Spring changes to Summer changes to Fall. I walk the "100 steps", the name of a public staircase in Weehawken that had 101 steps. I head into Town Hall. I attempt to get an idea on what I owe.

They have to look it up. While they look I try to figure it out myself. Abandoning a car. Towing a car. Emergency No Parking. Expired Resident Sticker. Plus court costs. Plus penalty. It's looking like several hundred bucks.

It's under a 100. All they charge me for is having an uninspected vehicle, something I didn't even think of, and the lowest of the possible fines. That plus penalty plus a Weehawken fine for having a fine. Seventy something bucks.

Then they argue because it seems someone forgot to put out a warrant on me for having an unpaid ticket that long. I think they forgot on purpose.

But now I have to go to DMV to clear the suspension. That I KNOW costs $100.