Might have easier to change his name to Gart.  :)

Sally, now use your imagination, the rabbit ears and Gart ........... hummmmmm.  Sounds like another spicy blog to me .......... LOL

Sandra: LOL!  I don't think I can look at Gary and call him Gart :)

George: That's pretty funny....I got Gary on the phone and reading this to him lol! I better go put some bunny something on before he gets home and spanks me for this....Hmmm...

Sally, it is very important that we pay attention to how things --- especially "names" are spelled. That's one of my pet peeves........people not paying attention to how I spell my name!! I am overly cautious since it's a big deal to me. ;-)

Teri: I know what you mean.... who would have thought they'd misspell Gary.  I ALWAYS check my name as it is misspelled often too....no e at the end...start with an s and stuff like that.

Sally, I know how you feel.  There was a typo made on the deed to my house.  Seems my house belongs to Robertala Rocca.  As you can see, the space is in the wrong place and the beginning of my last name is part of my first name!  I have been trying for 5 years to have this corrected and still can't get it right.  I was on the phone again today with the assessor's office.  Now, I have to go back to the title company again!!!  I'm thinking of changing my first name to Robertala!!

Oh goodness Roberta! Now that is pretty bad...  Keep on it...it will make a difference!

Sally-Well, George has a point....those Rabbit ears seem to fit a GART :)   I am still laughing at how you said duh.....since the T and Y are next to each other, it could be a typo ~ DUH....LOL :)  Thanks for this great laugh...now I am signing off :)

Sally- My children use to ask "Y" all the time. I would just say, because I said so. It would take only seconds. Your gart explanation was very complete. Thanks. Have a better day tomorrow.

Way to Go Sally! The trials and tribulations we citizens have to go through so the lesser intelligent among us can be guaranteed employment through our states and local governments is remarkable.

Good morning Sally,

I was thinking, (Oh my! and it's still morning!) Maybe Grat is the one with the bunny ears and Gary is the one you take out in public. Hummmm   guess that's not the case.

It was refreshing to learn that DMV admitted they made the mistake, that is worth a new blog in itself.

Have a great day!

Sally - Say hello to Gart for me!  Just kidding.  Oh don't you just love the DMV! I was there just a couple of weeks ago. The women next to me had been there for 5 hours trying to get a license, (and this was her third trip to the DMV) she finally gets it and they spell her name wrong!  Took her another hour for them to correct their typo.

I have a major problem with our DMV...they can't seem to verify my insurance which was never cancelled on one car but shows on my other..making me go to the office and inconveniencing me. Also they don't seem to understand that an SUV I traded in back in 2005 still shows on my record...I had to hunt down the old company and have them send me a letter that I had to bring back to the office to get it off my records...I once got a ticket because they never sent me the renwal...that I should know that it expires on my brithday...like that's the first thing I think about on my birthday. Say hello to Gart:)

Sally, Don't you just love that. Like you have nothing better to do with your time but to make round trips at $4 a gallon just for a "Y"

Good morning Sally,
Sandra's comment was fantastic, I would say she has had some experience dealing with DMV.  Let's see there is the water company, the electric company, cable company & DMV......can't get out of any of these without my blood pressure skyrocketing!

Sally, thanks for the chuckle this morning.  If they couldn't spell Gary right, imagine the trouble they must have had getting some of those Hawaiian words spelled.  LOL.

Celeste,

My daughter's name got changed fron "Dawn" to "Pawn" somewhere and it still shows up on junk mail some 10 years later!

Sally: good one! So technically you are also married to possibly the brother of Gary Sheeseman. Its not fun when it happens to you. I wonder if you could charge the town for their mistake?  Probably would cost to much or  then they would send the check to Gart.

Frustrating but at least you got it fixed...finally!

