Just One?

After the North Carolina Department of Motor Vehicle we have to drive across town to the " plate office " you don't do all of it in the same building. To register the car we have to go to the " plate office ". So we drive over there, see the sign that says if you are registering a vehicle for the first time you must pay in cash and it's pretty expensive because they tax you car as " real property " again they assume that everyone knows what that means. I didn't I was thinking NY prices on a registration- wrong, way wrong. I had to go to the ATM while I left Dar on line, the ATM is in the parking lot so I walked over to it, was told by the ATM guard?! that I could not walk up to the ATM I had to be in a vehicle, so I got the car and got the cash and went back inside. When you walk in you notice 3 things, the room is divided in two sides, each side has different types of chairs, and the very large sign that says " there is no public bathroom ". There is a sign that directs you to take a certain color ticket depending on what you are there for. Pink tickets if you are registering a vehicle for the first time, white tickets for pretty much everything else. We take a pink ticket, the next sign tells you which side of the room to sit on, pink tickets sit on the right and white tickets sit on the left. We go to the right and sit down. Our chairs are cushioned, with backs, comfortable chairs, the white ticket holders get metal folding chairs, we think we got lucky...wrong. It was Dar that figured it out, people with pink tickets got to sit in the cushioned chairs because they were going to be there for a very, very long time. Finally they call our number and we go up to the window where the woman calls me " sug" I say nothing thinking maybe that is my name now I sure don't know. I give her the required documents which include, my birth certificate, social security card, NY registration and my brand new North Carolina drivers license. She looks at my brand new North Carolina drivers license and asks me " what is your name?" I say I don't know but then again I didn't know I ever lived in Arkansas. She asks what happened I tell her about the DMV czar, she says she is going to register my car in my legal name of Patricia which will then make my brand new North Carolina drivers license invalid. I think in my head " yippee this is so much fun " but say what am I supposed to do she insists my name is Patti Ann, she says she'll call over there and "set them straight and tell them to get me right back in to fix it". I say thank you and she hands me " a plate " I look at it and look at her and say " you only gave me one " say responds "that's right sug just one" I am still confused and then I say " it goes on the back? " to which she very gently responds " yes baby it goes on the back ". So we leave the plate office and go back to the DMV, where they take me right in but this time the DMV czar won't even look at me let alone take care of me so I go to some guy who doesn't ask any questions changes my name sends me back to the picture lady who doesn't ask me if I want to freshen up, she just takes my picture, which by this time I look even worse, she gives me my second brand new North Caroilina drivers license and sends me on my way.
Which brings me back to- what's my name. Last week I went to vote because you can vote early here, before election day, I don't know why but you can. So I did, I knew that I hadn't registered, so I told work I might be a little late with having to register and all. So I go to The Tar Landing Baptist Church to vote, I walk in a very nice woman asked me if I was registered I said no, she takes me to the woman who will do that. I sit down get out my NC drivers license show it to her, she says " I don't see a Patricia Flanagan at that address but I do see a Patti Ann Flanagan at that address - could that be you? " I say yes it could be, she then says " well sug you were registered at the DMV ".