Smogging

Every summer we pay our car registration and every other summer we have to have a smog check.  As H mentioned, it's not the most fun thing to do, but we are glad that the state of California does it so that our air is not so horrendous as it was when we moved here 25 years ago.

Anyway, this time I used yelp to find out a good "test only" station, and turns out that the car wash place on Foothill in Upland that my mom likes, has a test only station behind it (you really have to know it's there and follow the tiny signs pointing the way behind the car wash).  If you go to their site, you can get a coupon for a free car wash with a smog test, so $40 and 1 hour later (it was a particularly busy day since the state has been holding on to registration renewals until the budget passed, so the guy said it would be busy for a month or so) we had an all-clear on the car and a clean one, to boot!  (Maybe next time we'll head next door to EZ Take-Out Burger and get a 99-cent breakfast burrito...)