Do Not Poke Angry Bear In Cage With Stick
It's a good thing I don't carry a knife, because I would most definitely have stabbed several people today.
First would be the Secretary of State's office. The whole office. I would have just stabbed the entire building. First they skip over my number. Then when they call the number after mine, I go up to the desk and say "You didn't call #27. I'm #27. I would like to be served first, please." Which elicited a number of disgusted looks.
Then, I'm told I can't get a title for my car. You got that? When last we left our heroine, her Evil Old Bank / Current Lien Holder would not give her the Michigan Title to her car. She claimed they had the original and they claimed they did not.
After searching my house over the entire weekend for a title (and finding none,) I decide to pay the money to have a new title issued.
Guess what! Ha ha! This is a funny story! Apparently I don't have a Michigan title! Funny! Because I have a receipt of application from the dealership IN MICHIGAN where I bought the car for a title to be issued IN MICHIGAN but apparently that title went "POOF!" and somehow AAA of California got a title issued for my car in CALIFORNIA!
Hooray! Even though I never once set foot into a California Secretary of State's office, somehow I've got a title there... and the best part is! Apparently it's been CANCELLED.
So now I have no title in either state and I can't get one in Michigan. Exasperated, I visited my Current Bank. The woman I've been dealing with for two days called in sick, and for some reason they only have ONE service representative to help me. A nice boy, very cute, but also clueless as to title law... so he tells me to call the Evil Bank and ask them what's going on. Apparently if a title was issued in California, it is in their best interest to find out how that happened, as Michigan is not a "title bearing state", so if the title is in California, my Lien Holder doesn't actually even own my car!
HAHA! Are you laughing yet? BECAUSE I AM! HOO BOY! HOW FUNNY! I'VE BEEN PAYING THIS EVIL BANK FOR THREE YEARS ON A CAR THAT NO ONE OWNS!
So I call the Evil Bank. I demand they go and actually look in my file for any sort of actual title, even though, last time I asked, they said they didn't have it. (Though I know they didn't really look in my actual file, they just said "we don't have it, we have a copy.")
So guess what?! They go and look in the actual file, and LOW AND MOTHER FUCKING BEHOLD, there is the actual title to my car... but... but... IT'S FROM CALIFORNIA.
What in the BLUE HOLY FUCK is going on?!?!?!?!? I re-registered my car in California, I did not RE-TITLE it, for fuck's sake.
The Evil Bank says it can't release the title for transfer to Michigan until the loan is paid off. My Current Bank says that it can't pay off my loan without a title. I'm ready to drive the car into the nearest river and change my name. I cannot believe that this truck is causing me so much grief. I DON'T EVEN DRIVE THE GODDAMNED THING!
I am currently awaiting the Evil Bank to return my phone call, to see if the Great Car Title Standoff Naught Four is going to come to blows when I tell them they better fax a goddamn copy of the title to my Bank before heads roll.
STABBY STAB!
First would be the Secretary of State's office. The whole office. I would have just stabbed the entire building. First they skip over my number. Then when they call the number after mine, I go up to the desk and say "You didn't call #27. I'm #27. I would like to be served first, please." Which elicited a number of disgusted looks.
Then, I'm told I can't get a title for my car. You got that? When last we left our heroine, her Evil Old Bank / Current Lien Holder would not give her the Michigan Title to her car. She claimed they had the original and they claimed they did not.
After searching my house over the entire weekend for a title (and finding none,) I decide to pay the money to have a new title issued.
Guess what! Ha ha! This is a funny story! Apparently I don't have a Michigan title! Funny! Because I have a receipt of application from the dealership IN MICHIGAN where I bought the car for a title to be issued IN MICHIGAN but apparently that title went "POOF!" and somehow AAA of California got a title issued for my car in CALIFORNIA!
Hooray! Even though I never once set foot into a California Secretary of State's office, somehow I've got a title there... and the best part is! Apparently it's been CANCELLED.
So now I have no title in either state and I can't get one in Michigan. Exasperated, I visited my Current Bank. The woman I've been dealing with for two days called in sick, and for some reason they only have ONE service representative to help me. A nice boy, very cute, but also clueless as to title law... so he tells me to call the Evil Bank and ask them what's going on. Apparently if a title was issued in California, it is in their best interest to find out how that happened, as Michigan is not a "title bearing state", so if the title is in California, my Lien Holder doesn't actually even own my car!
HAHA! Are you laughing yet? BECAUSE I AM! HOO BOY! HOW FUNNY! I'VE BEEN PAYING THIS EVIL BANK FOR THREE YEARS ON A CAR THAT NO ONE OWNS!
So I call the Evil Bank. I demand they go and actually look in my file for any sort of actual title, even though, last time I asked, they said they didn't have it. (Though I know they didn't really look in my actual file, they just said "we don't have it, we have a copy.")
So guess what?! They go and look in the actual file, and LOW AND MOTHER FUCKING BEHOLD, there is the actual title to my car... but... but... IT'S FROM CALIFORNIA.
What in the BLUE HOLY FUCK is going on?!?!?!?!? I re-registered my car in California, I did not RE-TITLE it, for fuck's sake.
The Evil Bank says it can't release the title for transfer to Michigan until the loan is paid off. My Current Bank says that it can't pay off my loan without a title. I'm ready to drive the car into the nearest river and change my name. I cannot believe that this truck is causing me so much grief. I DON'T EVEN DRIVE THE GODDAMNED THING!
I am currently awaiting the Evil Bank to return my phone call, to see if the Great Car Title Standoff Naught Four is going to come to blows when I tell them they better fax a goddamn copy of the title to my Bank before heads roll.
STABBY STAB!
