Details, Details

So, R being away on vacation makes this a good time to get all our cars serviced, because if we borrow hers, then we have a spare to rotate among the three of us, depending on whose car is in the shop which day.

It all sounds so simple.

After I made these arrangements, I remembered hearing her say that her car had been due for inspection in June, so the night before she left, I told her she'd better bring me back a nice present from Mexico, since I was clearly going to have to take her car for inspection the first day I had it. She doesn't take the car to work, and only really drives around at night or on weekends, so she's less likely to be noticed than I am, driving around in the daylight. (Our cars have colored windshield stickers that tell when they have to be inspected next.) I was driving the car back here from her place a few hours ago and I suddenly noticed that her sticker -- I could only see it from the back -- is green. I don't think the sticker in my car is green. When I got home, I got out and looked at her sticker from the front. Yes indeed, it was due for inspection in June. June 2007.

Oy. This is not a simple hours-at-the-inspection-station thing. That would certainly involve some sort of fine. This is more like a take-the-car-to-a-private-inspection-facility thing. I looked them up, I made a list, I'll call in the morning.

Except.

Just for the hell of it, I went out to check the car. The current registration is not there. It's either in her wallet -- in Mexico -- or it was never renewed. Either way, the whole project is now OUT OF MY HANDS. HA! (I just hope that after a year+ of escaping detection, I don't get caught with a ticket in the next few days. (Talk about your irony.) I'll try to stay local and limit my activities, I guess.

I have some cooking on tap for tomorrow, which is to say that I actually purchased some dead animal product today. (Chicken.) I'm working on improving my breakfast and lunch, but on days we don't go out for dinner, there's just nothing here to eat. (I just had a tuna sandwich.)

And that's me for today. It's always something.


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