Hey! Do you want to do something totally not fun at all.

Go stand in line at a Service Ontario office for two hours to renew your plates, and exchange those plates for new ones where the numbers and letters have not come off the metal. Surrounded by hot sweaty people in a humid office building hallway. Some masked (yeah!) And some not (boo!).

Watching crowds of people wander in off the street, take one look at the lineup outside of the office and then reverse course. There were, what I thought, nine people ahead of me, not great, but not awful. That was until I saw into the actual room itself to see fifteen or so clumps of people waiting patiently for their turn at the counter. Intermingled with countless car dealership folks floating in and out in a near constant stream. Blargh. Not a fun Monday afternoon treat. But altogether not that bad. Seventy five minutes of standing and waiting, followed by a very quick ten minutes of action, and then going about putting the plates back on and getting my paperwork sorted into the appropriate spot. Near painless. But one vehicle is done until 2024, so go team!