As you may or may not recall, getting my SSN was a pain in the behind. Well, so was getting my driver’s license.

The PennDOT site is confusing as hell, so as far as my husband and I could tell it told us I could switch my license over and he could change the address on his license (he still had his old Philly address on there) at the AAA in Shadyside. Alright, cool. So off we went to the AAA.

After a long, long trip on a cold, cold day we finally arrived and waited in a much longer line than I would have expected on a Saturday morning. When we got to the desk, the woman informed us that we actually CAN’T do those things there. Uh… wha? The website listed those services as being available at this location, and we told her as much. Of course, the website was wrong and no one had ever bothered to fix it, so she explained that we needed to go downtown on a weekday.

This probably shouldn’t have frustrated me, but it really did. A lot. I felt like I had missing work waaaay too much, and having to miss yet another day to get my license made a lil’ bit of rage build up inside. Of course, there was nothing else we could do, so we went home to wait for Tuesday (Monday was a holiday).

I got there early on Tuesday morning (my husband decided to forego his for a while longer), and it was a good thing I did. Already three people were in front of me. There were tons more behind me by the time the doors opened, and I was appalled that many kept trying to bump ahead. Unfortunately for them, I was still in rage mode – there was absolutely there was no way there getting in front of me unless they wanted a serious ass-kicking. I figured, hey – my purse is heavy, my boots are big… I’ll take anyone on!

Luckily, I managed to make it inside without having to throw any punches and was pleasantly surprised at how quickly it went. Showed them my docs, took a pic, handed over my NB license and BAM! – I had a shiny new PA license (temporary, of course – permanent one came in the mail a few days later). Not sure if it was worth missing half a day of work and all the money that goes with it, but it was finally done and I was one step further to being settled here in Pittsburgh!