5.0 :: good bye (and good riddance!)

Yesterday, I spent the whole goddamn day trying to take care of my Mustang problem.

Apparently the laws in this area state that a car with over 6 months of overdue registration can be towed without warning by the police. Someone on my street had complained to Scott, the local meter maid fake cop CSO, and he wasted no time in hitching the car up. The car was towed to an impound yard in Moraga, and I was told that after a few days they would go after the Registered Owner...the guy I bought the car from.

I had never gotten the title transfered to me, because I never really intended on driving the car. I simply bought it for the engine and the trans, but I didn't want to ruin the credit of this poor guy in San Leandro. I also didn't want him to come and firebomb my house.

So, I decided to pay all the fees associated with the car and get it junked ASAP. This was a little complicated I was a little hungover from my 5 beer + 2 whisky + 1 rum night, and riding through the swelteringly hot east bay was like riding through a wall of fire. Nonetheless, I went from Berkeley to Orinda, Orinda, to Moraga (a surprisingly long trip, because they are only joined by two long ass two-lane roads, Moraga to Lafayette (another long trip that was made longer by a huge construction detour), then back to Orinda...then to Moraga, where I waited in front of an impound yard for 45 gorram minutes for the asshole who told me he would be there at 3:00pm to arrive at 3:45p.

I then went to Walnut Creek to get a junk slip. I thought it would be a very complicated process, since I'm not the Registered Owner, and a super overdue registration would mean huge back fees. Fortunately, I caught my first break of the day, when the distracted DMV lady barely even cared about my shoddy paperwork and informed me that I only had 29 dollars worth of back fees on the car. I then headed BACK to Orinda, presented the junk slip, then paid 220 dollars for them to junk it.

On my way home I saw the CSO and I asked him if the Police would fine the previous RO, and he told me that they would not.

So ends that episode. I ended up paying 250 dollars to get rid of a car that was supposed to bring me a little bit of money.