Fulanito de Tal
9th February 2011, 06:09
Privilege #23031 states that those with enough financial resources have the capability of owning a residence. This residence can be used to store vehicles that are not currently being used for transportation. The registration or insurance on these vehicles do not need to be current in the state of Florida if such is the case. However, if you live in an apartment complex, the complex hires a towing company to tow vehicles that are not registered as can be seen on the tag. Therefore, if you do not have access an area of private property on which you can store your car and live in an apartment complex in Florida, you may have your car towed.
Such was the case this afternoon. I recently bought another vehicle and was in the process of selling my old vehicle. I did not want to renew the registration on the old vehicle because I did not want to spend the $300+ on registration and tag plus whatever insurance would be until I sell the vehicle in about a month or so. Today my truck was towed because my apartment complex authorizes a towing company to tow unregistered vehicles. I had to drop everything to recover my vehicle. If I did not get it back today, I would not have been able for another 2 days which would have about doubled my towing and storage fees.
The story
My neighbor who has a view of the parking lot told me that my truck was just towed (~2:45pm). I got in contact with the towing company and they said that they cannot return it until I show them proper registration. They close at 5pm. So, I had just over 2 hours to get registration, a new tag, and get to the tow company across town. Plus, I had a class to get to at 6pm that I could not miss. I dropped all of my ever increasing homework to get this done. I stressed the hell out for 2 hours, spent $327 on registration and tag, around $90 on insurance, 50 miles worth of gas, $20 in tolls, and $125 to get my truck back. Finally, I barely made it to class wearing a dirty ass shirt of a cartoon show.
Where the privilege materializes. Those with the comfort of their own home would not have had this problem because the towing company cannot trespass on their property. Further, they probably have enough money to not have to worry about leaving a car unregistered or uninsured. Even further, they don't have to worry about changing cars every time it seems like the beater they drive is about to fall apart. Even more further, they don't have to drop everything in a second to stress out about getting a POS back. Nope. They get to stay home an work on excelling in their profession, passing people without their privilege like me, to show everyone that the American Dream exists. Meanwhile, I am looking like a bag of ass showing up to class unprepared and looking like someone just kicked my dog.
Such was the case this afternoon. I recently bought another vehicle and was in the process of selling my old vehicle. I did not want to renew the registration on the old vehicle because I did not want to spend the $300+ on registration and tag plus whatever insurance would be until I sell the vehicle in about a month or so. Today my truck was towed because my apartment complex authorizes a towing company to tow unregistered vehicles. I had to drop everything to recover my vehicle. If I did not get it back today, I would not have been able for another 2 days which would have about doubled my towing and storage fees.
The story
My neighbor who has a view of the parking lot told me that my truck was just towed (~2:45pm). I got in contact with the towing company and they said that they cannot return it until I show them proper registration. They close at 5pm. So, I had just over 2 hours to get registration, a new tag, and get to the tow company across town. Plus, I had a class to get to at 6pm that I could not miss. I dropped all of my ever increasing homework to get this done. I stressed the hell out for 2 hours, spent $327 on registration and tag, around $90 on insurance, 50 miles worth of gas, $20 in tolls, and $125 to get my truck back. Finally, I barely made it to class wearing a dirty ass shirt of a cartoon show.
Where the privilege materializes. Those with the comfort of their own home would not have had this problem because the towing company cannot trespass on their property. Further, they probably have enough money to not have to worry about leaving a car unregistered or uninsured. Even further, they don't have to worry about changing cars every time it seems like the beater they drive is about to fall apart. Even more further, they don't have to drop everything in a second to stress out about getting a POS back. Nope. They get to stay home an work on excelling in their profession, passing people without their privilege like me, to show everyone that the American Dream exists. Meanwhile, I am looking like a bag of ass showing up to class unprepared and looking like someone just kicked my dog.