Hold The Seventy-Two Virgins ... And The Hyperlinks

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Exactly one week from today,

I will be seventy-two years-old

The first acknowledgement

of that birthday

was a document from

DMV

My driver's license

needed to be renewed

but I was given the option

to do so entirely on-line

Five attempts to do so yesterday

proved frustrating

to the fifth degree

 

The alternative,

physically appearing

at a DMV office

with written test

and driver's test,

was as welcome

as bunions 

and burnt toast

 

But sixth time is a charm

and after an early morning

phone call,

the deal is done

thanks to a woman

named Dawn

who had more patience

in her fingernail

than I've had

in my entire life

 

Despite fifteen minutes

of wait-time

on the phone,

7.2 stupid qustions.

 720 keystrokes

and a nominal payment,

my driver's license

has been renewed

and 

I am a very 

hap-pre birthday boy

 

Who

would like to give

a bouquet of gratitude

to a DMV employee

named Dawn  

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