not an option for you, hmm? Let me ask you: considering the fact that you can renew your license up to two years ahead of its expiration date, which has been the case since 2017, and prior to that you could renew up to one year ahead of time since 2005, why are you coming in now, with four fucking days left, and giving me attitude over your fuck-up?!
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Next weekend me and my girlfriend move into a new apartment, I’m very excited for that. My pc has finally been fixed, so next week i can play my beloved Codename 47 again, my pc was broken for about a year 
In December I’ve started a new job too, in a big hardware store it’s fun and i like it a lot.
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Maybe in Backwards-Land, sure! 
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A year without Codename 47? Are you alright?
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Hah! In my country birth certificates are valid across all states so long as you can show us the original copy, we don’t take certified copies.
My god the amount of people who never checked the validity of their passports before even thinking about making holiday plans was endless. You had this huge backlog of idiots who need their passports printed ASAP, then you had to take time to put them on the expediency list. Heaven forbid they were already on it, calling up for the fifth time this week.
The worst thing was the post office calls, you have to play detective finding out where a passport is, if we still had it, if the post office has it, when it might arrive, would it even arrive at all, where did it go too and so on. The worst one was a family in Perth who, since they had one little change of letter in their street name had their passports sent to somewhere in Sydney.
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They’re valid across all states here, too, you just have to actually have it. If not, only the state you were born in can generate a new one, but obviously they don’t generate original, they generate certified copies of the original, which is why we accept them; they’re certified by the state in question to be a copy of the original by the agency that created it. We don’t accept photocopies or scans of originals or certified copies.
The rest of what you describe sounds all too familiar.
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Just got a pop - this trailer in netflix -
Hitman with a space in between 
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That was certainly not worth finding out with which IP I can see this trailer.
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After years I installed a dating app on sunday and uninstalled it again today Firstly because I was reminded again that online dating just isn’t for me and secondly because I realised that my standards are now just so high that I’ll probably never find someone either way 
But that’s okay, I felt so uncomfortable trying that maybe that’s a sign to better leave it at that 
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