Sillytoo
Member
Hello Peeps, only me. No, no driving licence yet, but you have probably guessed it!
What I find strange is that Soconfused got banned for 12 months only, yet is having a medical...? Surely you can't be a high risk offender having been given such a short ban? Why are you having a medical in the first place? I wouldn't drive without the note, but then again, it may be just me...
Sadly, I think I'm becoming a bit of an expert in the matter...
Anyways...called DVLA last Friday. Yeeees, I knoooow and soooooorry but simply couldn't wait until this week. Asked why my cover note had no date on it and actually got an apology! The person said he would send me another one with the date printed on it and I'm still waiting...Maybe I shouldn't have told him I didn't really care because I don't have a car and what I'm really after is the licence...?
Kept quizzing the poor bugger on whether it's the holiday period that's to blame or what the hell was the reason why I'd been waiting for so long... but he seemed like a nice chap so I didn't let rip. He said he honestly couldn't see why my case (which, may I remind you, was marked as high priority on the 26th of July) shouldn't be resolved this week. Well, it's only Wednesday I suppose and it's a bloody long way from Swindon if you're posting stuff via pigeons.
He also mentioned (and I could be wrong here) that they're getting....and this is the bit that I didn't quite hear: seven to eight or seventy to eighty thousand cases a month. Now, I'm inclined to believe it's 7-8K, 'cos otherwise, surely the roads would be empty...? Still seems a very high number. Why don't DVLA employ a few more people in times of such high demand? I'm sure some of the good people of Wales wouldn't mind coming off the dole to help the national crisis? Hell, I know quite a few people from down sarf who wouldn't mind getting a seasonal job if it's going.
Overall a bloody shambles as stated before. And Mr Waiting - if you got your licence by now, don't even dream about posting your good news here 'cos I'm pissed off.
No, not really please let us know if you got it back....
BTW it's my 16th wedding anniversary tomorrow and I was hoping to be able to have a car and surprise my husband (yes, I am a woman) to a short break in the country. Instead, we might have a walk in the park. And before you ask, he doesn't have a licence.
Long live the DVLA, the cesspit of all British bureaucracies, surely...?
Arrrrrrghhhhhhhh
What I find strange is that Soconfused got banned for 12 months only, yet is having a medical...? Surely you can't be a high risk offender having been given such a short ban? Why are you having a medical in the first place? I wouldn't drive without the note, but then again, it may be just me...
Sadly, I think I'm becoming a bit of an expert in the matter...
Anyways...called DVLA last Friday. Yeeees, I knoooow and soooooorry but simply couldn't wait until this week. Asked why my cover note had no date on it and actually got an apology! The person said he would send me another one with the date printed on it and I'm still waiting...Maybe I shouldn't have told him I didn't really care because I don't have a car and what I'm really after is the licence...?
Kept quizzing the poor bugger on whether it's the holiday period that's to blame or what the hell was the reason why I'd been waiting for so long... but he seemed like a nice chap so I didn't let rip. He said he honestly couldn't see why my case (which, may I remind you, was marked as high priority on the 26th of July) shouldn't be resolved this week. Well, it's only Wednesday I suppose and it's a bloody long way from Swindon if you're posting stuff via pigeons.
He also mentioned (and I could be wrong here) that they're getting....and this is the bit that I didn't quite hear: seven to eight or seventy to eighty thousand cases a month. Now, I'm inclined to believe it's 7-8K, 'cos otherwise, surely the roads would be empty...? Still seems a very high number. Why don't DVLA employ a few more people in times of such high demand? I'm sure some of the good people of Wales wouldn't mind coming off the dole to help the national crisis? Hell, I know quite a few people from down sarf who wouldn't mind getting a seasonal job if it's going.
Overall a bloody shambles as stated before. And Mr Waiting - if you got your licence by now, don't even dream about posting your good news here 'cos I'm pissed off.
No, not really please let us know if you got it back....
BTW it's my 16th wedding anniversary tomorrow and I was hoping to be able to have a car and surprise my husband (yes, I am a woman) to a short break in the country. Instead, we might have a walk in the park. And before you ask, he doesn't have a licence.
Long live the DVLA, the cesspit of all British bureaucracies, surely...?
Arrrrrrghhhhhhhh