I made a discovery yesterday.
It is easier to get your hands on a monkey or tiger than a motor vehicle replacement title right now. By “monkey” I mean the cute little primates that swing from tree to tree eating bananas and flinging their dung at all who annoy them. By “tiger” I mean the big orange cats with stripes and giant teeth that will gorram eat you if you annoy them too much. I explicitly mean live animals, not toys, pictures, or anything else. Actual critters like you see at the zoo.
Last week a guy came over asking to buy my truck. We talked about it Friday, he made me an offer I could live with, said he’d be back Saturday to pick it up, and we shook on it. Slick as snot.
Yeah… I spent the next three hours tearing my office and bedroom apart looking for the title. It was nowhere I remembered putting it or would have. Spent a couple hours Sturday morning searching for it, still no dice, and called to let him know what was going on. We agreed that as soon as I had the replacement title we would proceed as planned.
Since it was a long weekend, I couldn’t get to the DMV until yesterday. Head over after work with the form in my hand and cash in my pocket. Signs on the building “Temporarily Closed.” Go inside to check out the dropbox, and not only is there no indication what it would cost to get the duplicate, but they wanted a check or money order. Gah. So Stacie got on the phone and a couple hours later got me an appointment to get it taken care of tomorrow at a different location.
Total elapsed time, about three gorram hours. Plus the half hour appointment tomorrow.
Being curious, I decided to see how hard it would be to get a tiger. You can order a live female 5 month old Bengal tiger for just short of $14,000. Takes a few emails, but you could theoretically do it without leaving the house.
Looked into getting a monkey. Same deal, but $4,000-$8,000 depending on age, temperament, etc.
Thanks to corona, it is easier to get a monkey or tiger than a piece of paper from the DMV.
Ok, now that is darn funny.