Is Being Nice too Hard?

I have been making phone calls today trying to figure out the proper documentation we need to plate/register our vehicles in OH and get our driver's license. They do not make it easy. However, in trying to find all of the information via the web and not being totally satisfied that I was finding all of the information, I thought that I would make a few calls and maybe that would be helpful.

In the state of OH, you first have to transfer the title from your vehicle from your previous state to OH. However, before doing that, you have to possess the title, get an inspection on the vehicle on any vehicle older than a 2005 and get a VIN# verification. The inspection is done in one location. The VIN# verification is done in another location and then taking all of this to the Clerk's office is, yes, you guessed it, in another location. (How fun is this going to be with 2 small children?) Besides the old title, the inspection, and the VIN# verification, you also need to bring your ID and $$. Once the title has been transferred, you then take that documentation to the Deputy Registrar's office - yes - another location to get OH License Plates for your vehicle. That is just to get License Plates.

So, in trying to find out this information, I called the Clerks office twice. Each time I spoke with someone different. However, each time at the end of the conversation, I thanked the women for their time and was about to say good bye when the phone went dead. What happened to your welcome? Or even a Good Bye? I am sure that they get a lot of irritated people frustrated about a system they can do nothing about. Believe me, I know. I used to work at Parking Services in College and I know what it is like to work at a job where just about everyone hates you. However, I was never mean to people. I always presented them with the facts and was always polite and responded to thank yous by saying your welcome - have a nice day.

Hopefully, getting our licenses won't be too terrible. We do have to show proper identification and take a test. Once we have passed the test, we then take the results to the License Bureau - yes, potentially two different locations, however, there is one location where you can do the majority of this stuff - but not the title stuff because their hours only have a short window in which they overlap the others.

So, hopefully, we will be law abiding citizen's by the end of this weekend. And hopefully, our girls will not have to be subjected to us running them around and dealing with lines, frustration and such. Well, at least I have to be abiding before my B-day rolls around.

Just remember, you will always get farther by saying please & Thank you.