untitled, as of yet

I struggled with the title of this post... How much is too much? Here's how it went:

calgon, blow my fucking head off

That's a bit strong, don't you think? Take it down a notch.

calgon, blow my effing head off

That's still a bit much. It's alright, but...

calgon, take me away from this hell

Sticks with the original quote's basics, but it's not really hell, and that sounds like I'm talking about work, when I'm not.

calgon, blow me away

Clever, close to the original quote, but with a twist. Still with the guns and the death though... But it's a contender.

calgon, put me out of my misery

Blah. Nowhere near the original quote, and just watered down sentiment.

Originally, I settled with the last one, kowtowing to public decency and familial reactions. But then, I really like the contender and I'm partial to the original.

Then again, I always say, "Fuck public decency."


Anyway, I spent 3+ hours dealing with a vehicle registration/insurance snafu that resulted in my registration being suspended. Since mid-November. Surprise!

I had to talk to the DMV 3 different times, and got 3 different answers. 4, if you count the manager I spoke with. The first person I talked to apparently didn't even open up my account; he just told me it was all OK, nothing to worry about. Wrong. WRONG. (Kelly - you're on my list, man.) Luckily I called back. Twice. (With this kind of customer service, why am I still surprised that they provide neither last names nor direct extensions?)

I had to talk to my insurance company (yes, that company) twice to find out why the hell they didn't send the electronic proof of my car being insured for California like they should have when I registered my car and again when I spoke with them in November and they told me they already had.

At the end of it all, the DMV was faxed proof of my continuous coverage in Cali from 7/2006 through the present day on MONDAY, and it takes them 3 days to process those. THREE DAYS to walk over to a machine, grab a slip of paper, and check off some box in my file on the system.

This is why robots will replace the DMV. And that should be our first priority; not space travel, not building cars, not vacuuming floors; our first robot priority should be to replace the DMV. As JR said when told there was nothing this representative could do, it was "the system", he said, "Can I talk to the system then?" Amen, brother! As my favorite Futurama episode (Hell Is Other Robots) states, "THAT = TRUE".