I cannot believe this. Just can’t make this stuff up. I have an office to clean out, as my lease is up at the end of June-4 days from now. I’ve been wondering how to get my larger things out of the office. I used to have a station wagon and it hauled all things into this office. Well, I sold the car a month ago and now have this Geo Metro sedan–which is very limited in space. A part of me was sort of wishing I had that wagon again, or at least for a few days to move this stuff. But, I had 4 days to figure out what I was going to do to get these things out of the office and back home. I thought about hiring someone with a truck, selling, borrowing a truck. But I just hadn’t made a decision yet on what to do.
So what happened today was that I got in the mail a notice that my old station wagon had been towed to a tow yard. Since I was the legal and registered owner (the buyer did not change it over to his name), I was responsible for this vehicle. I did some checking to see if it had broken down and was abandoned, but learned the car was fine, but the buyer was in jail for driving with a suspended license. The price to get this car out of hock today was over $400, increasing $45/day storage fee.
Since I was/am the legal owner, and the tow yard would ONLY allow me to take the car–not the other guy, I went and paid them the $400 tonight and got my wagon back!!!
It has his stuff in the car, which I need to put somewhere until he gets out of jail. Then I’ll haul what I have to haul out of my office. I don’t need to rent a truck! If the buyer still wants the car after jail, I’ll sell it back to him for what I paid for it today plus more for my trouble. I’ll also make him go to the DMV and change it over to his name BEFORE he gets the car again.
OMG, can you believe this? I can’t make this stuff up. What a weird, funny sense of humor the universe has!!! Whether I keep the car just until I get things hauled, or keep it as a second rig for future hauling is yet to be determined. Blows my mind!