The tale of the title.

It all started with the simple suggestion from a friend that I consider buying a car from a friend of his. I looked at it, thought it seemed cool, worked out a price with the owner, then purchased said car. It needed repair in order to be operable so it was in the shop when I purchased it. The morning of it's retrieval I went straight to the DOL to switch the title over but, instead of the typically easy trip that lasts a mere few minutes, a new life journey full of disappointment and annoyance would ensue. The DOL was apparently closed for the day due to some sort of training the entire branch was attending. I decided to head to the next closest one that I knew of which was about 20 minutes drive. It was, however, not the right "type" of DOL since they no longer dealt with non-human licensing. I then drove another 20 minutes to the next closest one I could find on my GPS. While there I was told I needed an additional signature from the same person since there was another line not filled in... he literally needed to sign it twice. The DOL closed at 1pm that day so even though I was able to drive up to Auburn to get that signature I would not be able to go back to the DOL until at least Monday. I wasn't able to get to the DOL on Monday but I was able to head there during my lunch break on Tuesday. Sadly/annoyingly, they told me I needed a whole new piece of paperwork filled out by the owner so I headed back there yet another time after I was done with work. Feeling confident this was all behind me I headed into the close DOL location first thing this morning and was yet again denied! The owner now needed to fill out another piece of paperwork describing why he accidentally put the wrong date and corrected it with his initials. I was so infuriated(this is an accurate, non-hyperbolic statement) that I decided to try a different DOL(20 minute drive away) to see if they would do it anyway... which they did not. So I headed back to Auburn AGAIN to get the paperwork filled out and headed to the DOL in Auburn immediately afterward. This time I did succeed but even my visit there wasn't without it's own challenges. The teller initially thought my paperwork(nearly rejecting it) was printed off by a computer due to the neatness of my handwriting. Then after going through all the paperwork, entering it all in the computer, utilizing my driver's license as the reference for my personal information, after I paid the fee with my debit card the teller then asked me to confirm the data on the actual printed title... to which I noted an error in the numbers of my address. I was given an option to restart the whole process over or simply fill out another piece of paper stating that I accepted the change in the computer right there. I obviously took the second option FINALLY ending the travails of this whole ordeal. Now... I will basically wrap this up mentally and emotionally having taken the time to write it all out in a word-vomiting exercise intended as both a general catharsis and a meager source of entertainment to any patient enough to read all the way through it. Not enough humor, really, but certainly a bit humorous by magnitude. Magnitudinous annoyance.