Tag, Title and Tax

As some of you who read this are probably aware, Angela and I bought a minivan last month.  That means, of course, the my transition from coolness (weak as it was) to “boring” old man is now complete, and I don’t mind it a bit.  I love driving that thing.

At any rate, I went to the tag agency finally to transfer the title into our name, which means, of course, we have to pay excise tax on the vehicle.  I put it off as long as I could, because I knew they were really going to let us have it.  That is what governments do, of course:  tax and stifle.  Much to my chagrin, I was not disappointed.  The hammer dropped to the tune of $749.50.  When writing the check, in the memo field I almost put “Excess Tax” (instead of “Excise Tax”), but, in the end, I sucked it up and said nothing like a boring old man. 😉