Tuesday 14 December, 2004
Trying to get licensed
Can I say I had a busy day if I've still sat on front of the telly for several hours and had a nap on the sofa? It feels like I've had one anyway, but I guess it's all relative.
I decided that today was finally going to be the day I would go and take my driver's license test - the province allows me to use my foreign driver's license for 60 days after moving here so I thought I'd have to do something about this soonish. I can take a test and assuming I get over 80% of the questions right, I can exchange my current license without further tests. I'd taken couple of practice tests on-line and each time gotten 80-90% right so I was pretty confident I'd be able to pass.
So I go the ICBC office and give my documents to the lady, who points out that I have to have had the licence for over two years to be able to do this easy exchange, otherwise I'll need to go to the learners program. Well, I've had my license for twelve years, so this shouldn't be a problem - however, most of the time I lived in England I still had my old Finnish license that I only exchanged to the EU license about a year ago... Year and two months ago to be exact, like the lady pointed out - as the new license has the "valid from" date from that date and I have no proof of actually having a license beyond that.
Bummer. Seems like I need to get some official document from Finland proving when I got my license, and this might be a bit tricky.
In addition to that I've been running all over the city looking for that perfect present for Dragon... And for the first time I used the local bus. Although I might sound really pathetic by saying this, I'm still going to say it: that was fun! Not quite as neat as Finnish busses, but so much better than anything in England...
For late lunch I got a burger from Vera's Burger Shack. They advertise that they have the best burgers in town, and that's a claim that I just had to test - best burgers I've had in my entire life have come from Sammy's couple of blocks further. Now I'm not big on fast food, and I'd never buy anything from McDonald's and co, but real burgers made with real meat and original recepies while you wait are an entirely different thing altogether. I tried the BBQ burger and while it was quite satisfying, it didn't beat Sammy's Mexican burger.
Posted by kolibri at 14 December 19:02, 2004Lucky you, I had to take a driving test here.
And on the subject of burgers, the best I've had in Vancouver is on Broadway, it's called Moderne Burger and it's in the still of the old burger joints from the 50s.
Wally's Burger on Kingsway is supposed to be very good, but I've never tried them.
# 2 - woja (on December 16, 2004 09:33 AM):
"You can't beat Vera's meat"
*giggles - and shakes head*
# 3 - kolibri (on December 16, 2004 09:51 AM):
You think that's bad? They you're gonna love Mr. Lube: "Doing it right. Before your eyes."
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