Who needs a driver's license anyway?

So I get this letter in the mail from the DMV today. It read, "Our records indicate that your driver's license has expired..."

What??

I didn't believe it, so I opened up my purse, and sure enough, it expired at the end of April. Oops. Of all the times to have to renew...it's so irritating, because I may have to get a new one as soon as we get to Colorado anyway, to get the cars registered. So I'll have this license for maybe a month or so. But I didn't want to risk driving across country with an expired license, so I just bit the bullet and went down to get it renewed.

Luckily for me, it wasn't so expired that I had to take any extra tests or anything. Um, I have had to do that before. When my Oklahoma license expired after we moved to Ohio, I never noticed, and I didn't get any kind of courtesy letter that time. By the time I finally did realize it, the license had been expired for nearly eight months. I had to go in and take both the written and driving tests again. They weren't a big deal, just annoying. The examiner didn't like the way I stopped at stop signs. Whatever.

I haven't really changed the way I drive because of it. But you'd think the whole experience would make me pay more attention to my license. Nope. I forgot again. Fortunately, I was able to go the same day after Nate got home, but the bad news was that the late fee was almost as much as the renewal fee.

I just hope that I can get out getting a new license soon.