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Source: Standard-Examiner, Ogden, UtahAug.迷你倉出租 11--Looking for some real fun? Go get your driver's license renewed.For those of you fortunate enough to have your license to drive expire in the foreseeable future, I have one teensy bit of advice to make the entire renewal process a whole lot less painful:Emigrate.To Canada. Or Australia. Or any number of other English-speaking countries where they've never even heard of the Utah Department of Public Safety's Driver License Division.Trust me, emigrating will just be easier. And it will certainly require far fewer forms of identification to prove you're you.Either that, or simply stop driving altogether. Because seriously? It hardly seems worth it.Last Friday, realizing I had a birthday coming up and that my driver's license was about to expire, I attempted to renew it. Speaking of expiring ...Let me begin by saying that the folks at the Driver License Division have made great strides in the field of wait sciences. They truly have streamlined the process from the olden days, when you'd spend an hour or more standing between two ropes in a long, snaking line of people coughing and sniffling, hoping for the chance to talk to a state worker with attitude to spare.Now? It's a completely different experience. You only have to stand in line for, like, five or 10 minutes. And THEN you spend the rest of the hour or more sitting in a waiting room with a bunch of people coughing and sniffling, hoping for the chance to talk to a state worker with ... well, you get the idea.I will say this: Every person I encountered at the Driver License Division in Farmington was friendly, courteous and helpful. Well, at least the folks who worked there, anyway. Frankly, my fellow waitees were just as dour and downright 儲存倉rumpy as I remember them from past renewals.But the current division employees? To a man or woman, they were cheerful, caring professionals who actually made the renewal experience somewhat palatable. It makes you wonder what they did with all the crabby, condescending people who used to work there. Sell them to France?In the waiting room, I happened to be seated next to an elderly gentleman who was there to renew his license. This man had to have been in his mid- to late-80s, easy.Thirty minutes into our wait, the two of us began commiserating. He told me that, despite the long wait, he was taking great comfort in the fact that the odds were good he wouldn't be around to have to renew his license the next time it expired."Next time?" I asked. "Listen, I hate to be the one to break the bad news, but at the rate they're calling us up to the counter, you might not even be around this time."Start to finish, the entire ordeal took a little more than an hour -- and that was with a waiting room that was only half full when I arrived. By the time I left, it was standing-room-only, and there were vehicles lined up outside the building, waiting for a chance at a parking space. I don't know. Some of those people may still be waiting.Yes, yes. I realize that there's an easier way to do all this. Sure, the state of Utah now allows you to go online and set up an appointment for your driver's license renewal, and it will cut out of the equation much of the wait time.But where's the fun in that?Contact Mark Saal at 801-625-4272 or msaal@standard.net, or follow him on Twitter at @Saalman.Copyright: ___ (c)2013 the Standard-Examiner (Ogden, Utah) Visit the Standard-Examiner (Ogden, Utah) at .standard.net Distributed by MCT Information Services迷你倉沙田