Driving, etc.

I was going to get a driver's license in Virginia this weekend, so I drove to NOVA yesterday. I got up nice and early this morning to go get in line at the DMV only to discover that I'd left my driver's license in my purse, which was back at my apartment. So, I grumbled a bit and drove back to the apartment. I grabbed the driver's license, put it back in my wallet where it belongs, used the bathroom, and headed out to the DMV (one slightly closer than the one near the parentals.)

I got there, pulled out my wallet, and ... my license wasn't there. I looked all over my car, went through my purse, took every last item out of my wallet, and no luck.

So, I drove back to my apartment yet again, and tore the whole place apart looking for it.

No luck.

I started really worrying about what I was going to do - it wasn't as though I could just replace it from out of state, and how was I going to get a new one if I didn't have an old one to turn in?

I went to use the bathroom again, and there it was, on the floor. It had fallen out of my wallet earlier.

Sigh.

By then it was way too late to go back out to the DMV (it closes at 12 on Saturdays), so I just resigned myself to going next week or the week after.

The irony here is that I actually would have been fine without having an old one to turn in. I finally looked at the FORM for getting a new VA license (not just a replacement), and there's a place to just say that the old (possibly out of state) one got lost.

...Yeah....

Anyway, it's been a long day. Tomorrow should be better, though. I actually did enjoy all the driving today; I got to go through DC and got to know the area around my apartment a bit more. I'm just continually amazed at my ability to be so absentminded about some things...meh. I guess we all do that every now and then, right?