Trying to knock out the final items on my out-processing checklist.  Today’s objective was getting the car inspected in preparation for selling it.

So, it’s always a bit of pain in the ass to get over to Camp Kim from Yongsan Garrison via Camp Coiner.  But I navigated it. 

Got to the AAFES CarCare Center and I was the only customer.  Paid my 20 bucks and walked across the lot to the vehicle registration center to pick up the forms required to process the sale of my car (to a co-worker which was in fact easy).  I was a little surprised to see that the registration office will be closed both Thursday and Friday this week and next.  Which basically leaves me almost no margin for error in dealing with the USFK bureaucracy.  So, I figured I’d get things done today and not have to worry about it.

No dice.  My car failed inspection.  Seems the CV joint boot is torn.  So, with my rejection slip in hand I drove over to the other side of Yongsan to Kim’s Garage (AAFES does not do vehicle repairs).  I look around the shop and call “Yogio!” but the place seems deserted.  I note a Volvo station wagon out front with the engine running and the drive fast asleep at the wheel.  After spending a couple more minutes in a fruitless search for a mechanic I take another gander at the Volvo.  It has the USFK ID sticker in the windshield and the sleeping driver is a Korean–in a mechanics uniform!  Putting 2+2 together, I knock on the window and ask the guy if he fixes cars (as opposed to just sleeping in them, which I didn’t say but I hope was implied by my tone of voice).

Anyway, he does and will and I’m promised that my car will be ready at 1300.  We’ll see.  If things go as planned, I will take the new owner of the car to the insurance place where he will buy and I will cancel.  Then back to Camp Kim for the vehicle transaction. 

Wish me luck.