911:: Re: Those jokers at the DMV - addendum

[Guest guest]

DMV registration renewal by mail has created an interesting phenomena:

illegible information. Hard to complete the fields in those cases, obviously.

One night - recently, as a matter of fact - I advised an officer that the

city of registration was " NOT LEGIBLE. " I mean, I said it in a fairly

easy-going, comfortable manner. " And, unfortunately, the city of

registration is not legible. "

The officer replied, " Spell it phonetically and I'll see if I can sound it

out. " (Helpful kind of officer, wasn't he?)

So, carefully and distinctly, I enunciated, " 10-4. The city of

registration is, phonetically, Nora Ocean Tom, next word Lincoln

Ida Boy Lincoln . NOT LEGIBLE. "

His reply: " Oh. Uh...... gotcha. Thanks, Monterey. "

I couldn't resist adding, " Well, it's probably hard to type a scribble in a

computer. Want the zip code? It's not local.... "

Too bad there wasn't an R/O present to help that poor officer with his

vehicle storage paperwork, huh?

Happy to be here, proud to serve.

Olmstead

Communications Supervisor

~on the Central California coastline~

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