Elon Musk has a 'Zootopia' moment at the DMV

So. Painfully. Slow.
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Sasha Lekach
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Billionaire tech CEOs--they're just like us! They have to deal with meetings, paperwork, and the dreaded DMV.

On Monday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk shared a moment from his morning trip to the DMV--but it seemed like he was having a good time at the bureaucratic hellhole.

He posted a photo of "Window 7" at a nondescript DMV cubicle and spotted the stuffed animal version of the sloth from the animated film Zootopia.

Apparently, Musk found a self-deprecating worker who knows how to make fun of himself. In the movie, the animal-run world includes a DMV office staffed by slow-moving and even slower-talking sloths.

Musk also posted the hilarious scene in which the ironically named Flash talks slowly to another sloth named Priscilla, voiced by Kristen Bell (who is known for being obsessed with sloths).

But Musk assured his followers that the real-person DMV staffer was "great." We can only assume that means he moved a bit quicker than Flash and Priscilla.

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Sasha is a news writer at Mashable's San Francisco office. She's an SF native who went to UC Davis and later received her master's from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She's been reporting out of her hometown over the years at Bay City News (news wire), SFGate (the San Francisco Chronicle website), and even made it out of California to write for the Chicago Tribune. She's been described as a bookworm and a gym rat.

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