Baby You Can Drive My Car! Wait - No You Can't. But *I* So Totally Can. Whee!

[sisabet]

Happy birthday to permetaform who should be out celebrating and eating sushi instead of reading this LJ. Go - par-tay.

Now - as a Public Service Announcement - if you live in Fayette County Kentucky and for any reason you need to go to the Department of Motor Vehicles, you should wait until the first game UK plays in the NCAA championship starts. Go then - seriously, March Madness will clear the way - you shall see no lines. There will be County Clerks sitting behind their desks with nothing to do!

In related news, my car is now the proud wearer of an adorable cat/dog license plate that urges us all to spay and neuter our pets. I used to think the Buick couldn't get any cuter. I was wrong.

Now - if you know me, you might have known that for months now I have been dreading my vehicle's inspection. In fact, I have been dreading it so much that if I hadn't gotten a ticket for having expired tags, I'd still have expired tags. See, my tail-lights still worked after the uninsured woman rear-ended me last year - but the left one was all cracked (and okay, fine, broken) and everyone I spoke with told me that there was no way I could get my vehicle's registration moved to Kentucky because I won't pass inspection like that.

So I fretted and that was pretty much it until I got the ticket and sockkpuppett explained to me that if I continue to do nothing then it could result in a bench warrant and dudes! I can act all tough and stuff, but only on paper. I would never survive prison. I watched Oz!

So last week a local salvage yard found a taillight for me and Daddy was able to install it and now my car looks so much better. Seriously - I was so sad everytime I saw the crunched up part and now all I have to do is locate a bumper (and since there is no aftermarket for the bumper it is either buy it OEM or locate a crash part and Buicks take time to show up in junk yards because the little old ladies that drive them don't tend to, you know, total them out. I knew this when I bought the car, but man. If it was a Camry - I'd have it fixed already. Hell - even a Jeep. People who buy Jeeps so can't drive them).

But now the Buick is back to being all cute and almost shiny (I have to wash it) and so when the inspector came out into the parking garage today to look it over, I was ready.


Me: So - do you need me to turn the car on?

Inspector: [comparing VINs] Yes, I need mileage and this thing is digital, right?

Me: Right [starts car]. You want me to turn on the lights now?

Inspector: Not necessary - I only check the VIN, mileage and I need to see your driver's license.

Me: [hands over license] Are you sure? Here [turns on lights] they all work, see?

Inspector: I've got all I need.

Me: Well, can you just make note somewhere that all my lights are intact and work?

Inspector: [Walks back into the building]

Me: [following] Just like, in the margins? Could say "lamps intact" somewhere? Sir? Sir?




That was just so disappointing! But, my car is looking better and I am monitoring eBay and I have a salvage dude on the lookout for any black buick bumpers that will fit my model year, so there is that.

I also have to get new brakes soon for the car, but I think that will be the end of any major stress for at least a few months.

I'd get a Buick Icon, but they totally pissed me off with this whole new marketing campaign that I am just not even talking to them. Grrrr. But hey! My default shattering sisabet icon kinda looks like my car! To me it does.

So - now I pay my fine for the expired tags, I pay for my sofa and if anything is left from the combined fund of "Don't go to jail/Find a Place to sit" then I can buy Carnivale. Or go to the eye doctor.

I really should go to the eye doctor. And putting off my trip to the Dermatologist because he might want to do more biopsies and my PPO sucks is pretty stupid, especially since I keep telling me flist to go. And then there is the other stuff I have been negligent about without the regular physical checkups.

Okay - so now that my car is getting repaired and legal - it is time to take the focus on improving/maintaining my body.

This is all getting older is - isn't it? There isn't any great big banner or party - it is just now you have to kind of make certain that you work on maintenance on everything.

Although, on the plus side? When I am deciding which cereal to buy, I can totally base my purchase on what the toy surprise is and no one is there to tell me otherwise.

Whoo- Hoo!

Comments

[fyrdrakken]

Reminds me of being told repeatedly that my car wouldn't pass inspection without a working horn and having it pass two or three years in a row. Also reminds me of getting ticketed for my own expired inspection and spending $600 on repair, inspection, and token fine to deal with said ticket a few months back.