english 101

Teahna Naple

Professor Goldstein

Eng. 101-01

September 18,2015




               It was 10:00 a.m, I got out of bed, took a shower, and put my hair up in a sock bun. I had 

wanted at least the top half of me to look decent for the picture I was going to have to take for my 

permit. After finishing getting ready my peer mentor, Charles, arrived to bring me to the DMV.

When we arrived we ended up driving around the parking lot for at least 10 minutes searching for a 

spot. We finally park the car and head inside where we have to wait in line for a ticket, which 

determines when it is your turn to receive help, which did not take too long. When I received my 

ticket Charles and I found a place to sit down, at this point I began to look for things to occupy

myself with. I read the ticket in my hand, though there wasn't much to read on it,the one thing that 

did stand out on that ticket was it said there was at least a 45 minute wait. My eyes widened and my 

jaw dropped as I pointed it out to Charles to which he responded, "Now you have more time to 

study." Which I regretfully declined. I then continued to look for ways to occupy myself; I scrolled

through Facebook, Instagram, and looked at every story on my Snapchat. After realizing that it had 

been almost an hour since I had gotten my ticket I began to rant to Charles about how long it was 

taking. I started to twiddle my thumbs and then proceeded to make beats on my thighs, at that point 

Charles had said, " You might be disturbing others around you," so he put a stop to that. I began

to scroll through Facebook again when I realized how hungry I was and that i had not eaten 

breakfast. So I called my mother to ask her to bring me something to eat. Now this call was highly

unpleasant but unlike my raging mother I managed to keep my cool. However she had put me in a 

very bad mood and not even 10 minutes after the phone call my ticket number is announced. I walk

up to this woman's desk where she asks me to give her my forms of ID, which at the time were my

Social Security Number and my Birth Certificate. I handed her my two forms of ID and she proceeds

make copy's of them while I stand there angry and impatient . Finally she hands me my things back 

and asks for my 30 dollar fee, which I paid in cash, she then has me sit down in a chair for my 

picture. Still angry I sit down and without warning she snaps my picture. Without seeing What I 

looked like knowing I must have looked either very angry or very ugly or even a combination of both, 

the woman directs me to my testing area. It was not a very large room but it works.There were 

computers lined up against three walls, both sides and the back of the room, and a huge 

glass window in the front. There was a camera in every corner of the room to help catch someone in 

the act of cheating. I sat down at the computer closest to the door, at this point my mind was racing 

and I could not focus. I was nervous because I had not studied as much as I should have. I filled out 

everything that needed to be filled out before beginning the test. Finally I start the test, I fly through 

the road signs and what to do and not to do on the road but then I was given questions about fines 

which I then began to guess what the answers might be because I had not studied the fines at all. 

Rushing through the signs i finished the test with about 16 or 17 correct and 5 or 6 incorrect. I had

failed, walking out of that room was the worst part of my experience at the DMV, knowing i had just

wasted 30 dollars because of my lack of studying. I'll be taking some time to actually study before I

go back and try again. For now i will either be walking or taking the city bus.