Sally,

Makes you just want to scratch your head and ask y??? It could have been worse it could have been 'Garu'!!! LOL Thanks,   Fran

Sally, doesn't it make it just make you wonder why it is so hard for them to fix?  If you or me, in our business see a typo, we fix it!  Why on earth does it take an act of congress, especially whe you have the paperwork in front of you, for the places like DMV to fix something!?

I dunno, Sally.  Gart sounds like a pretty cool name!  Great for a conversation starter!  And being just a little bit sloppy can turn into someone else's pain in the necj.  I mean neck!

My last name was spelled wrong last year on plane tickes to Europe.  They got everyone else's right in the family but mine.  It was not a reservation we made ourselves online so it was either the travel agent or the airline.  In any case it was a total pain to fix but we are glad we caught it before travel day.  

Sally, what a story.  I think it is univeral that DMVs are frustrating and difficult.  I always dread having to go to them although at least here the  offices are so small it's a bit easier than CA.  I'm glad you got your "Y"!

Sally.....great story.  Sometimes life is full of typo's and it is how we handle those typo's  Great Job.  By the way how was it being married to Gart for 15 minutes?   ;)

Kathy: Yeah...that was funny (in my head) but this time I WAS walking out with new title/reg!

Mark: I always had a great explanation to answer to the Y with my kids. I do believe that's Y I have a great line of communication with them :)

William: They opened at 9am with a long line. By 10am one of the window gals went on break!

Hal: Nope....I take my Gary everywhere lol!

Sandra: Poor lady. What really gets me is that the majority of stuff we can do online....except for of course changing typos.

Neal: Wow...you got problems!  You had a bunch of stuff to take care of...is this an ongoing problem?

Matt: Our gas is close to $3.70 but on outer islands over 4 bucks now. Still.....nothing better to do with my time is right!

Cynthia: I don't go into the rest....at all....unless I'm swapping a cable box.

Bob: No kidding! And we do have some really long Hawaiian names!

Richard: Oh, goodness. That's not good. Our last name gets misspelled a lot. Chessman lol!

Lloyd: I got the title/reg for free....and I know I would have made sure of that anyway!

Fran: You're too funny. Yeah, it could have been worse huh?

Audrey:  No kidding! I just had a draft for a deed changed for the future address instead of our office...bam....done in minutes!

Patricia: Funny!  And the conversation started here...lol!

Steve: Can you imagine the delay if you didn't catch it before that day? Oh, goodness....travel plans messed up.

Diane: We have big offices and all the "Satellite" offices all around the island....  it's still not easy :)

Pam: All in the manner of how I handle it :)  Actually, it was longer...we found out in January ... although technically it was over a year because our title was mailed in Jan 07. ....and I didn't like it one bit :)

Sally-at least it is fixed! :)  So now he is officially Gary and no longer Gart!  I have to tell you I posted not too long ago a post with the owner of our company's name.  Its simple right Nancy Dance...little did I know and for weeks it was up...the title read Nanny Dance...so glad I came across that before she did.  I think typo's are so easy to do and sometimes regardless of spell check...or rereading...I find typo's all the time. 

Now as far as the department of motor and vehicles...these types of mistakes can be costly...and really I wonder how hard can it be????? 

Midori: I had a typo in the first line of this post....and noticed it after I posted...within minutes it was change but wonder....what did the first two commentors think lol!

Sally, way to go.  That Y is very important.    I remember once asking my Grandmother to spell my name properly.  She was spelling Cathy instead of Kathy.  Her next card to me she spelled my name as Kathie.  At that point, I thought it would probably be hopeless.  I loved her dearly.

Kathy: Aww...grammas...don't ya love them? It is important...it can make a difference between owning something or not....because of a typo.

Hey I know the feeling. My phone bill has said Pryner for years. They still take my checks!

Wayne: Oh, goodness!  I'm glad I make sure to correct stuff. I would hate to be married to Gart Chessman lol!

Sally- Well, I have a problem a lot like this that after 10 years I still have not been able to get changed. My Tax returns are not accepted by the IRS with my Gasset name, only with my X married name. No matter how many times I send in my social sec card and marriage certificate they do not change it. 

