#JohnGalt2014 @ Montana DMV

Posted by $ rockymountainpirate 9 years, 10 months ago to Pics
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Today I am wearing a t-shirt with A is A on it and my hat that says Atlas Shrugged. Now Non-Fiction. I had to pay my registration today. This is how it goes:
Clerk: May I help you.
Me: Yes, thank you. I hand her my renewal slip and prepare my check (with pirates on it of course.
Clerk: You have to get new plates.
Me: Why? What's wrong with the ugly ones I have?
Clerk: Those a the most popular ones. Your plates are 5 years old so you have to get new ones.
Me: Why?
Clerk: The state requires it because they say they fade after 5 years (note, there is no fading on of the plates on either of my vehicles). They just want to get more revenue.
Me: Yes they do. That is ridiculous. When I come next year and I get the permanent registration on this vehicle I'll never have to change my plates, even if they fade out completely.
Clerk: Yes, that's right.
Me: Idiocy...total (mumble, mumble) idiocy! I write my check and get the new plates.
The guy at the next counter kept inching further away from me. There was no place to put my postit's without some difficulties as this is the county courthouse too.

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  • Posted by $ rockymountainpirate 9 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The old ones are actually leaning up against the wall waiting for me to wash them and put them with my Nevada collection. What do you do with old plates except decorate your garage?
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  • Posted by SolitudeIsBliss 9 years, 10 months ago
    Should have asked them who recycles the old ones or do they just go to the landfill? what's more important to these looters: the environment or your money? I guess we know the answer to that one.
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  • Posted by plusaf 9 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Just wondering... how would a state prison or anywhere else 'keep an inventory of license plates' they need to 'get rid of'? Do they print and stamp them in advance at '5-year renewal time'?

    How many years ahead do they work, and how do they dispose of prestamped ones when a plate reaches the 'permanent plate' stage?

    Do they recycle? Just askin' :)
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  • Posted by khalling 9 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I use 2 or three as well. And that 's what comes out of the stupid dispenser in the first place. That new plate business is BS. They 've got the prisons chock full so must be an inventory overage. Should be cheaper
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  • Posted by $ rockymountainpirate 9 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yeah true. It is moocher central up here and they keep electing idiots.

    I need to get a NO CONFIDENCE stamp to put on multiple places on the ballot in November. I'll get a hand cramp otherwise.
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  • Posted by LetsShrug 9 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I 'say' plenty. I never make it easy for a useful idiot who's trying to force me to comply with nonsense. I actually try to get them to explain how what they're saying makes sense. "Make it make sense just so I can understand what I'm paying for..." They can't. And it forces THEM to realize they aren't making sense and that they are abusing their power.
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  • Posted by LetsShrug 9 years, 10 months ago
    Wow...your license plate looks brand new.... "faded"... good grief! All logic is lost.
    And, if I HAVE to use a public john, I ALWAYS use 2 or 3. You just paid for 500 with your faded license renewal fee... I hope you used them ALL.
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 9 years, 10 months ago
    Surprising for Montana. I thought it was one of the better states for eliminating nonsense.
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  • Posted by $ winterwind 9 years, 10 months ago
    tiny minds take please in even the tiniest difficulty they can cause others. And there's nothing you can say - they have to follow "the rules". grrrrrr.
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