The day has finally come.
Where do I begin?
My license expired on December 31, 2019.
As I have now lived in NYC for 10 years, I rarely need to drive.
Should I have switched over to a New York license before it expired?
Again, not high on my list of priorities.
NOT FOR ME THOUGH!
If your license expired BEFORE these new COVID rules, you still had to come in.
So here I am, waiting for the DMVs to open back up.
NJ made it as difficult as possible for anyone to drive a car.
Here’s where I started to get lazy.
Most locations were only allowing renewals online…but, again, not for me.
No rental cars for me.
Otherwise, it wasn’t a big issue.
I started carrying my passport around, and that was that.
Oh, I also lost my license in January of 2020 at a bar in Brooklyn.
The website is total shit, and kept sending me in circles, so I kept giving up.
My new plan was just to show up and make them help me.
give it another spin to make an appointment."
So, I tried.
I was met with a new issue:
Shit.
Could they suspend a license because it had been expired too long?
Something I hadn’t considered.
Okay, whatever, I’ll just pay the fee to have it reinstated.
Okay….so I don’t exist?
I haven’t been driving for 16 years?
That I got enough speeding tickets in my early 20s to rack up around 5 points on my license?
That I drove two Mustangs in a row?
Now it was time to get desperate with phone calls.
Somehow, my dad was able to find a number online that someone actually answered.
All of my mail goes here!
I will break out every tear.
I will scream about the injustice of COVID.
I will say “I barely ever have to drive anyway!'
I’ll do it all.
Another question I asked myself - why bother?
I still never need to drive.
However it does suck to be the useless one in an emergency situation.
(I would still drive them.
The main issue here - I can’t rent a car.
This may be equally as important to me as being the savior bringing someone to the hospital.
It’s decided - I do in fact, need to drive.
So, that’s that.
I’m 16 years old again and i’m not allowed to take the car out by myself.
Is it all my fault?
I couldn’t anticipate COVID.
Should I have made it a higher priority?
Still - if your license is expired, figure it out quickly.
Whether you drive on a regular basis or not.
Apparently, your license to drive is not “forever.”
