Getting A New License Plate
I went to the tax office yesterday to pay taxes on the bike and Blazer. Bike taxes are due at the end of this week, and I’ve been trying to get Hubby to pay them all month. We can’t pay them online here, and I hate mailing them in. I’ve mailed them in 3 weeks in advance before only to find out my payment still wasn’t received.
Since the taxes on the Blazer came in a few days ago I decided to go ahead and pay them both in one trip. Normally we have to go to the tax office, pay, get a receipt, take the receipt to the DMV, and pick up our registration and stickers. Thank God they changed that this year. I payed the taxes and received my stickers at the tax office. It’s nice because the tax office is in Walhalla. The DMV is 20 minutes away in Seneca, and then we all know how horrible it normally is hitting up the DMV.
They gave me the sticker for the bike tag, but I didn’t get stickers for the Blazer tag because I found out we’re in the first group to get one of the new tags. It’ll be mailed to us in 10-15 days. I understand we’ve had the old design forever, but I’m not sure I like the new one.
SC wants to be like everybody else now, so we’ve got to have a web address slapped across the bottom of our tags.
Hubby doesn’t like it at all, not because he doesn’t think it looks good, but because he’s got to give up his old tag. He’s transfered the same license plate to every single car he’s owned since he got his first car. He knows his tag number upside down and backwards, and we ended up with one of those that actually spells something out. He’s paid taxes and kept insurance on cars he wasn’t even driving before just to keep his old tag valid for the last 10 years, but I guess it’s time he finally parts with it.
He was whining around yesterday telling me it feels like they’re taking away a part of his past. I said it’s just a license plate! Come on! I honestly think he’s whining because he knows if he whines long enough I’ll feel sorry for him and buy him something nice like one of those luxury watches to shut him up. Not happening this time buddy!
He does want a personalized tag for the bike, so maybe I can get him to go that route instead. Having his own personalized tag would make him feel better, and he can finally have what he wants. We’ve put off getting the personalized tag just because I didn’t feel like paying extra for it.
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