My horse for a kingdom!
So here it is, 2:30am, and I'm awake, not because I'm trying to cram some extra words for NaNo (I hit 50K on the 8th and progress toward finishing the story is going well, hit 71K tonight) though I'll probably end up writing a bit on it, nor because I'm excited to be going home to NH, though is is also very cool, as I can see my friends more regularly and finally get some chicken fingers with my Chinese food ( apparently they don't do those outside New England?)
Nope, I'm sitting here after over two hours of lying in bed worrying about... my bloody car. Now, it's in dire need of repair, but I don't care about that as we managed to find an affordable replacement vehicle. The problem lies in the fact that apparently, if you don't have a title for your car (and I have had 5 cars in my life and only once had a title, because they don't issue titles in NH for older cars- I thought it was ten years, but apparently it's 15 years old and up) you are considered to have stolen it. There is basically no legal way to divest yourself of that festering pile of rust. You cannot sell it. You cannot scrap it. You cannot donate it Without A Title.
I have been calling around, asking for advice, looking things up on line. No one will touch it because I clearly stole a POS 22 year old rust bucket Volvo in order to get the whopping $250 one place offered me for it before they found out I didn't have a grail, after all.
I'm down to one viable option and some crazy Lucille Ball schemes. I'm hoping that the first works out, because the others will probably cost me a chunk of money I don't have. This option is draining the fluids from the car( as though I know any car vampires... how does one get this kind of operation done? Can I just drive it to a garage and say "Dry 'er dry, please!" Will they do this? Or do I need to go to some kind of recycling center?) and then have it towed, requiring, most likely for me to renew my AAA which expired a short bit ago on the car in question, then once that's done, changing it over( Can one do this? I assume so, but the way my luck is running, they'll charge me 5 million double dollars just to change it over...) to my new, somewhat shinier vehicle for the trip home in like a week and a half...
The long and short of it is that apparently, I neither own fully, nor am free of liability for this car, which seems to be a fine example of the "Catch 22." I can't do anything with it, but if I don't do anything with it, I'll be fined/ charged with somethingorother.
Nope, I'm sitting here after over two hours of lying in bed worrying about... my bloody car. Now, it's in dire need of repair, but I don't care about that as we managed to find an affordable replacement vehicle. The problem lies in the fact that apparently, if you don't have a title for your car (and I have had 5 cars in my life and only once had a title, because they don't issue titles in NH for older cars- I thought it was ten years, but apparently it's 15 years old and up) you are considered to have stolen it. There is basically no legal way to divest yourself of that festering pile of rust. You cannot sell it. You cannot scrap it. You cannot donate it Without A Title.
I have been calling around, asking for advice, looking things up on line. No one will touch it because I clearly stole a POS 22 year old rust bucket Volvo in order to get the whopping $250 one place offered me for it before they found out I didn't have a grail, after all.
I'm down to one viable option and some crazy Lucille Ball schemes. I'm hoping that the first works out, because the others will probably cost me a chunk of money I don't have. This option is draining the fluids from the car( as though I know any car vampires... how does one get this kind of operation done? Can I just drive it to a garage and say "Dry 'er dry, please!" Will they do this? Or do I need to go to some kind of recycling center?) and then have it towed, requiring, most likely for me to renew my AAA which expired a short bit ago on the car in question, then once that's done, changing it over( Can one do this? I assume so, but the way my luck is running, they'll charge me 5 million double dollars just to change it over...) to my new, somewhat shinier vehicle for the trip home in like a week and a half...
The long and short of it is that apparently, I neither own fully, nor am free of liability for this car, which seems to be a fine example of the "Catch 22." I can't do anything with it, but if I don't do anything with it, I'll be fined/ charged with somethingorother.