I replay interactions like this in my head to help me (not) sleep at night
Wow, a lot of people presenting hard proof that this joke is actually not based on true events. You rarely see this kind of hard hitting citizen journalism no fediverse. Impressive.
The fact that you guys have to go to a physical place for vehicle stuff is kinda amusing to me. Here its been post/online/phone since I was old enough to need a license to buy alcohol. Its not as valuable to lose a provisional license as it is to lose a passport.
And then everybody clapped
For three minutes too.
Ahh yes, common DMV query “Body type?”, right after “engine displacement” and just before the section on aerodynamic coefficients.
Don’t they just ask make and model and year?
This was a totally real interaction. I was there to see it all myself. Some people might not believe because it sounds implausible that by chance someone that was there that day could be on Lemmy reading this exact scenario. Well rare intersections happen all the time in this crazy world we live on. And I can say with confidence I saw it all because I was the camera!
Having just gone through title and registration on a vehicle, they asked for VIN and that was it. They pulled all the info they needed from that.
Make, model, year, and VIN. The VIN can be used to verify the other three were accurate plus some other stuff if needed in the future.
My DMV just asks the VIN of my vehicle and everything else is extracted from that. Because umm yeah of course it is. If you just renew you don’t even do that much, you just say yep I wanna renew these plates and the vehicle is the same.
Its a bit more hassle if you buy a vehicle privately and have to file the paperwork yourself but like… very mildly worse.
My DMV is the same. Unfortunately, I own a used school bus that I converted to a motorhome and registered as such. The VIN lookup always flags it as an actual school bus and that makes for giant pains in the ass. So far I haven’t been able to get an EZ-Pass device for it because they don’t issue them to “commercial vehicles”.
It’s a completely understandable mistake, the DMV lady switched context from person information to vehicle information without letting the customer know.
What the hell question is that anyway? Body type? You mean make, model, year? Sounds made up to me
Coupe. Sedan. Pickup. SUV. Crossover. Tractor trailer. Body type.
Ma’am both the vehicle and I are lemons. Defective and in shape.
Unacceptable
They probably do this intentionally for shits and giggles
As far as I’m aware, they prefer to giggle first and then shit.
No one gets their license and registration at the same time, at least I haven’t, in over 30 years of driving and having owned at least 15 different cars.
The joke needs work; don’t quit your day job.
Yeah, I was just gonna ask… because it sounded weird and I was trying to figure out why they’d need his photo and details about the car at the same time…
They’re handles by physically separate offices here.
Nah bro, you HAVE to go back, especially if they remember you and chuckle because you brightened their day in an otherwise dull job. If they remember you fondly then in the future if you’ve got a difficult but necessary request they’d be much more inclined to pull all the levers their job position allows them to help you out.
Only option is to fake your own death and start a new life in Luxemburg.
But I hate cafes… and what if this also happens in Luxembourg?
Belgium
“Gurl, get over here and listen to this! Pretty boy Matthew here thought we was OK Cupid!”
Hey, I get that your comment is supposed to be a joke, but using that kind of spelling and grammar when the OP really did not signal that was present comes off as a little sus. I understand that lots of people have had experiences at the DMV and that may be true to yours, but I think it’s best to not assume that’s the way people at the DMV speak in a specific location unless given a reason to.
If you’re going to accuse me of racism because of the way certain words are written, can you at least spell suspicous correctly?
It’s not an incorrect spelling, it’s slang https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sus
If you’re going to pull some whataboutism to distract from having been accused of racism, can you at least pick a valid criticism?
I’m poking fun. Their comment is as much a joke as mine, just for different and… sadder reasons.
I’ll leave it at that. Don’t be so quick to go to bat for someone who often gets flagged for moderation here.
Are you speaking from lived experience here? My lived experience would confirm that most DMV staff are quite the sassy bunch.
Now we can theorize on why that may be the case, or we can note that my anecdote plus the other anecdote doesn’t make a statistical trend… but that’s not what this is, you appear to be making just as bold and unfounded of a conjecture as the person you are replying to; as a matter of fact your conjecture actively conflicts with the original post which suggests comedy and sass were at play.
Or wait, are you trying to insinuate that talking like that must put a person in a particular ethnic group and then trying to judge someone for making the perceived implication?
Look, i’m a bit lost, help me out here.
I’m a strong independent Body Type B who don’t need no Body Type A
This reminds me of a time when I went out to eat with my parents when I was a much younger man. The waitress approached us to seat my family and I, she said “Welcome, Smoking or Smoking”.
At the time the diner had a smoking and non smoking section. My parents still laugh hysterically thinking about it.
You should have doubled down and been like, oh no, I knew you were talking about my car, I just didn’t want you to think my car was fat.
