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Article #49Re: Car licensing fees
From: Gayle Reeves - PRC C6609
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 14:57
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 14:57
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From gsweat Tue Aug 11 09:52:02 1992 Date: Tue, 11 Aug 92 09:52:02 CDT From: gsweat (Gene Sweat) To: greeves Subject: Re: Altek Content-Length: 165 No mention between the Sun and the AC-41 controller...and its not in the box. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm mm m m m m m m m Does it look like anything we mught have??? rgs In article <BRENNAN.92Aug7203617@yosemite.hal.com>, brennan@hal.com (Dave Brennan) writes: |> >>>>> On 29 Jul 92 03:40:53 GMT, elg@elgamy.sccsi.com (Eric Lee Green) said: |> |> > Well, I just paid $80 to register a car that is worth $400. |> |> > That is so ridiculously silly and stupid that it is hardly worth |> > mentioning. |> |> Really? I think the ridiculous part is that the car registration fee |> is so expensive. Everywhere else I've lived it has only been $20, maybe |> $30 per year. I spend too much time running around trying to take care |> of this car/license stuff. |> |> * First I went to get my license and they tell me that if I have a |> car I have to go register it first. I shouldn't have told them I |> had a car. |> |> * Before registering the car I called ahead and found out that I |> needed to have my car inspected before registering it and have |> proof of insurance (about the only part which makes sense). |> |> * I went to get my car inspected and they want to see my insurance. |> Why I don't know -- I only wanted the damn thing inspected. It's |> a good thing they only wanted to see a policy card from the company. |> |> * I called the insurance company to switch my insurance over to Texas, |> and luckily they didn't tell me to get a Texas license. I was also |> lucky that I stuck with the same company who doesn't seem to care |> about a NC ticket, which according to NC law can't effect my rates. |> What I really wanted to do was get a "clean" Texas license before |> switching the insurance just to be sure. My rates just about doubled |> anyhow which really sucked. |> |> * I finally got the car registered, if only because my NC registration |> was expiring. I still don't have a TX license, but I've got until |> September '93 for that :-) |> |> I think I've sufficiently used up my bitching quota for the day. |> |> -- |> Dave Brennan HaL Computer Systems |> brennan@hal.com (512) 794-2855 |> |> Visit the Emacs Lisp Archive: archive.cis.ohio-state.edu:pub/gnu/emacs Showing proof of insurance to get your vehicle inspected and to renew your drivers license and to renew your license tags does seem like alot - unless you have been hit twice by uninsured motorists and have to go thru the agony of using your own uninsured motorist insurance (which I shouldn't even need if everyone would obey the law) to have your car repaired. -- | Gayle Reeves | | Internet: greeves@arco.com | | | | ARCO is not responsible for any opinions expressed within. |
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Newsgroups: tx.general,tx.politics Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!europa.asd.contel.com!darwin.sura.net!convex!news.utdallas.edu!tamsun.tamu.edu!inetg1!greeves From: greeves@Edm.Arco.COM (Gayle Reeves - PRC C6609) Subject: Re: Car licensing fees Message-ID: <1992Aug11.145731.17273@Arco.COM> Originator: greeves@kahuna Sender: news@Arco.COM Organization: ARCO Exploration and Production Technology References: <7018@lib.tmc.edu> <712332331.1@mdf.FidoNet> <00712384853@elgamy.sccsi.com> <BRENNAN.92Aug7203617@yosemite.hal.com> Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 14:57:31 GMT Lines: 73