IDoNotGetIt

I’m so excited.  I finally got my “In Reason We Trust” vehicle tag yesterday.  I’ve been wanting one for the longest time.  There are so many people with the “In God We Trust” tags that I was beginning to feel ashamed every time I saw one.

The experience of getting it was interesting though.  The DMV has a stereotype that everyone likes to believe.  I usually don’t have a problem when I need to go there but the lady that was helping me yesterday was really trying my patience.  She was a perfect representation of the stereotype.

I walked up to the counter and gave her my paperwork and said “I’m swapping out my license plate for this special interest tag.  I had already filled out the application for the special tag and it had a place to write in the name of the tag that you want to get.  For this tag, I had written “Secular Humanists of the Lowcountry.”  To start with the idiot woman couldn’t read it so I assumed that it was my handwriting and turned the page over to show her where it was printed and circled.  She still couldn’t pronounce the word Secular.  She kept looking at me over the top of her glasses and saying “you want this plate?”  She repeated this at least two more times over the course of this visit.  So after several minutes of computer searching (I still suspect she was searching the web to find out what secular means), and several trips to the back room to talk to her supervisor, she finally came out said “I need to see your membership card”.  Now I had already researched this on the Internet and they have a printable version of the membership card on the lowcountryhumanists.org web site.  So I pulled it out and gave it to her.  “This is your card?” she said.  “Yea ma’am” I replied.  After a few more “over the eyeglass looks”, she went over to search the wall of cubbies where the license tags are stored.  I watched her look over the wall and I saw the tag, it is actually pretty recognizable due to the large U.S. Flag on the left side and I was pretty sure I saw it but she didn’t get it.  Instead, she walked back to the back room and came back out a few minutes later saying that they didn’t have it in stock and I would have to mail in my application.  I was second guessing my self about whether or not the one I saw was the one I wanted so I ask her for specifics about the mail in process but then I took one last look and noticed the sticker above the cubby.  It was too far for me to read but it was long and certainly looked like it could say Secular Humanists of the Lowcountry, so I pointed it out to her and said I think that is it.  She looked annoyed and slowly walked over to get a better look.  “That’s not it, it says ‘In Reason We Trust’”, she hollered.  I replied, “Yeah, that’s it.”  So several minutes later, I finally had my new tag.  Now I can feel pride rather than shame every time I see one of those idiotic In God We Trust tags.