So I took 464 through emissions. It passed. I went across the street and renewed my registration. Paid in full, got my 2011 tab for the license plate – done deal. Then I had the title branded. Unfortunately, the dullard who performed the transaction didn’t tell me that salvaging the title canceled the registration and made the car ‘unlawful for highway use’ in the state of Arizona. I had to get a level III inspection at the DMV to ensure the car was roadworthy.

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Two Galants, both alike in dignity,
In fair Phoenix, where we lay our scene,
From ancient sloth break to new irresponsibility,
Where texting fingers make drivers’ hands unclean.
From forth the fatal lanes of these Phoenix roads
A pair of star-cross’d Galants are totaled out;
Whole misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death make racing possible.
The fearful passage of their death-marked titles,
And continuance of their owner’s rage,
Which, but his Mitsus’ end, nought could remove,
Is now the two minutes’ traffic of this page;
The which if you with patient ears attend,
Where here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

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2 years, 2 months, and 2 weeks after the Kia Incident – where some idiot made a left turn in front of me, I broadsided him, and 195/2000 was totalled by the insurance company – I got rear-ended in 464/1000 by someone in a Jetta on my way home from work.

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