{"id":26253,"date":"2019-03-13T08:00:40","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T12:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=26253"},"modified":"2019-05-22T08:52:54","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T12:52:54","slug":"standing-in-line-at-the-bmv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/13\/standing-in-line-at-the-bmv\/","title":{"rendered":"STANDING IN LINE AT THE BMV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Do I <\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">get new <\/span><\/span>plates or keep my 2003 Ohio bicentennial plates?<\/p>\n<p>Whichever is easiest.<\/p>\n<p>Entering the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, I had Harvey Pekar-level anxiety. But I lucked out; I was a plate transfer, not a new driver&#8217;s license, so I got to skip to the head of the line.<\/p>\n<p>I had bought a Subaru Legacy and sold my Ford Fusion. Both cars are red, so nobody knows I have a new car. A disappointment. I wanted a blue car, but the Subaru Legacy doesn&#8217;t come in blue. I refuse to drive gray, silver, black or white. I miss the purple on the Plymouth Duster.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>I was<\/strong><\/span> in and out of the BMV in 15 minutes. Can you beat that? I\u00a0accidentally left one of my plates on the counter and a clerk ran out, yelled &#8220;sir&#8221; at me, and handed me the plate. I said to her, &#8220;At least I got you outside! Thanks.&#8221;\u00a0It was 20 degrees and snowing. She said, &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to be outside.&#8221; The BMV. I miss Harvey Pekar. <\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_26254\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26254\" class=\"wp-image-26254 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/klezmer-plate-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"klezmer plate\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/klezmer-plate-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/klezmer-plate.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-26254\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Not my plate, btw.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do I get new plates or keep my 2003 Ohio bicentennial plates? Whichever is easiest. Entering the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, I had Harvey Pekar-level anxiety. But I lucked out; I was a plate transfer, not a new driver&#8217;s license, so I got to skip to the head of the line. I had bought a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cleveland-full","category-pekar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26253"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26279,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26253\/revisions\/26279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}