It is Xmas eve 2011. I take a bus that goes directly from Weehawken to Bayonne, the closest DMV that deals with suspensions.

I'm the only one on the bus. It runs 5 times a day only in the morning from this direction and won't pick up any passengers after Journal Square ... just drop off.

I wait outside the DMV while they open late due to installing decorations. The mob is a bit restless. Few have their documents.

I go to clear my suspension. It took quite a while. No one in front of me has their right papers. The system doesn't show them paid. One argues so much he is arrested.

Finally my turn. I have my papers. They show me paid. They clear me, but I have to return to the first line to get a new number for the license line.

Once I clear that, wait my turn, the clerk apologizes since I no longer appear on the system. A supervisor comes. Another apology. It seems I've waited too long. I have to start again. Learner's permit, road test, etc.

I thank them. Inform them that I am moving. I'll get the license in NY or FL.