When you go downtown to the courthouse to register and license your new boat and you see this sign posted on every teller window:
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Turn right around, head back to your vehicle and:
- pump another hours worth of time into your parking meter and
- grab a book or magazine.
You will need it. I did not and although I did not get a parking ticket, it took almost 90 minutes to register one boat and one trailer.
The problem was that they had last been registered in 2001 - 16 years ago - and that data had not been entered into the new system. The clerk was saying that they could call the State Capital to get the data and have it faxed. They also said that they could treat it as a hybrid new boat/old boat and issue a new Hull Identification Number and a new License Number. Needless to say, we went with that.
On top of everything, the poor clerk's computer system was slow as molasses and she could not get the credit card reader to work for about 15 minutes - had to unplug it from the network, power-cycle the reader itself and reconnect it.
Gave me the warm and fuzzies knowing that this was the "new" computer system at work - our tax dollars being spent wisely and with accountability.
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