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Each weekday morning in the wee hours, cars line up outside the gates of the driver’s license examination station in Arden Hills full of people hoping to snag one of the few available slots between the day’s regularly scheduled appointments. During the busy summer, the first available appointment at testing stations across the metro area is eight weeks away. Some eager would-be drivers are unwilling or unable to wait two months for a guaranteed appointment. For them, the only option is to get in line — the earlier the better — for a chance at nabbing one of that day’s few canceled or open appointments. Every car holds a story.

Faduma Warsame, 24, and her mother, Segal Ali, arrived at 2 a.m. On a weekday last month and were fourth in line.

When the gates opened, they were ushered into a parking spot on the tarmac. Seven hours later — at 9 a.m. — they were still sitting in their Toyota Corolla looking sleepy and bored. They had no guarantee of getting a test that day, but their chances were good. Warsame was among the 15 unscheduled applicants that Driver and Vehicle Services regional supervisor Mark Larson hoped to squeeze in between the 80 or so regular appointments before the station closed at 4:30 p.m. He had turned away more than 20 other cars after 8 a.m. And told them to try again another day.

“Last Friday, I had 53 cars in line,” Larson said. “That was the highest we’ve had all summer. I tell them feel free to swing by again in the afternoon, but it all depends on how many appointments don’t show up. Yesterday, I only had two no-shows, so it took until 4 p.m. To get through the 15 people in the lot.” Minnesota’s 93 testing stations have given more than 70,000 road tests so far this year. Summer is the busiest time of year, when young people try to get a license before school resumes.

It generally goes smoothly for people who book a test well in advance and pass on their first attempt. But like most of the people in line, Warsame had failed her first road test. About 40 percent fail their first time. She failed a second time because it was raining and she neglected to clear the windows that fogged up while sitting in the car. When she found she couldn’t schedule a third test until October, she decided to try her chances and showed up at 6 a.m. She was too far back in the line to get a test that day, so this morning her mother left younger children alone at home in Minneapolis and they came hours before dawn.

“She is so frustrated. She wants to drive to work,” said Ali, who has been driving her daughter to a factory job in Chanhassen. Ik multimedia sampletron rar download free.

In a few weeks, Warsame also will resume classes at St. Paul College. “September is too late,” Warsame said. “I need a car to go to school.” Understandably, many working parents cannot take time off to wait in line. In the next car over, 16-year-old Amber Storey of Andover had arrived at 4 a.m. With her friend Cassie Ziniel and her friend’s mother, Joni Ziniel, who had time to chaperone. Storey took and failed her first test in early July, on her birthday.

“It ruined my birthday,” she said. “My advice is: Don’t schedule your test for your birthday.” If she passed this time, her dad planned to drive from work to sign the papers.

“It seems like there should be more instructors so it could go faster,” Joni Ziniel said. Next to them, Brandon Nelson, 16, also had been waiting since 4 a.m. He failed his first road test when he knocked over a cone while parallel parking, but he’s been practicing with cones at home. “I’m pretty confident,” the Andover teen said. “Not too nervous.” Family friend Mike Leschner had accompanied Nelson on two other early mornings to wait in line, but they hadn’t gotten a slot.

“He’s a good kid and I’m happy to help him,” Leschner said. “But this wait is pretty upsetting. They really have to change something. This is worse than Black Friday.” Some parents give up on the Twin Cities entirely and book appointments in rural Minnesota, where most stations currently have a five-week wait.

“I looked at Moorhead. I looked everywhere,” said Jeff Mudge of Gem Lake, who was determined to get his daughter Emily licensed this summer after she failed a first road test in May. “We were going to go anywhere to get this done. New Ulm had the first appointment we could get this summer, so we drove down and spent the night.” Mudge and his wife also waited several fruitless mornings earlier this summer in line in Arden Hills with Emily and an older son who needs a license before he leaves the state for school in September. Emily passed her test in New Ulm last week, but the delay messed up summer plans. Her parents had to drive her to tennis practice and tournaments.