How to Register Your Car - Act III

We spent some time pondering how to register the car until Mami came up with a solution so simple and devious that I was afraid it actually might work.

Since Friday was the last day to register the car, why not go then, when it would be busy, and try again.  But this time, if asked, just say that grandpa was old, not dead. 

And it worked.  No questions were asked.  Nothing more had to be paid. 

Now all we have to do is register the car in Carlos's name to avoid any problems next year...