I am now an official Florida resident. I visited the License place this morning for the second time. I was armed with everything I thought they needed, or might need, to get my drivers license and my truck registered, with new Florida plates.
I brought my SS card, my Medicare card, my Birth Certificate and a couple of mails with my new address on them. I was lucky to get the same lady I had the first time, a nice person named Rona, at station seven.
She had me sign a bunch of stuff, even some electronic Q/A on a tablet with a pen. She made electronic copies of everything I had. She walked me back to a room and took my picture for my Drivers License. Then we went outside to my truck parked in front and she acted as notary for the VIN verification.
Finally, back at station seven, she handed over my new drivers license, which cost me $56. Then, as I anxiously awaited my new License Plate, with a new tag, and a Florida vehicle registration to stick up in my visor, she said: but there is one problem!
Then she handed me back my Farmers Insurance card, based in Tennessee, good untill December, and said I need Florida Auto Insurance. I told her I needed a gun to shoot myself.
So I called my Farmers agent Chad up in Lawrenceburg, TN, while standing right there in front of Rona. I said I've had a perfect record with Farmers for over twenty five years and I wanted that record, and account, passed on to a Farmers agent here, now.
The problem is, there are no Farmers Insurance agents in Florida. The whole thing is going electronic and straight to hell. Chad told me it takes an hour for him to reach corporate.
He said the best he could do is cancel my insurance now, today, and the balance of $67 will go back on my card. I told him I shut that Lawrenceburg bank account down and there is no card anymore, just mail it to me. He said he couldn't, but when it bounces from the card, the computer should issue a check. Maybe, OMG...
Fuck Farmers Insurance. I had a business card on my table here from an insurance guy named Danny I met at the Z the other night. It took me an hour but I drove there and got six months insurance on my truck for $296.
Tomorrow I go see Rona and get my vehicle plate, sticker and registration. I will officially be a Florida Resident with a Voter ID card coming in the mail.
Not some scumbag that crosses our border illegally, rapes our women and children and votes Democratic multiple times without any ID.