DMV visited #2. when your registered kayak cracks and gets replaced.

wow.  I kept postponing my DMV visit due to other things happening in my life.  yesterday, I ran out of excuses and showed up at my appointment.

1st point:  anyone that doenst make a DMV appointment and would rather show up as a "walk-in"...that is true grit.  me?  no..appointment please.  the line was around the building!!!

I walk in to the empty appointment line and get a number.  5-10 minutes of sitting next to a dude that smell faintly of cooked cabbage.  I got CALLED!! I got a nice lady!  her eyes did glaze over as I explained my situation. 

I registered a kayak, one month later; I notice a crack, Hobie replaced my hull, new hull # means I need a new registration.  Billy did give me a new STATEMENT of ORIGIN for the new hull.  no bill of sale, no receipt.

the lady went into action.  she first made me fill out a statement of fact, and totaled my old hull. 

then she made me fill out that standard form 100something and treated my new hull like a free gift from Hobie.  I bought a new mussel sticker, and was out the door for $35!!!!

no big deal.  I fist-bumped the kind DMV angel and skipped out the door.

just in case this happens to you.  get that Statement of Origin..and a bill of sale showing FREE would be helpful, but not necessary. 

at the risk of breaking my unusual good experience at the DMV streak, I'll share too.  With NO appointment, I've walked in and out twice now of the Capitola DMV (spot burn). I still cant believe how fast it was, as the last time I showed up an hour early and found the line around the block to wait in.  But for some reason I keep getting lucky going right around 11:00am.  It's also been car registration for me, which both times as I talked to the guy directing dmv traffic pointed me to the first desk, handed them my papers, stuck card in reader and paid fee, and out the door I went.

I keep getting lucky going right around 11:00am. 

I believe this is the magic hour for DMV.  I've had good luck at the Concord DMV in the middle of the day.  I think there is a big morning rush, of people trying to get it done before they go to work, and a big rush at the end of the day as people get off work.