A Puzzle
Yes, Flist, I have a puzzle for you.
A while ago, my parents brought down a car they weren't using, figuring a 200K mile Subaru was more reliable than our 300K Toyota, and signed it over to us. I didn't want to insure it until the income was more stable (and actually I'd hoped the Toyota would leave, but no dice there...) and so it sat in the driveway for a while.
It has a car alarm. Something set it off while I wasn't here, and Spouse had trouble turning it off or wasn't home or something, and the battery died. Now, to pass the absolutely mandatory emissions test, it has to have been driven 150 miles. With no license plate. I called the DMV to ask how to go about doing this, and whether they had some sort of temporary tag so I could do this legally and not get pulled over every ten feet. No advice, no such animal. No, I wasn't the first person it had ever happened to, but the lady had no idea what the others had done, or if she did she wasn't telling.
Mechanic suggested sweet-talking a used-car dealer into letting me have a dealership plate or cardboard taggie or some such. I expect this would cost money. However, this is the only suggestion that's been presented. Any other ideas, or advice on doing such sweet talk and/or bribery?
Alternately, I think 150 miles is 1000 laps of our horseshoe driveway. Just running won't do it, apparently. It has to actually move.