So now that my van is repaired, I guess I'd better go get my tags renewed so I can legally drive it huh
So I go in ready to pay the $80-90 in fees to let me drive for another year.
But the clerk asks, "Have you been having trouble with your insurance?" Groaaan. "No, but I've had trouble with the county understanding my insurance."
See, last December I switched insurance companies. My existing policy was set to expire on the 20th, so I got a replacement policy on the 17th and let the first one expire. For three days I was covered by two policies at once.
Only some moron at the county gub'mint office put in that my first policy expired on the 7th, not the 20th, so they had on record that I had a lapse in coverage for a week and a half. That's illegal in Georgia.
I got pulled over in February and warned about this, went to the county clerk's office, and thought I had it straightened out.
I got pulled over for it again in June, had a court date in July (I think), and was pretty sure that by supplying the judge with papers from both insurance companies about the ending and beginning dates of my policy coverage I'd gotten it straitened out again.
Alas, they'd levied me with a $25 fee for lapsed coverage anyway, and didn't tell me about it -- not when I was pulled over either time, not at the county clerk's office, and not in court. And when I didn't pay the fee they didn't tell me about, they put on another $60 charge, to be paid whenever I got my tags renewed.
Boy, they sure know how to kick a guy when he's down.