Back to the DMV
Jan. 17th, 2013 03:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plutherusActually, it wasn't so bad this time. I got a ticket for parking on the street downtown with expired tags a couple of weeks ago.
I meant to get around to it - just wasn't sure how I could register my car in Eugene when I spend so much time lately in Portland.
Last night, I got home and there was a sticker on my window that the landlord had put there threatening to tow the car because the tags were expired.
What the hell? The car was parked in my own reserved parking space. Since when is my car's status with the DMV any business at all of the landlords? Who appointed them registration tag enforcers? Yeah, we're having some words when I get home.
But for now, today I went in to the downtown Portland DMV to see if anything could be done up here, thinking maybe I'd have to get a temporary permit or something, then take a day off work to go down to Eugene to register it "permanently".
Turns out, yeah, something could be done from Portland: Fill out a form, give them some money, and they handed me the new renewal stickers right there. Yeah, an hour wait, then five minutes at the counter, and I was done.
So, tonight I go home, put the new stickers on my car, and go yell at the landlord for a bit. Yay.
I meant to get around to it - just wasn't sure how I could register my car in Eugene when I spend so much time lately in Portland.
Last night, I got home and there was a sticker on my window that the landlord had put there threatening to tow the car because the tags were expired.
What the hell? The car was parked in my own reserved parking space. Since when is my car's status with the DMV any business at all of the landlords? Who appointed them registration tag enforcers? Yeah, we're having some words when I get home.
But for now, today I went in to the downtown Portland DMV to see if anything could be done up here, thinking maybe I'd have to get a temporary permit or something, then take a day off work to go down to Eugene to register it "permanently".
Turns out, yeah, something could be done from Portland: Fill out a form, give them some money, and they handed me the new renewal stickers right there. Yeah, an hour wait, then five minutes at the counter, and I was done.
So, tonight I go home, put the new stickers on my car, and go yell at the landlord for a bit. Yay.
