My birthday is coming up in two weeks and I'm gonna get my driver's license back. I've been without it for seven years. It started out that I didn't pay my insurance and I started getting tickets for no insurance. Then I started getting extra fines for not paying my 'no insurance' tickets. Then I got my license suspended. Then when I got pulled over I started getting tickets for no insurance and driving on a suspended license. Then I got extra fines for not paying those fines. Then it became that each time I 'd get pulled over I would get a ticket for no insurance, driving on a revoked license and I'd get one extra year each time tacked onto the revoked license. All in and all the fines added up to something in the area of $5000. Those ended up getting paid off but the license was still revoked for several years.
So this Birthday is gonna be very exciting. It's been a lot of hassle and opportunities that I wasn't able to take advantage of. When I was in Portland, for example, looking for work most of the jobs required a driver's license. When I told the company that finally hired me, that I didn't have a license, they were convinced that it was obviously because I had gotten a DUI. When I said that it was not a DUI, but because of lack of insurance, they just patronizingly said "Uh, huh, su-u-re." and refused to believe otherwise. Even right now at the end of this ordeal, I'm involved in a metal project but I'm not able to go to the junkyard to buy the materials I need, to do the job, to make the money that I'm gonna end up paying to reinstate my license. It will work out but it sure has been a long hassle.
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