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teh DMV r teh stoopid
I got a registration renewal notice in the mail today. Normal, you say? I wondered what they could possibly be doing sending it to me so early, since it doesn't come due until October (which already is getting me to double-pay for a month -- I did all the paperwork in November, but they consider the date that the vehicle actually entered the state to be the starting point). So I opened the envelope, and found out that they are asking me to renew the original registration of the car -- the one that came due in July (I originally purchased the car in July 2004). And which should have been invalidated when I registered my car in Ontario last June. Which I notified them of, in writing, at the time, with copies of my new registration and everything. But hey, the DMV never acknowledges anything. Maybe they never even got my notice. Maybe. Whatev.
But: I re-registered the same car back here in California last October, as I said. Same car. Same VIN. They must not have any duplicate-checking in their system, because this car is apparently now in there under two different license plate numbers. And the crowning glory of this is that when I re-registered the car, they made me physically surrender the old license plates to them (logically enough), the very license number which they are now asking me to buy new stickers for. They know (or certainly should know!) damn good and well that those plates are no longer extant, and that the car which had them now has new ones (and I do! I got those in January).
Seriously, WTF? "The left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing" doesn't even apply. I don't think they even have both hands in the first place. They certainly couldn't find their ass with them. However, I guarantee I can find their ass, and when I do, they are not going to like what I am going to do to it.
Also, this makes me worry that Ontario may soon be sending me a renewal notice of their own (at the place where I'm not, natch, to wit,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
enotsola's house). I'm going to have to get on the horn with them on Monday and see if they did, in fact, hear any whisper of the fact that my car is no longer registered in their jurisdiction.
But: I re-registered the same car back here in California last October, as I said. Same car. Same VIN. They must not have any duplicate-checking in their system, because this car is apparently now in there under two different license plate numbers. And the crowning glory of this is that when I re-registered the car, they made me physically surrender the old license plates to them (logically enough), the very license number which they are now asking me to buy new stickers for. They know (or certainly should know!) damn good and well that those plates are no longer extant, and that the car which had them now has new ones (and I do! I got those in January).
Seriously, WTF? "The left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing" doesn't even apply. I don't think they even have both hands in the first place. They certainly couldn't find their ass with them. However, I guarantee I can find their ass, and when I do, they are not going to like what I am going to do to it.
Also, this makes me worry that Ontario may soon be sending me a renewal notice of their own (at the place where I'm not, natch, to wit,
enotsola's house). I'm going to have to get on the horn with them on Monday and see if they did, in fact, hear any whisper of the fact that my car is no longer registered in their jurisdiction.