Posted: 7/14/2006 9:28:12 PM EDT
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Today I needed get my vehicle registered. Remembering my last experience at the DMV on Carey I thought about the DMV Express office on Donovan. That place was packed and the lady at the info desk said they didn't do new registrations there. I remember some one here saying to go to Pahrump or Mesquite. No lines, minimal wait time, etc. What soound better for someone who hates waiting rooms and people in general? Well, the drive out to Pahrump was was really nice and it gave my wife and I plenty of time to BS. I knew by the time I pulled into the parking lot and looked at the DMV office, this place was going to be a hoot. Their office was a double wide. What a freakshow they had going on inside. The people in there looked like the first two rows of the Grand Ole Opry and had the same amount of teeth. The room got quiet when we walked in the door. Thats a good sign. People kept giving me weird looks because of my Monty Python t shirt I was wearing. I'm sure quite a few brain cells were fried trying to figure out what my shirt said. Then I noticed signs everywhere stating no firearms were allowed on the property. What happens next? The craziest bitch I've seen in awhile walks in with a S&W Model 60 on her hip and a speed loader pouch as well. She decides to announce she was fired from there the day before and just wanted to use the ATM function on the self renewal kiosk. I was suprised to see that her co-workers weren't shrieking in fear and diving under their desks at the sight of an armed former co-worker. I'm wondering whats going to happen next. She leaves without killing her former boss and hands out some Sheriff campaign buttons as she hits the door. Then some meth head starts asking questions about how he can get his drivers license back after he gets through rehab and off house arrest. Lo and behold he has one of those ankle bracelet transmitters on his ankle. Finally, I get my vehicle registered and I'm out the door. We decide to go to Taco Bell and that was a big ass freak show. I never felt like a bigger outsider in my life. The wife and I made a quick escape from this strange oasis in the desert. My question is this, Is Parhump as weird as it seemed to us or is it really a nice little town where we only saw its denizens at a bad time? I thought going to Pahrump would have been a welcome break from the slime that seems to inhabit gov't offices in the valley, but I was wrong. I appreciated the convienience of getting in and out quickly but I just got a bad vibe from that whole town. I guess it doesn't help my wife and I just watched The Hills Have Eyes the other day either. 
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Since I'm a AAA member, I just go to the DMV kisok located in ther Henderson District Office. In and out in 3 minutes. I've been to Pahrump a few times. Never ran into wierdos like you did. Wife and I went to the assessors office to check on the location of my Father in Law's land out there. They all seemed nice. The wierdest thing I saw were the strippers causally dressed around town on their "out" day from the brothel. I went to a Pahrump parade a few years ago and it seemed small townish and "normal". You know, complete with Shriners in the 3 wheelers, old classic cars, hometown pagent queen etc. It was nice. |
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You think your day was weird? I was at that same DMV the other day with my kid (finally decided to get his license), and we were all just sitting around visiting before fillin out all them forms. Then in walks two of the strangest outsiders I ever saw. We didn't know either of em, obviously, and it got real quiet in the office cuz we didn't know what they wanted. I don't know where they was from, but they clearly weren't from around here, and sorta stuck out, like they didn't belong. They guy was wearing some weird shirt about snakes - we couldn't figure out what it meant. What bugged us was they they kept looking around at us, whispering to eachother and giggling. The lady was just silly, but the guy kept eyeballing us like we was doing something wrong. Well, we decided we wanted to get outta there so my boy went up and asked about how to get his license back after he's done with his house-arrest (some real trumped up, bullshit charges about 'drunk in public' that got him watching the tube on my couch 23 hours a day with one of them radio collars on his leg like they put on bears they wanna follow around). I felt a lot better when my wife's sister showed up. She used to work at the DMV, so she knows what's up with the place and knows how to deal with people who don't belong. She just lost her job, so she was out in the desert blowing off steam, and she had her favorite gun on her. I'm glad she was there, cuz them two strangers got kinda wiggy about her - they got quiet and were looking at her gun. We finally got outta there before they left ..... I hope everyone else at the DMV trailer is OK after those freaks left
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I was suprised to see that her co-workers weren't shrieking in fear and diving under their desks at the sight of an armed former co-worker I'm sorry you are wrong. Everybody knows that the mere sight, even mention, of a gun will cause massive wide panic, terrified stampeding liberals, SWAT responses, shoddy CNN reporting, etc. So it must not have heppened. Or is it possible, thatt ....GASP....guns really aren't that evil and the average American really doesn't give a damn if you wear one? |
I got it............It almost went over my head BUT I caught it.................LOL |
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GryphonX- that was a good one. Being from Ohio, I guess I should have been used to people from small towns. I guess I've been living in the city or in the military too long. As for the lady with the pistol. Im used to people carrying guns and don't think its a big deal. However, those signs were everywhere saying its illegal to bring a gun in the building and then none of the clerks said or did anything at all. That was interesting. Other than that I just thought it was weird how many looks we got from people when we went around town. My wife and I are as straightlaced and normal looking as they come and with as many people moving about in town as there was, I found it quite strange they paid so much attention to us. Over all, Pahrump seemed somewhat cool. I saw some really nice houses and some nice people there. Maybe I just saw all the goofs at once. |
Welcome to 'Nuvadah' the New Kalistan:I loved Nevada when I first moved here in 1973(yes a youngster than) you can't believe what a Puss Bucket this has become you think it's bad now,,,,just wait,,,,I have seen the face of the land I live in my once 'Battle Born' State gone to certain Hell,,,,saddens me so much,,,gonna have a Cheap Cigar,I am not complacent withever the outcome
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I moved to Nevada based on what I saw when I stayed with my Fiance in Reno for a couple of months back in 2002. Fast forward a couple of years in Madison, Wisconsin (Widely touted as the Berkeley of the Midwest), and the (now) wife and I move back to the Reno-Carson area. Guess what ..... IT'S TOTALLY DIFFERENT NOW, and that was only after being away for 3 frickin' years! At this rate, its going to be time to relocate to Montana and then seal the borders as soon as we're in. What the Fuck is going on here? |
| GryphonX, Well done, I haven't had such a good laugh in quite a while. Yes, the face of this planet is changing as we watch it. My wife and I "discovered" Las Vegas and Reno among other places about 25 years ago. We winter in Vegas and summer in upstate NY, another turd hole, but I digress. At least here I have a rifle range in my yard... Alas I digress further. As I was saying, you wrote well... Thanks. |
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