Wow...that could be a problem trying to get all your stuff done. That's weird.

MODERATOR (I think it's Rich since Bob is away :)

Gary said this post is about him so he wants points...lol! He also said to put his picture up and ask....how can you guys deny this face :)

  hahahahahahahahahaha!

It's a good thing Gary's not the jealous type. He may have thought you were seeing a Gart behind his back!

Sally - just think what the lack of or addition of a simple 0 could be in a contract - the difference between $300000 and $3000000!  ($300,000 and $3,000,000 but it looked like an easier mistake without the commas)

Woo-hoo... Ain't it the truth; one typo can really screw up things.   Good going on the feature!

Sharon (above) -- great example!

Hi Sally - my maiden name was kielty, I got tons of junk mail addressed to Virginia Klutz for about a year - my mailman thought it was pretty funny.

What a hassle make sure to double check on the spelling next time..

Sounds so typical of a governmental screw-up. You're probably lucky that you were able to get it corrected at all considering it was DMV.

Glad it all worked out.

That was fast.  It has taken me nearly 25 years to get the tax department to close an old excise tax account.  Last year the manager explained to me that it takes time for the changes to take.  I asked her how many more years they needed.  Don't you love government?

Sally, no Garts in Hawaii?  I wonder if there's anyone named Gart anywhere in the U.S.?  Add an "h" and it becomes Garth -- both a great country singer, and Wayne's sidekick on Wayne's World.  One letter can make all the difference.

I used to be married to a Robert.  When my credit card renewal card came. it said William.  Your story reminded me of how much trouble I had to get it changed with that credit card company.  What a mess.  And to this day I have no idea where the William came from!

I would have changed the name to Gart.  Besides here in Detroit you would have waited in line for at least an hour to get to them 

One wrong letter equals over a year???  What's wrong with this picture?

My title has a O for a middle initial instead of a D.  I try to get it corrected every year (it's been 4 years) to no avail. 

Maybe you could have made Gart make the monthy payments instead of you and gary.

Thanks and good luck

Mike Warren

Lisa: Hahahaha!

Sharon: No kidding...now THAT would be a MISTAKE!  A very costly one!

Just stopping by to see what all the noise is about.....Hey Sis, tell Gart Gary I said, "Hi!"

Kathy: Oh, yeah...that example was a good one! 

Virginia: Oops...that's not good...what is it with mailmen. The one that comes to our office thinks he's hilarious and keeps calling me (since he found out my middle name) sally jo hahahaha. :) 

Mike: Yeah...it's when i become complacent that I miss things...thanks.

Doug: You're right.....lucky it got corrected quickly....too bad I didn't notice it a year earlier...

Anonymous: Thanks!

Randy: What a bummer huh? I know you've been telling me that for years....and still ...it's not fixed...

Brian: Well, there's the World According to Garp too. It still isn't Gary. LOL!

Karen: William isn't even close! Weird stuff huh?

Russ: Well, I guess waiting in line for 45 minutes was better ..... at least it's done and all is good.

Diane: That was on me....I didn't notice for a year (although I just threw the title in the safe) until I had to renew my registration)...

Sandra: Isn't that a bummer?  What's the problem with correcting ONE letter?

Mike: That's pretty funny! (cept I have no payments and just wanted to change the title/registration :)

Hey LIL Bro...I told him :)

"Gart" is lucky to have such a detailed oriented spouse! Ridiculous the red tape to correct an obvious typo!

You're funny....I wonder if I would have gone out with him in the beginning if his name was Gart loil!

HAHA....Gart. It might have been easier if he just changed his name. Sometimes the simplest things take the longest to fix!

Christy: I know...but hey....I think I like being married to ....gary :)

What a pain Sally!  I do not like dealing with the DMV, they are always rude here (Must be something they put in their coffee) and you have to wait f-o-r-e-v-e-r.