It was a day of bureaucratic hell for Pinga. She needed to extend her driver license so she went to Itabashi police but then they said that she needs to go to one of the three drivers license renewal centers in Tokyo. The reason she could not do that at the police was it was her first time renewing license after it got expired. So she went there and they told her that she needed to be attend two hours lecture as it was considered her first license renewal. She has the license since 18 but it got expired as she could not renew it in time in 2014. After an hour of lecture, there was a break and she went down to a info counter and asked about driving experience certificate and also asked if they can reconnect her previous driving experience before it got expired in 2014. Then the officer asked if she was attending the two hours lecture. She said yes and he said that is strange as they can now connect those expired license to the new one. Then Pinga has more than seven years of experience and that makes her eligible to have gold license that has longer expiration time and cheaper fee to extend. She did not need to take the lecture any longer as she just needed 30 minutes lecture for gold drivers. It turned out to be the officer who put her in wrong queue and license category was from an adjacent section and didn't ask the right questions to her. Poor Pinga wasted time and energy there. They have reimbursed a bit of money, apologized and she got gold license. Loooong day of license renewal for Pinga and Pingu. Pingu took care of the twins for like 7 hours.
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