Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

I got quite a surprise today when we went to the DMV to renew our licenses.  We needed to take the written test and vision, and I had my form for my macular degeneration problem all filled out.  I was ready to take and fail the vision test, hopefully pass the written test and then have to do the hour driving test at some later date.  But this time my husband wanted to go to a different office, and after my trying to take the written test, and being blocked, the person at the counter did some heavy discussions with another person and in the end, they gave me the license for two more years.  No tests required, as I'd done it all last year.  Last year, the person at the other office told me I needed to come back in a year, but it turns out that was at his discretion.  And now, the doubts that maybe he was being hard on me these last couple of times came flooding back to me with the awareness that my older son was right:  I needed a different official.  He was giving me quite a hard time, which I hadn't wanted to believe. I mean, after all, I'm a nice person.   I'm in shock, because I didn't take care of myself.  I let him bully me a bit.  I have no doubt he felt he was doing people on the road a favor by attempting to take me off of it.  But why did I go back two times?  I really need some assertiveness training refreshers.  So I learned today, yet again, to stand up for myself better.  And today, I didn't even need to, because this office was fair and rational, and they trusted me and my eye doctor.  Lesson learned.