Do I want to drive THAT badly?

Heck, the roomie just wanted to renew her ID and it took HOURS, a new birth certificate and all kinds of hoops jumped thru - what a lot of MORONS!

To renew here we takean eye test and thats it. I will have to do it in 2012

I've never had that hassle before. 21.50 Is cheap for renewing a license. Here you have to pay 60 dollars to renew the license. Your lucky!

Well I recently got my permit, and it didn't take too much hassle. My husband renewed his license. I should have gotten my permit years ago, but was too lazy to fill out all the forms so that the DMV in my state knows that I'm alright to drive... lol. I got it all straightened out after realizing I wasn't doing much for myself but making myself depressed... so after all that process I just went in, gave them my i.d. card, the money, and took the vision and written test... Of course it cost me $15.00 to do that, my husband it cost $35.00 to renew his license, price skyrocketed on the renewal!

That's just what you needed today, being so cold. Running around the city for a few hours. Did you get a chance to inspect all of the construction sites too? My son 25, who moved down earlier this year is going through a hassle. He's from Maryland and lost his drivers license from there. The only way he can get a replacement is to go to Maryland...like he's going to do that. So, even though he's been driving for years, he has to take the written and driving tests. Only problem there is that he doesn't get time off until January, and the testing and licensing sites aren't opened on weekends. You'd think that some of the locations would be open on Saturday, wouldn't you?

Well I personally haven't had to happen to me. My sons ex had went without her license for a few months. Here in KY if you go past six months then you have to do the written test all over to get the license back. It took her two trys to past the written..LOL Glad to know that you got yours the first time around. Have a good evening and keep smiling.

I know how you feel. It is so bad here in California. I love driving, but it is expensive to have and keep a car.

Wow Ambie that is a pain in the Butt having to have your License renewed every 3 Years Here in the UK the only time you have to reapply for it again if it was removed by the Law I don't think that is right that you have to go through that Hassle every 3 years

I am 54 years old and I have never driven in my life, I just do not have the need to to drive. I would actually be too nervous behind the wheel anyhow.

Yes. I have been through all kinds of things at the license branch. I call them ahead of time and ask them what they will need and what will be expected of me. They tell me and then when I get there, I do not have everything because they failed to tell me this or that. so I have to leave and then go back again. Grrrr.

I hate when that happens.....you also have to retest here if you don't renew! I have found that if I go to the license center about 12:30 p.m. it's the best time.....no lines.....no hassles...in and out in a hurry....so it's been good here so far.....but I will never say never! LOL

ambiepam hi I don't drive but my best friend Nelda does and she had the devil of a time, she had to wait til almost noon,she aced the written test but of all things she failed the eyesight test as she had just had laser surgery done on one eye for rentinopathy from diabetes and the eye was still irritated so they had to send her to her opthamologist and he made her new glasses so now she had to come back and take the eye exam over and she passed and now she said hurrah I don't have to do this again for several years. but she said she was exhausted by the time she go through and hungry, we are both diabetics. Its hard to go for long periods of time without eating when you have diabetes.

Here we don’t need to take any tests again unless we let the licence expire, and then things can get complicated! I’ve had my drivers licence for over thirty years and in that time I have never let it expire thank goodness. It is so aggravating when you find yourself running around because of red tape; at least you got it sorted in the end! The last time I got ‘the run around’ was when I went to my welfare office and attempted to update my child’s endowment payment…Never again…I don’t bother now and let them pay me what they owe at tax time!

heck, try moving to another state...that was fun!! couldn't get a va id without a virginia address... couldn't rent a place without money couldn't cash checks without va bank account couldn't get bank account without id..... or the loop was something like that... it took us about four trips to the motor vehicles to get just one of our son's a driver's permit...and everytime, they wanted different documentation for it. I had to have my son go apply where I work just so I could arrange with my boss to send him a letter thanking him for applying but sorry no job at this time.... the whole thing was made a mess after 9/11... protect the homeland by annoying american citizens, but well, na...don't tighten the border, we need the cheap labor... heck at one point we were entertaining the idea of just going and finding us a mexican and get our id's that way...they don't seem to have any problems renting their homes, getting a license, ect.

good grief, WHY the hassle?? i have never had any hassle at all. I usually just send mine through the mail.