CA Registration - Turk was right

[lotusmk9]

Hi Turk:
I am completely disappointed and angry with the DMV's procedure in issuing the SB100 #'s. I am sure that there are many others who feel the same. I was very optimistic a few weeks ago when I made a 9:00am appointment for today. I was at the office at 8:50am, handed in my paperwork then 2 or 3 of the clerks asked each other "are we still doing these SB100's"? Oh, Oh we are in trouble already I said to myself. Well they finally got their act together and the clerk who was helping (?) me asked me to take a seat as they had to call Sacramento for the #'s. Well 1 hour later (10 am) I was paged and was advised that they were unable to get through to SAC. The phone lines were all busy. The clerk took my home phone # and advised me that when they got through to SAC and got me a # they would call me. Never happened! So at about 2:00pm I returned to the DMV and now was advised that their computer was down. (!, ?). I offered to sit on a phone and to keep dialing SAC. But that was a no, no. I kept pleading my case but to no avail. Well now I figure I am really screwed. My wife and I are going on a business trip to Ottawa tomorrow morning the 3rd and will not return until Saturday the 10th. I am sure most if not all of the #'s will be gone by then. I know that some will say it is only "sour grapes" on my part but some guys who had appointments 2,3 even 4 hours later that mine received #'s and me "zero".
The DMV should have realized how large the demand and planned for it. Howard