I have a 1978 Puch Maxi. This is a moped. It's not a motorcycle but still needs a license plate and registration. The registration is different than motorcycles, because mopeds have pedals. Like a bike. They are a MOtorcycle with PEDals. Get it. A MO PED. It's fun.\n\nTo be a proper moped, in the eyes of the gub'ment, the engine must be 50cc or less (contrasted with my 1964 Ford Galaxy with 4942 cc) and may not exceed 25mph. This means you don't have to have a motorcycle license. You might say there is an element of danger to going less than 25 mph on normal city streets. Those people would probably be correct. Might I note that 45 is a speed _limit_, not a speed requirement. Right.\n\nThe MVD on Larkspur doesn't see Mopeds very often and the employee helping me needed to get the assistant of two others looking over her shoulder and the opinions of 2 others. It seemed complicated. I can understand, since forms are forms and I hate seeing those very rare cases and forgetting about which form to use. These things happen.\n\nOverall a good experience and I was in and out _pretty_ quickly. They were all very nice.\n\n\nxxx\n\nI also have to add this. My gf was finally ready to update her license, and after recently getting her hair did, we headed to the same MVD where my Moped had started his new life. After waiting a short while for our number to be called, I had nature call. Screaming would be more appropriate.\n\nYou know those times you've been to the rest stop and the bathroom smells ungodly? Or you've been to see a Triple A baseball team at the community ballpark and it's smelled like wretched garbage and feces?\n\nI don't like public restrooms. I simply don't. I like privacy. I like enjoying my time, my private time, spending those moments to reflect peacefully. I don't like being away from home, but there are times when circumstance necessitates that I grin and bear it. I guessed the MVD would be a wretched place. 409 surface cleaner and Clorox bathroom poison will only kill so much bacteria before it loses the war. These things happen. They especially happen at the MVD on Larkspur.\n\nI now know why these places smell so bad. The rest stop, the ballpark, the one at the city park. The only reason anyone ever uses those restrooms is when they must. A wretch shit leads one to use wretched shitters.\n\n4 stars for a good experience despite the circumstance, and getting Bonnie G's Driver's License done quickly and with a great photo. Minus 1 star for forcing me to learn a life lesson about public restrooms before I should have needed to learn it. Which should be never.
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