Maybe you have heard the quip around South Carolina: "The other day I saw a guy with a sign that said, 'Where will you spend eternity?' It freaked me out because, at that time, I was on my way to the Department of Motor Vehicles."
Well, you won't hear Francis X. Archibald repeating it. He wrote to me four years ago to say that, despite a rash of complaints about the DMV, he had received fine service at the Ladson office.
Recently, he and his wife returned and left 33 minutes later with renewed licenses.
"The place was orderly, the servers friendly and the whole process not a bit of a hassle."

Elsa McDowell, Driver has praise for DMV, The Post & Courier, Charleston, S.C., October 13, 2001