It's official: Texas is more bureaucratic than Connecticut. The acid test--registering your vehicle and getting a driving license. My technique is to try to do each of these tasks in one trip. Well, it took two trips to get the cars registered, but only one trip for a license. What was the problem with vehicle registration? Not the insurance, not the inspection, but the lack of a spousal signature. I explained that the cars were listed as John or Mary Doe. The reason for this, I always heard, was so that either spouse could act as an agent over either vehicle. Not in Texas! Both John and Mary have to sign.
As for the licenses, well, we did that in one trip, so success on that score. But the powers that be require not one, not two, but three forms of identification, including your social security card. Talk about overkill! Connecticut processes the license (picture included) on the spot. Texas gives a piece of cardboard and says that the license will arrive in several weeks. If the DPS employee had asked for some advice on how to improve the process, I would gladly have given it. Strangely enough, she did not seek my advice.
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