{"id":2718,"date":"2010-01-26T22:12:50","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T02:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/?p=2718"},"modified":"2010-01-26T22:12:50","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T02:12:50","slug":"things-i-learned-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2010\/01\/26\/things-i-learned-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Things I Learned Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n    <li>The Watertown (MA) RMV is in the Watertown Mall. If you drove by ten times looking for a sign but didn&#8217;t see one, that&#8217;s because there isn&#8217;t one.<\/li>\n    <li>Tuesday at 1pm is <em>not<\/em> a time when no one is at the RMV.<\/li>\n    <li>If your ticket indicates a 33 minute wait, but you worry that the wait might be shorter and thus don&#8217;t want to walk to the other end of the mall to grab lunch, don&#8217;t worry. Your wait will be considerably more than 33 minutes.<\/li>\n    <li>If you&#8217;re buying a car from a family member, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mass.gov\/rmv\/regs\/reg3.htm\">this page<\/a>. You may be exempt from sales tax. This saved me a tremendous amount of money, but isn&#8217;t mentioned anywhere that you&#8217;ll find on the main RMV page about registering a vehicle. Even after at least two hours of researching what was needed on their site, I didn&#8217;t know until the attendant at the RMV asked me why I hadn&#8217;t filed one.<\/li>\n    <li>The field on your RMV-1 form asking for your vehicle&#8217;s weight should not be filled in. If you were confused because that&#8217;s not mentioned anywhere, don&#8217;t worry: it&#8217;s not mentioned anywhere. The RMV attendant will confirm, in a condescending manner, that you shouldn&#8217;t fill it in.<\/li>\n    <li>When applying for a license, they state that you need &#8220;three forms of ID which include: Proof of date of birth, Proof of signature, and Proof of Massachusetts residency.&#8221; That&#8217;s actually two separate requirements: you need proof of those three things, <em>and<\/em> you need at least three documents. If you have one document proving your date of birth and signature, and one proving your residency, that won&#8217;t cut it, because it&#8217;s only two documents. (You can, however, use the vehicle registration that was <em>just<\/em> issued to you as proof of residency, but you still need two more documents.)<\/li>\n    <li>When you&#8217;re told that she can&#8217;t submit your application until you have all three documents and you say you&#8217;ll come back another day since you don&#8217;t have the required materials, she&#8217;ll still submit your application for a license, leaving you extremely confused about the status of your license.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Watertown (MA) RMV is in the Watertown Mall. If you drove by ten times looking for a sign but didn&#8217;t see one, that&#8217;s because there isn&#8217;t one. Tuesday at 1pm is not a time when no one is at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2010\/01\/26\/things-i-learned-today\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}