DAY 136

College Boy is turning twenty-one in September. He received a notice in the mail to renew his driver's license. Until you are twenty-one in Michigan you have a vertical license. After that, you get a real adult horizontal license. The notice said that he had to go in person to the Secretary of State to get his new license. I figured it was not going to be easy in these days of Covid-19.

Back in the olden days, you would go to the DMV and wait for hours until your number was called. Then half of the time you would be informed that you did not have all of the correct paperwork to complete the task at hand. You would go back another day to wait some more. Now you have to make an appointment to go in. No one is allowed in the building without one, and you are required to wear a mask. So, you have to go online to their website and make an appointment. Your choices are future or same-day appointments, which can be made 24 hours in advance. It seems to me that they are all future appointments since I don't ever need to make one in the past. Whatever, I got online to sign him up. First I tried a future appointment. The first available was November 4th. Not going to work since he has to do it before his birthday. Next, I tried a same-day appointment but since it was Friday there was nothing available. I went on again yesterday and scheduled one for 4:00 today.

We arrived a little early. There were a couple of people waiting outside the door. College Boy masked up and stood six feet behind the last person and waited. He was inside the building and back out within ten minutes. It was like a DMV miracle happening right before my eyes.

I guess there are some advantages to this virus.