MrGrumpy's wakeup call

This morning MrGrumpy had an appointment with MrDMV to apply for his driving licence.
At 5:45am he tapped the snooze option on the iPod alarm as he was not keeping to his normal schedule this morning. Just gone 6:00am he heard his phone rattling on the desk, it was obviously not just an email alert, it was ringing... he answered the phone... it was MrA asking if he could dial back into a conference call in a few minutes.

MrGrumpy quickly got ready and dialed into the call, he would have joined sooner had he been able to read the conference id and see the keypad on his phone at the same time, but the technology was working against him.

The call had MrA, MrWhiteSox, MrGrumpy, MrHyperTonic and MrVimto on. Thanks to MrVimto the issue was resolved with a simple config change.

MrGrumpy arrived at MrDMV in good time, this time there was plenty of parking, so he was hopeful that he would be able make some progress this time. There was already a queue, as MrGrumpy had made an appointment he was able to join the short queue.
It was not a long wait inside, he paid his $31, completed his eye-test, got his photo taken, now the written test...

The test is 36 multiple choice questions, these had to be answered with less than 6 errors. He had not really studied, he did have a quick go on a free iPad app, so he started the test... there were a few questions he was not sure on. He returned to the desk where they checked his answers, 4 wrong on the first 18, and 3 wrong on the second side... So close, 7 wrong, only allowed 6.
They allow 3 attempts to pass the test. So try #2, he got another sheet, this time he felt a little more confident.

Back at the desk, they checked the first side, 5 wrong..., second side, 2 wrong... MrGrumpy was now starting to worry, he did not want to have to start the whole process of applying for a licence again.
Try #3, he took a little longer on each question, carefully reading before choosing his answer.


He returned to the desk with his final attempt, how many would it be?
First side, 2 wrong (a better start), second side, only 1 wrong...
MrGrumpy was very relieved, he had passed!

He still has the actual driving test to do, he has tried logging on to MrDMV's website to arrange one, but it does not recognise his details.

MrGrumpy and MrWhiteSox went on to visit a customer before MrWhiteSox headed off for his flight.
He arrived back at the cube farm just after lunch, he then realised he had missed "Donut Thursday", what a disaster.

This was turning into a busy day, by 3:30pm he had only been in the office for about 30mins, not had breakfast and missed lunch, but he had passed part of his driving test.

Having failed to arrange the actual test online, MrGrumpy later rang the telephone number supplied on MrDMV's web site. This is an automated call that accepts voice commands, quite good but was unable to understand MrGrumpy's date of birth, he resorted to using the keypad for this. The call went on and he selected his local MrDMV, just to be told there was a system error and then abruptly cut off... you can imaging how much MrGrumpy enjoyed that.

MrGrumpy continued to work until it was time for food (while it is still served), after he had eaten, it was time to head home via MrBevMo to buy some more beer (and a bottle of CokeZero).

For MrGrumpy it is time to relax with tonights beer.