Unexpected Upgrade to Our Van

The registration on our van was due last Friday.

I went through all the standard procedure- green slip, pink slip and then went to pay the required arm and leg at the RTA web-site. It tells me my vehicle isn't eligible to pay on-line. Thinking there was just a delay in the processing of the green slip payment I left it until this morning.

Same result.

I rang the green slip insurer and they told me that the payment had gone through, so any problem was with the RTA side.

"Oh great" I thought to myself. I normally try to avoid the RTA office this time of the year as there is always a long wait from farmers wanting to register their 50 year old trucks for three months to get them through harvest. An unexpected side benefit of the drought is that there was no queue at the RTA.

I explained what had happened to the lady at the counter (my difficulty registering ion-line I mean, not the drought affecting their customers).

She asked me some interesting questions:

How many seats does it have? 8 the same as it has for the last 17 years. She looked at me as if to say, "Are you sure?"

What kind of fuel does it use? Unleaded.

Do you mean unleaded petrol? Is there any other fuel called unleaded?

So, it doesn't run on hydrogen then? No.

It appears that the RTA had decided our battered old people mover really runs on hydrogen.

They corrected the error so next year I should be able to avoid the RTA office again... unless i follow through on my plan to install a nuclear reactor :)

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