Cee’s Black & White Challenge: Candid Photography
A long afternoon at the Registry of Motor Vehicles in Worcester, Massachusetts. No one wants to be there. And there is nothing you can do to hurry the process … nor anywhere else you can go to get your business done, now that they have closed many of the smaller RMV offices including all the express offices in the local malls.
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GOOD OLD DAYS 
ON A DARK AND CLOUDY DAY 
TALKING ABOUT OUR BLOGS IS ANOTHER WAY TO TALK ABOUT OURSELVES 
CRITTERS 
SERENDIPITY - SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 
the waiting is bad enough …
but you often don’t know what kind of service you’re going to get either.
then there’s “Oh you’re at the wrong place Sir.”
or “Did you bring your ______ certificate?”
grrrrrrr rrr.r .r.r…
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And they don’t mark the lines, so if you were directed incorrectly, you have to do it all over again. And then there’s that piece of paper you need, but don’t have.
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Sitting and waiting there would have been a good fit for the “Endurance” photo challenge as well, I think 🙂
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And I think if I hadn’t just used them, I might well have included them 🙂 I have to go into brain-death mode to survive an afternoon at the DMV.
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I guess I’m lucky that our version of the DMV is all online (or you can go to a post office).
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You can do most things on line here, too … except if you need an eye test (or some other test) or your picture is outdated … or you forgot to renew your license or registration because they didn’t bother to notify you it was due (and it only comes up every 5 years). Then (OY) you have to go to The House of Pain.
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These photos could easily be taken at any DMV location in Kansas, except the chairs are emptier. This series has me dreading long waits, right about now.
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I’ve lived in two countries and three states. NO ONE like the motor vehicle bureau, whatever you call it. It’s always a drag.
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I’m just outside of Portland and our DMV doesn’t have nearly that many people in it. Great shots. Strange the government doesn’t want cameras. 🙂
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Yes, VERY strange. Why not? It’s not the CIA, is it? Maybe it is? And they haven’t told us?
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Waiting for Godot.
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I think Godot is still there. Waiting. And waiting. And waiting.
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Interestingly it is also illegal here (Southern Africa) to take pictures in public buildings; I thought that was an African oddity. Clearly it’s not. And many people ‘on the street’ take umbrage if you want to take their picture, anywhere – that is why most of my photohraphs are of people’s backs 😉
Also, we would probably get ourselves arrested if caught taking photos of bridges …
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Okay. I guess govenrmental paranoia is international. Why does that no surprise me?
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A snapshot of government at its finest… 😉
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Maybe that’s why they didn’t want me to take the pictures ?
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But of course… I’m surprised you aren’t in a dungeon beneath the DMV somewhere, minus camera. 😉
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I don’t get the paranoia. Would the DMV (in Mass, it’s the RMV because we have to do it differently) be a terrorist target? I can see it being the target of irate citizens … and they don’t need no stinkin’ pictures. They know where and who they are mad at … but terrorists? Really?
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great shots and I must tell you once again how beautiful your blog changes are everyday- I love how the photo always coordinates with the backgrounds.
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Thank you. It isn’t always easy. I also try to pick a head picture that won’t clash with whatever photos I’m displaying, so it get complicated. But kind of fun. My own little daily puzzle.
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If I would show you the equivalent picture of any of our local DMV offices you would notice striking differences. It would be twice as big, twice as crowded and 90% latino. Amazing how many Mexicans have immigrated to Oregon over the centuries. :0
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Probably one of the great levelers of a local society. Sooner or later, everyone winds up at the RMV. Worcester is a poor area, got a bit of everyone from everywhere. Total melting pot and everyone — EVERYONE — is pissed off.
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I remember an incident Yeats ago at my local DMV in Ferguson, MO. Yes, the same town in the news recently. There was a long line out the door and no air conditioning. A group of gang bangers wandered in and barged to the front of the line, daring anyone, including the fact feral worker, to challenge them. A heavy black woman with a baby on each hip walked up to the short punk leader of that gang, grabbed him by the scruff of his neck and picked him clean off the floor. She deposited him on the sidewalk outside saying she’d been waiting in line for an hour and no punk was going to push their was to the front ahead of her. He picked himself of and tried to save as much face with his gang as he could muster as he slinked off down the street. Everyone cheered the lady.
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Great shots. 😀
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I had to take them really fast before they grabbed my camera and told me I wasn’t allowed to take pictures. Why not, I wonder? What are they hiding?
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You just might be on to something 🙂 I almost went to work for the CIA when I was 20. My life would have been so different if I did.
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They have the world’s BEST benefits program. I wish I had too, but I think I would never have passed the physical. Or been able to learn the languages. They have a cool website and list the requirements to get into their program. It looks like a great job.
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I have actually met some people who are retried from the CIA (years ago) and they said if I did get the job I would definitely have been taken care of. I interviewed, went to DC for physical and mental testing, got my top secret clearance and was offered the job. But someone forgot to file a piece of paper and someone else transferred and took my job. It was a very exciting time in my life.
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My back went very early, so I was out of the running before the running started. But wouldn’t that have been a different life for you! Your photographic skills would have been very useful … in a quite different way 🙂
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