auto insurance nazis

omg, kill me now. getting car insurance in Canada is a pain in the * especially for newcomers. Good thing we at least have driving experience in the USA, which is somewhat transferable. I feel sorry for the rest of humanity coming here from other civilized places like Europe or Japan. Their driving history is of zero significance to these auto insurance nazis, they might as well have been a teenage driver.

our poor car is on foreign soil and it doesn't know when it's going to get recognized as a hardworking local vehicle. so we're in this vicious cycle of paperwork and process (hmm, maybe i should help them with their workflow!)... to not get a ticket, you need to get the car registered for local plates. to get local plates, you need local insurance. to get local insurance, you need to show them your family inheritance and birth certificate of first-born offspring. we stump the system coz our situation is non-standard. so their forms can't handle our info and even addresses are a pain (coz we had 2!)... so everyone spins in a frenzy and no one goes anywhere. i'm exhausted.

speaking of cars, it's been a hoot driving around town, 2 chinese people blasting korean pop music with TN plates. the juxtaposition stumps many a passer-by. i've lost count of how many times people walk by and do a double-take: is this a legal car? why doesn't it have front plates? (walks to back) what's this, TN plates? these people are really lost! do they even speak english down there?! (squints into car), who ARE these people?

good thing about it - we can be marauding drivers or slow movers gawking at scenery... the cars behind just assume we don't know what the hell we're doing coz we're from the South. which is true in some respects!