Month: July 2019

Four months before my birthday, I got my notice in the mail that my driver’s license will be expiring on my birthday. This blog post is a brief escape from the maddening world of personal finance and my quarterly portfolio reports. This is one of the necessary activities that all of us will have to undertake sometimes in our lives. However, I don’t remember the last time I took the written test to earn my driver’s license. Thus, I had to study.
No doubt the Department of Motor Vehicles and the Veterans Administration are two huge bureaucracies but, in my opinion, they receive over the top criticism. They are both underfunded, understaffed and unappreciated through no fault of their own, so what else is new. It is certainly not the fault of the people who looked at my documents, administered the test or provided me with Veteran Status Verification Form. On top of all the talk about inefficiencies, long lines and funding troubles that our governmental institutions are in these days, I experienced helpful V.A. volunteers and DMV’s good employees.