oldbloke's mutterings

Well, I hope they're there. (That's one reason we never tax ours til the end of the month, we'd lose the tax disc unless it went straight into the junk-box aka glove compartment)

Our nasty rotten car had its MOT today and failed, so needs work doing. It's just a pain that the garage will do MOTs on a Saturday, but not repairs.

It's infuriating when you lose something important like that. I couldn't find my insurance certificate last time I taxed my car. I turned the house upside down and still couldn't find it, then, fortunately, discovered it still in the envelope they'd sent it in.

If you tell them that you can't find the previous MOT certificate, they might do it without, specially if they're the same people who did the previous one.

As a matter of interest, how will freaking right out manifest itself?

i.e. stand in the middle of the house and say,

"Spirits, can I please have my tax disc and MOT certificate back?"

It works quite often for me. (No I don't believe there actually are spirits nicking documents etc, I think it probably works by being a mental exercise which for some reason helps you spot or remember previously overlooked things).

You have my deepest sympathy btw as I have had to pay for a replacement insurance certificate and recently (when flogging the swedish brick) had a nasty moment when the purchaser pointed out that the MOT was not the one for the next 12 months but the one for the next 2. Found the MOT cert thank heavens (and the 2nd key which had also gone... somewhere). Late night headless chickening sux0rs.