A dramatic re-enactment of my half of two conversations yesterday:
I. Registries
"Hi, I’m from Alberta and I need to get a Manitoba Driver License.”
“Sure I will keep the airbrakes. If it doesn’t cost extra, I guess.”
“I have to renew every year? Yeah, I heard that. In Alberta it’s like every 5 years or something. Guess that makes it more expensive here.”
“I have to register my vehicle every year too, right? For $99? Whoa. This is adding up.”
“Nope, I’m not going to smile for my photo.”
(“Man, I have to renew this every year? It just looks like a piece of laminated cardboard! Totally a rip-off.”)
II. Insurance
“Hello, I need to get Manitoba insurance please.”
“Ok, I can get them to fax that stuff.”
“’96 GMC Sonoma. Regular cab, 2-wheel drive.”
“And I’m a 24-year…oh, you don’t need to know that? You don’t care if I’m a male?”
“No, I live right across the street. Don’t drive to work.”
“Oh, I have to get my vehicle saftied too, hey? Some more money down the drain.”
“I was over at the Registries, looks like this could be costly. How much for the insurance?”
“What? For 6 months?”
“For a YEAR?”
“…”
Right. So with all the extra charges I have to pay, including a safety inspection and registering my vehicle and renewing my license each year, I can get insurance with the same coverage and a LOWER deductible ($200) for approximately…55.5% of what I paid in Alberta. With the same deductible, it will be 50% of the cost.
Strange. It’s government insurance. I guess communism DOES work sometimes.
Well, works for car insurance anyway.
Then again, I worked at a rehab clinic for people who had been in collisions. I probably should have known all along that insurance is a scam. One of those scams that you definitely should buy into.
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Ya for scams!
Unless it's pulled on you. Like that one time, that hooker that was named Butch. I shoulda known better. Oh well, hindsight is 20-20 I guess.
Communism totally works. The USSR is doing just fine, they just have to get past this little 15 year bump in the road. And Cuba! Go Castro!
And the gulags, I hear they work wonders on people's motivation to follow the rules.
Just pretend I said "socialism" instead of "communism." It's not like I have to stand in line for my non-fitting government-issued shoes here. Oh wait, I do. Maybe it IS communism.
I love the commie feds. I get a cheque for them every two weeks. Last week I got two, and apparently I'm owed one more (a fat guy came up to me today and said "Kyle, don't worry about the extra cheque, it's being approved and will come to you shortly"). SWEET.
Go to my blog. I wrote about shuswaps.
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