Easy Come, Easy Go

Today's local adventure:  BB taking in her 2014 Subaru Outback for state inspection.  The first thing they did was find that the front tires have some areas that are close to the bare minimum of tread.  How, after only 15,000 miles?  Well, the guy said, it's probably out of alignment from the roads in the area.  They can rotate the tires and do an alignment and that should get it through today and awhile longer.  

(Won't bite on the 4 new tires?  Then pivot to the rotation and the alignment.)

By the end of the day, after all that plus emissions testing, and replacing the air filter in the cabin (I looked up this one - $14 for the filter at Walmart, and a 60-second video says replacement consists of getting to the filter by simply unhooking and removing the glove box, then unlatching the filter cover.  The dealer charged $71.  BB said that she could afford it, and it's true that the last two presidents have put extra cash in all our pockets.  But it bugged me that they'd ask that much.) the final bill was for just over $300.  Yowie.