Going back!

My second interview at the nursing home is at 4:15 today. Here's to hoping we can meet on common ground, and that I will have a job offer soon.

In other news, the fiasco of trying to get my driver license CONTINUES!

Last night, Dave and I went BACK to the tag agency (this is 4 times, so far) with my title and the new registration I just got last Friday (which, you may recall, is in my old name), and asked them to correct my name while they're in the process of transferring the title to Oklahoma.

I took the marriage certificate, and my Social Security Card, and my Illinois title.

At first it seemed like they could do it....but no.
It seems that my middle initial on the old title is H, not B. Without something that adequately documents the change from H to B, they must leave it as H.

ALL of the old documents showing my old name are H, not B. It was the same on my old registration.

*sigh*

(Aside: this may be a repeat of something I've posted before...but....when I got married the first time, I changed my middle name to my maiden name, since I was the last one in the family.
By the time I got married the second time, my brother had had a son, so I was no longer the last one to bear the family name. I changed my middle name BACK to the one given to me at birth when I married last year. This has proven to be THE MOST HEINOUS of things to do, apparently, because NOT ONCE has it NOT been a problem in the process of changing my name on something!!)

SO....after Dave's expected "Oh, for cryin' out loud," or whatever it was he said, I was prepared to just let them transfer everything over to the legal last name, leaving the middle initial incorrect, and hope that my trip to the state police would result in the correction of H to B.

The tag agency rep could not understand why I was not in possession of COURT PAPERS showing my full name change.

I explained that, in Illinois, the marriage certificate shows the name BEFORE the wedding, not after, because you don't HAVE the new legal name when you fill out the application for the marriage certificate!

I explained that, for the change to be legal, all I had to do was submit it to the Social Security Administration, with a certified copy of the marriage certificate, and they would send me a new card, and my new name.... "Here," I said, "Here is the card. THAT is the only legal documentation that exists."

The rep I was working with this time said he could take a photo copy of everything I had brought with me, including my Illinois license, which shows the correct middle initial, and see what he could find out.

I paid my $12.50, with the .25c surcharge for using a credit card, and we left.

Then, the rep called me this morning.
He did some checking, and found a solution.
I have to GO BACK OVER THERE, and sign my Illinois title over to myself, one name to another, as though I sold the car to myself.

He said that the "tax commission" said that's the only way, since I don't have "court papers."

Now, YOU WOULD THINK that a federal document, my Social Security card, would be a sufficient alternative to "court papers," to prove that I am who I say I am...but IT'S NOT, IN OKLAHOMA!!

Instead, I literally have to falsify a different legal document to get them to acknowledge what is printed on the Social Security Card!

Holy, holy, crap.

SO--today, I am going back to the tag agency ONE MORE TIME, and then, later, I am going back to that nursing home.

Let's hope it's all good by the end of the day.