The car registration is due in September, and I’ve been sitting on the bill for three weeks, not because I didn’t want to pay it but because I shuddered at the line I’d have to stand in at the Satellite City Hall down the hill waiting to reach the cashier. I don’t think I’ve ever spent less than an hour, muttering, watching The Food Network, or chatting with my fellow standees while waiting to pay the City.

With grim reluctance I went down there today, arriving at 1:20PM. There were four people in front of me. I was out of there at 1:25PM, $274.35 poorer but done for a year.

I don’t have any idea why this went so smoothly, unless going mid-week and a week before the end of the month has an impact.

I still need to make an appointment to get it inspected (that’s not due till October).