I'll Give You a State Emissions Inspection!
I have a couple of weeks until the car I drove from TX's VA temp registration runs out and I also have a few weeks until my new car's temp tags run out. I need a state emissions inspection for both. So... I went down to the local emissions place today; this place is literally a mile from me. I've had an inspection done before in TX and I was fully expecting this take take maybe 1/2 hour if someone was in line before me. Lucky me, the car before me was almost done-- except that as she's pulling her car out, the inspector is leaning into it and chatting with her. Meanwhile, my car is parked behind the line and I'm waiting. So I wait and he's still chatting so I wait some more. Finally, when he is done chatting he walks over and the rest I shall write in play form:
ME: Hey, how's it going? I need to get a state inspection done on my car.
INSPECTOR: You need an emissions inspection.
(at this point he just gets in my car, sits down, and holds out his hand)
INSPECTOR: Keys... keys!
(I'm kind of taken aback but I hand him the keys. He drives my car into the inspection station. Walks out and then walks over to where the woman whose car he just inspected is now parked. He leans into her car and I'm just sittting there thinking what the hell is going on? So I wait... and then I get tired of waiting so I walk up to another attendant)
ME: Hello, can you back my car out please. I wanted to get an inspection done, but he just pulled it in and now he's over there talking to that chick. I don't want to sit here all day.
ATTENDANT: I can't. I'm not an inspector.
ME: Dude, you can't back my car out because you're not an inspector? That's ridiculous. You better call your buddy over here and tell him to back my car out now so I can go somewhere else and get this done.
(at this point the attendant walks over to the inspector and tells him that I've been yelling about my car so he needs to back it out. [I was upset but I wasn't yelling, but that's ok])
INSPECTOR: (to ME+ATTENDANT) It needs to check with the DMV. I'm checking it with the DMV.
ME: No you're not, you're out there speaking to that woman! How long does checking it with the DMV take? Are you doing that right now? It's computerized. Do you have the world's slowest computer?
Long story short, I drove away just in time to see his boss screaming at him and his lady friend driving away. Moral of the story... none really, but I'm paying for the emissions to be tested on my car; not for you to mack on some chick.
I have a couple of weeks until the car I drove from TX's VA temp registration runs out and I also have a few weeks until my new car's temp tags run out. I need a state emissions inspection for both. So... I went down to the local emissions place today; this place is literally a mile from me. I've had an inspection done before in TX and I was fully expecting this take take maybe 1/2 hour if someone was in line before me. Lucky me, the car before me was almost done-- except that as she's pulling her car out, the inspector is leaning into it and chatting with her. Meanwhile, my car is parked behind the line and I'm waiting. So I wait and he's still chatting so I wait some more. Finally, when he is done chatting he walks over and the rest I shall write in play form:
ME: Hey, how's it going? I need to get a state inspection done on my car.
INSPECTOR: You need an emissions inspection.
(at this point he just gets in my car, sits down, and holds out his hand)
INSPECTOR: Keys... keys!
(I'm kind of taken aback but I hand him the keys. He drives my car into the inspection station. Walks out and then walks over to where the woman whose car he just inspected is now parked. He leans into her car and I'm just sittting there thinking what the hell is going on? So I wait... and then I get tired of waiting so I walk up to another attendant)
ME: Hello, can you back my car out please. I wanted to get an inspection done, but he just pulled it in and now he's over there talking to that chick. I don't want to sit here all day.
ATTENDANT: I can't. I'm not an inspector.
ME: Dude, you can't back my car out because you're not an inspector? That's ridiculous. You better call your buddy over here and tell him to back my car out now so I can go somewhere else and get this done.
(at this point the attendant walks over to the inspector and tells him that I've been yelling about my car so he needs to back it out. [I was upset but I wasn't yelling, but that's ok])
INSPECTOR: (to ME+ATTENDANT) It needs to check with the DMV. I'm checking it with the DMV.
ME: No you're not, you're out there speaking to that woman! How long does checking it with the DMV take? Are you doing that right now? It's computerized. Do you have the world's slowest computer?
Long story short, I drove away just in time to see his boss screaming at him and his lady friend driving away. Moral of the story... none really, but I'm paying for the emissions to be tested on my car; not for you to mack on some chick.
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