Sick, Sad World
Someone explain to me why getting this damn car up and running is turning into such a big damn problem? Is it such a bad thing for me to want to be able to drive?
Ok, before i rant more, I guess i should explain. I bought a used car about a month ago, 2 days before we wrecked the truck and totaled it. ANYWAY, we have been doping the repairs to get it inspected, you have to have it inspected to get *real* tags for it in MD. So we got temp tags for it. They last 14 days. SO, we had it inspected before that and tried to take it back to the same place to have it reinspected since the 30 days was almost up on it, and they said ok we can do it tomorrow. So we dropped the car off and were told it would be done the following day. . It was the first on the list. OK. Well, this is where it started to suck. I called the mechanic the next day at 11am, 2pm, and 4pm...still the car hadn’t been in, But WOULD get done that day. So at 5pm I called and asked if it was done. The woman said no and she didn’t think they could do it that day. UGH!!!! So since it was the last day before i had to repay for the inspection all over again, we went and got the car, brought it home and had it checked the next day by the mechanic around the corner from us. NO problem, except that it didn’t pass again. Sigh starting to see a pattern? Ok so we have to fix 4 more things. No biggie. So this was when we went to get the temp tags. Six days ago.
This morning, we woke up and did normal stuff, eat grocery-shopping etc. Came back to the house at about 11am, and I was putting the groceries away. My S.O was getting the tools he needed together to go work on the car at a friends house. Normal day right? I thought so. Till about 2 minutes later. One of my neibours knocked on my door and asked if the car out front of the house was mine. I said yes. She then informed me that someone had been outside casing cars, and had stopped their car, got out and ripped my temp tag off my car and took off. She couldn’t get the tag number of the car, as it didn’t have a license plate on it. Just that it was a gray car. Big sigh. So we called the cops, filed a report. They told us to contact the MVA and tell them and see about getting a replacement temp tag. So we did. That took 3 hours. And I won’t even go into that. But we finally got the new temp tag. And life returns to normal. I hope.
But DAMN, how stupid of a criminal do ya have to be to do something like that during the day?
Anyway so went my day today.
Ok, before i rant more, I guess i should explain. I bought a used car about a month ago, 2 days before we wrecked the truck and totaled it. ANYWAY, we have been doping the repairs to get it inspected, you have to have it inspected to get *real* tags for it in MD. So we got temp tags for it. They last 14 days. SO, we had it inspected before that and tried to take it back to the same place to have it reinspected since the 30 days was almost up on it, and they said ok we can do it tomorrow. So we dropped the car off and were told it would be done the following day. . It was the first on the list. OK. Well, this is where it started to suck. I called the mechanic the next day at 11am, 2pm, and 4pm...still the car hadn’t been in, But WOULD get done that day. So at 5pm I called and asked if it was done. The woman said no and she didn’t think they could do it that day. UGH!!!! So since it was the last day before i had to repay for the inspection all over again, we went and got the car, brought it home and had it checked the next day by the mechanic around the corner from us. NO problem, except that it didn’t pass again. Sigh starting to see a pattern? Ok so we have to fix 4 more things. No biggie. So this was when we went to get the temp tags. Six days ago.
This morning, we woke up and did normal stuff, eat grocery-shopping etc. Came back to the house at about 11am, and I was putting the groceries away. My S.O was getting the tools he needed together to go work on the car at a friends house. Normal day right? I thought so. Till about 2 minutes later. One of my neibours knocked on my door and asked if the car out front of the house was mine. I said yes. She then informed me that someone had been outside casing cars, and had stopped their car, got out and ripped my temp tag off my car and took off. She couldn’t get the tag number of the car, as it didn’t have a license plate on it. Just that it was a gray car. Big sigh. So we called the cops, filed a report. They told us to contact the MVA and tell them and see about getting a replacement temp tag. So we did. That took 3 hours. And I won’t even go into that. But we finally got the new temp tag. And life returns to normal. I hope.
But DAMN, how stupid of a criminal do ya have to be to do something like that during the day?
Anyway so went my day today.