wow, a whole month of NOTHING

well, i think what i'm gonna post tonite about, will be concerning cars. automobiles to be exact. personal automobiles. i basically come from a city (new york) where cars aren't as necessary as they are in iowa. 'sides, my license was cancelled in 2000, for coming up 79 days short of fulfilling my requirement to have an intoxilizer installed in my car. i sold the thing, and didn't think twice about being short. anyway, i never knew they cancelled it. so i continued to rent hertz cars. i think i even got a renewed license back in 2005. so what gives?

i'm driving a hertz car and get into a bumper bump while in the drive-up windows as the downtown taco john's by some woman who was like all fussy and insisting that we call the cops. so she does just that. finally the cop came down, and spoke to me, then spoke to her. the cop comes back and tells me she's keeping my license because it was cancelled. no reason, nothing. i was livid. plus, i get a ticket for no insurance - i didn't know it was in the glove box of this rental. so no production of docs, means ticketeroo. i go to court and have it dismissed, obvious reasons. why would hertz not be insured to the tilt with their cars? there's no requirement of adding additional insurance, although for a fee you can have protection for the car.

this was all because when the dot punished me for an OWI back in 1999, and i sold my car before the winter. anyway, so in order to get my license back, i had to (1) buy a car; (2) get insurance, which usually requires a license, which usually requires insurance. see the catch 22 one gets in with the DOT? anyway, so i went out and bought a car for $400. a jalopy, something, to allow an install of that blower. then, oh get this, as soon as the blower gets installed, i can't get my car to run. it dies when letting up on the gas.

i live right next to my cousin gary. he's a stock car driver, and his son, scotty, followed in his dad's footsteps and races for a few seasons. did well too. anyway, so scotty has a auto repair shop, and i had it towed from the installation site to the auto repair shop of scotty's. for 6 days, scotty couldn't determine why it was doing what it was doing. so he said to take it to charlies. a friend intervened and said to take it to coopers, a well known expert on car engines.

they had it for six weeks.

in the sixth week, and after 2 emails, i find out that the blower people had been up and removed the device. all on their own. iow, they removed it 10 days early... day 69 of 79. that's why the dot is all up in arms about me getting this done. hell i'm up in arms about it.

now i'm stuck with a useless car - it runs, but you have to coax it in the beginning. it's junk. i know it, and i'm prepared to deal with it. oh and the kicker? AII (affordable ignition interlock), the blower people, refuse to install it in the same vehicle, so i either get a new car, or find a friend willing to put up with a blower for 10 days. this is where you get to know your TRUE friends.,