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It's the quickest way to find out what's trending today. Women's history and the DMV. Let's get started. All right, here we go.
First question, are you up on your Department of Motor Vehicles Women's History? Think about it, are you? Well, I'm going to answer that one for you. You're probably not.
And the reason I'm saying that is I haven't been able to find any history linking women and the Department of Motor Vehicles together. Nothing amazing that a woman did in regards to the Department of Motor Vehicles. Now, one thing I will say, though, and I want you to verify this for me, the majority of DMVs that I've ever been in have been predominantly women. The majority of the people working in there are women.
You might have one or two men in there, but they're a security. You might have one or two guys behind the desk. But it's mainly women. And I'm saying this as having lived in South Carolina, North Carolina, Florida, Virginia, and Japan.
Now, in Japan, I didn't get to check it out there to see what that looked like. We got special, I guess, privileges on base to take our driving test and everything. But outside of that, women. So I know you're probably saying, though, well, if there's no history about women and the DMV, why do you want to talk about that?
Well, I'll get to that. Give me a second. OK, so here we go. I basically just needed to vent today.
And because there were so many women working in the DMV, I figured I'm going to tie this into Women's History Month. But got my daughter on the bus at 7 o'clock this morning. By 7.15, I was leaving my house heading to the DMV. By 7.40, I was at the DMV.
And there was already about 35.40 people standing in line, waiting for the DMV to open at 8 a.m. That was the start of my day. And stood out there, and it's always fun to people watch, right? It's even better when you have chatty people in the line by you.
There was a gentleman behind me that told me a story about him having nine cars. And he got pulled over yesterday. And the cop took his license and made him park his car. And he had to find a way home.
And oh my gosh, you went through a lot, huh? On top of that, he spent four hours in the DMV the previous day, only to come back today and be upset because he's in a long line. Well, boo. If you don't have an appointment, that's the only way you're jumping this line.
So cool your heels and enjoy your time like the rest of us. So that was the first time. I get in, I get to the little check-in desk. And the girl is asking for me for my information.
And she asked for my passport. Well, I didn't bring my passport. I had every other piece of information you can possibly think of. I had my birth certificate.
I had my social security card. I had my marriage license. I had multiple pieces of mail. I had all of the cards and whatnot in my purse, along with the military ID.
My current driver's license, all of this stuff. And it was like, OK, I need your passport. OK, got it. So I left.
I went all the way back home, got my passport, grabbed a granola bar because I did not eat breakfast. That wasn't anywhere in the storage toolbar. I did not eat breakfast. Got back in the car, went back to the DMV.
Get in line. This time there's maybe 15, 20 people ahead of me in line. I sit there and I wait. I get inside, back to the check-in desk.
I get the other lady. And she tells me, oh, I'm sorry. Your major piece of mail to verify your address is too old. This is four months old.
And it can only be two months old. And I'm thinking to myself, well, it would have been nice if the other young lady would have gone through all this stuff to see, did I have everything? Just I just didn't have the password. Well, no.
That's not how that went. However, this lady did. She was like, well, hold on. Let's make sure you have everything else.
So when you leave here, you can get everything that you need and be ready to do business when you come back. I said, you know what, ma'am? Thank you, because this is my second time here. All right, so I get back to the DMV.
I've got all my stuff. I'm go. I get the green line. I get to go sit and wait.
And I wait. And I wait. And I wait. Now, one of the conversations I had outside with one of the people standing in line with me was simply the fact that they were saying that you would think they would change the system, that they would figure out where the Kingston system were, and they would fix that, because there's no reason all of us need to be standing out here.
However, I do realize that the reason why they only let a certain number of people in the building is because of COVID. However, it seemed that the longer the day went on, the more they didn't care about that, because first we had seats that were separated and there were spaces in between people. And then by the time I was leaving, everybody was sitting side by side. I'm like, ooh, I'm glad I'm not sitting down over there, because I'd have to go stand up.
Even though the security guy was making everybody go sit down. So you couldn't even distance yourself, because they're like, no, you're making me nervous. Go sit down somewhere. Anyway, while I was waiting, I observed the ladies working.
And some people looked pleasant. Others looked like they were just going through the motions. I don't know what they went through earlier, but they probably should have taken the day off. This one lady though, she caught my eye.
She was bubbly. She was dancing to the Michael Jackson mix that they had going on there. She was cheering with the people that were taking the test and passing. She was even telling people to fix their hair.
If it was looking like it was sticking up before she took their picture. Where do they do that? Please tell me, because I'm at the point now where I'm like, if I ever have to do anything else at the DMV, I want to know that Miss Davis is working. Because if she's working, my other request is, I want to go to her.
I don't want to deal with anybody else in here. Because this woman here is enjoying what she does. She is doing everything that she can to make the people's experience there at the DMV a pleasant one. Because I'm telling you, this was my third time at the DMV.
I had first got there 7.40 in the morning. It's already 220 at this point. When I get called up, luckily, to Miss Davis's window. And I had to ask her, I said, ma'am, does the DMV do any type of kudos for people who do a great job?
Like, is there any way I can leave a note? And she was like, oh, gosh, you're not going to think bad about me, are you? Well, that kind of caught me off guard, because I didn't expect that. I'm like, no, ma'am.
I watched you when the ladies that didn't speak English were here. And you had to wait for their interpreter. You were very patient. And you were pleasant.
And I appreciated that. I've been watching you the entire time I've been in here. Because watching everybody else made me feel depressed. But watching you, you gave me life.
So thank you. I appreciate everything that you've done. The smiles, the jokes, and laughs with everybody else. It wasn't even with me.
And I was pleased. So let me hats off to you, ma'am. Because I don't know what kind of people you all run into and what you all have to deal with. Whenever you have to deal with people, there's always room for shenanigans, simple and plain.
Shenanigans are on the menu and always served when you have to deal with people. Because some people just don't know how to act and how to talk. So let's tie all this back into women's history. Women can do amazing things.
This woman in particular, she didn't even realize the effect she was having on me. And I can only imagine that the other people, the people that passed their tests, that excitement and energy that they got from her, they carried that with them outside of the building. And when I think about it, it's like, you know what? I wonder how much input do these ladies have into the system that they work in or do they just work in the system?
Because if they're just working the system, then I understand why some of them are looking the way that they do, beat down and whatnot. But if they're given an opportunity to make their own situation better, I would bet you any money that the DMV would be one of the best places to go. People would be wanting to go there just to go there. But that's not the case right now.
So what I propose is that women take over the DMV. Don't just take it over by working there. Take it over all that thing and turn it into something that works for everybody. All right.
Well, that was today's episode of Tweech Trends. Thank you for listening. And I know today's episode had nothing to do with history and everything to do about the DMV and the women that work there. But what I am trying to say, the bottom line, the moral to the story here is that if the women at the DMV pull their experience and their knowledge together, write down all the processes that happened there.
And I bet they could take that information and turn it into a well-oiled machine. And people wouldn't dread to go there anymore. And then they wouldn't have the bad feelings or whatever they have when people come there simply because it would be awesome. It'd be an amazing experience.
Take the questions that the ladies at the check-in desk ask and put that on a website. You answer the questions, you get to the forums and information. You bring that stuff with you. And bam, there you have it.
That well-oiled machine that everybody wants. But nobody can get as long as just random people are running the DMV. So anyway, that was my semi-rant, semi-solute to women. And nothing to do with history at this point.
I'm projecting though that in the future, there's going to be some DMV history dealing with women where they did that. And I'm ready for it. All right, well, have a great day. So you guys back here on Thursday.
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