I love the MVC on Route 130 in Dayton, NJ, the one that serves South Brunswick. Every time I go there, everyone is so nice and I never have a problem. Whenever I choose the one closer to home, the one in the Trenton area, it’s like running a gauntlet, with the employees lining up with chains and broken bottles, ready to challenge me to produce six points of identification.

For those of you with question marks over your heads, in New Jersey the MVC is the same as everyone else’s DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles). It stands for Motor Vehicle Commission. We’ve got to be different, because, look at us, we’re New Jersey. We won’t even pump our own gas.

To add to my enjoyment, every time I go to South Brunswick, I am issued a number preceded by the letter K. Classical music people inevitably associate that with a Köchel number. The Köchel catalogue is a system that was devised in the 19th century by Ludwig von Köchel to organize what he thought were the complete works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart into chronological order. So K = Köchel = Mozart in the minds of most classical music folks. Unless they’re deranged Scarlatti people, in which case they think of it as a Kirkpatrick listing.

Yesterday I was rewarded with K085 – Mozart’s Miserere in A minor. I must say, a miserere is uncannily appropriate for a visit to the average MVC.

To make yesterday’s visit even more delightful, I discovered a second Köchel number on my new license plate. I’ll refrain from posting what that is, exactly, since I already share too much of myself on social media, and I don’t want any pranksters reporting my license plate for random crimes I didn’t commit (or any I did commit, for that matter). Suffice it to say, the number stands for another dreary sacred work. That’s me all over.

So, not as good as last time, maybe, when I got K231, which translates into one of Mozart’s most scatological canons, “Leck mich im Arsch” (literally, “Lick Me in the ***”). You can read about that visit here:

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BONUS FOR SCARLATTI-PHILES: I must say you have the advantage this time, as here’s the Keyboard Sonata in F major, K (Kirkpatrick listing) 85: