So, I am officially legal! After a long, horrible, and emotionally draining experience, I am finally able to say… I am 100% legal again.
This whole experience started when my boss informed us we need to get our documents updated before the human resources, HR Officers, make their appearance at our office. I, being the lazy and irresponsible person that I am, have been driving for three years without a license.
Well in order for me to get a license I had to have my social security card…guess what I didn’t have! Yup you guessed it… my social security card was nowhere to be found! It was in my stinking wallet when it was stolen; this put me in a little bit of a pickle, leading me to ignore the problem of not having a license. Time passed… drivers license expired, and before I knew it, two years had passed! This is why I had to take the stinking drivers test all over again! Now that we are up to speed… let me share my experience.
Friday I took along lunch and went to get my social security card! In order to prove who I was I had to find my birth certificate (this was a task… who would have thought it would be in my filing cabinet!), gather my school ID and any document showing my social security number. I trucked my little happy ass to the SS office and settled in for what would be the most interesting experience I could have in a government office.
I arrived at the office at 10:30 am. After signing in and collecting my number I leaned up against the wall for what I figured would be a long wait… it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be as far as waiting! I,being ever so chatt, got chummy with the security guard… this made for an interest time! While leaning up against the wall, let me just tell you… this usually starts by me saying “there I was, minding my own business”, and this woman flys around the corner at 90 mph, maybe a little exaggerated, and runs right over my foot. This woman then proceeds to yell at me to get out of her way; problem was, I couldn’t move… she was still on my foot. Well, “my new friend” the security guard got onto her about not paying attention and saved me from the attack.
After about an hour of waiting they finally called all people looking for replacement cards to get into one line. At this point I am fairly certain it will be over fairly quickly. I was wrong… behind me in line was this very nice lady and her two devil children. At one point they had gotten ahold of their mothers star shaped (rather large star shaped) earrings and stabbed me in the back of the leg with one. After the brutal assualt on the back of my thigh, they were banned to the back corner with a person I assume they knew. So I wait, and wait, and wait some more and finally the number before mine gets called… I then got a phone call from work. Sometime during the phone call my number gets called and a nice little 80 year old woman decides she is going to steal my “number identity”! After about 30 more minutes I click to being skipped! Once the “cute little ole lady” moves from the window.. I approached. At this point I am told that she stole my spot. Guess she was missing her midday soaps or something.
Anyhow, this was my social security experiece; in total I was there about 2 1/2 hours; which, I believe is good time for a government office. I will explain the experience at the drivers license office on a later date.
