I didn't go into work today, couldn't be bothered.

I was just looking for the rego papers for my other bike (and had just found them) when my mate turned up on it.

He didn't know I was home, had come around to get the address, so he could find out what I needed to do to allow him to register the bike on my behalf.

We bummed around there for a bit, I got everything together, and then we took off about 12.30pm for the RTA to start the long and boring process of getting the bike reregistered.

We then took off, I knew I would need a blue slip, so went over to the truck place where I got my bike blue slipped early this year, just after it went out of rego, but then never bothered to register it.

I had taken the old blue slip, showed the guy, he looked at the odo readings, and seen it had done about 30 kms since the last blue slip, so didn't really bother to look at the bike.

He filled out a new blue slip, copied off the old one, signed it, we paid, and were away.

We went around the corner to the bike place where I'd got my bike serviced recently, to find out if the seals had come in. Yeah, they were in, so I booked in for next Tuesday to get my bike serviced again.

We went into the RTA, got a number, and waited for a long long time.

We got served, the lady in there was nice for once.

I explained the situation, bike hasn't been registered for nearly a year, needs everything doing, but I've got the blue slip.

She told me what I needed to do, get a green slip, take the plate off, and come back, get a new registration started, and a new number plate.

We went across the road to the NRMA to get the green slip, that was relatively painless, and was only about $12 more than with QBE.

We came back across the road, and took the number plate off the bike.

Went back in to the RTA again, with hopefully everything I need. I filled out more forms, new rego plate form etc, and we waited for a long long time.

We finally got served, I gave in all the stuff, blue slip, green slip, new rego form, new rego plate form, rego plate.

While entering the details off the blue slip, the woman had a problem.

Apparently the guy at the truck place had put a 5 in the VIN instead of an S (or vice versa, what difference does it make?) anyway, it wouldn't accept that, and they wouldn't just put the correct thing in there, and they can't accept a modified form.

A stood there fuming for a couple of minutes, trying to get them to just enter it, but they wouldn't. At this point they started talking about coming back to do it tomorrow, which is not a possibility, I've got to go back to work.

We had to go back and get another blue slip. We'd taken the plate off the other bike, and handed it in, I had bugger all chance of getting them to give it back (this is the RTA), so I doubled my mate over to the truck place.

I told the guy what was going on, and he filled out a new form, he'd done his first one by copying the one I had from about March, and it had the wrong thing on it too (which he hadn't done, some other guy there had done it).

He filled in the new blue slip, and rego form, signed it, and we went back across to the RTA again. That wasted an hour.

I waited for a long long time again, filled out more forms, and we finally got served.

While the woman was processing it, she asked if the bike had ever been registered in QLD, I bit my toungue, and just said no. I would have loved to reply "No, but if it was, I would have been done 4 hours ago, and it would have been cheaper and easier!".

This time it was all fine. I paid for the rego, and the number plate, and we were all done.

We got out of there about 4.30pm. Nearly 4 hours to get the bike registered.

We went to McDonalds, had some lunch, and then went around to another mates place, where my mate was staying.

I sat round there for an hour or so, and then took off, got some food for dinner at the supermarket, and went home.