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Getting the auto tag sticker is part of spring. Go to the emissions place, get the certificate, go to the tag office, get the sticker. Of course, nothing seems to work smoothly now.
The emissions place is a trailer, in the Plaza Fiesta parking lot. When you go there, there is a note: server down state wide. This has gone on a couple of weeks. When you call, nobody answers the phone. It is the same story at a couple of other neighborhood emission spots.
Google yielded a curious result. The oil change place does emissions. Since they do repairs, there was a bit of paranoia. Would they find a problem, that they could fix for an easy profit? This did not happen. The test was done quickly, with good results.
The next step was the county tag office. It is on Dresden Drive, with tight driveways and a tiny parking lot. When you ease around the building, there is a sign. No waiting is permitted inside. There was a group of people, waiting by the doorway. They were not socially distanced. The parking lot was not vehicularly distanced, with every space occupied. Maybe this is the year to do this by mail.
When you open the envelope with the tag notice, you see several flyers. One of these announced a tag kiosk, at the Kroger on Chamblee Dunwoody Road. You go to the machine, and tell them you want to renew your tag. The next step asks you which document you have, so you can scan it. The machine mentioned a drivers license, so PG decided to scan that. The machine did not accept it.
After several attempts with the DL, PG let another man use the kiosk. He got his sticker in less than a minute. PG took another shot at the machine, only this time, he scanned the tag notice. The kiosk said to insert your credit card, and the kiosk spit out a tag sticker. Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. The men are Confederate soldiers, from the War Between the States.