Testing times
A few weeks ago, I was having a quiet pint with Sheriff and he mentioned in passing that my NCT sticker thingy was nearly out of date.
Now sheriff couldn’t give a damn about such mundane matters but he warned me that the Law outside his patch might not be so broad minded. Leastwise, I waited for a letter informing me that my Car Test was imminent, but the fuckers never wrote. Another nice little scam – they hoped I wouldn’t notice so they could slap a large fine on me.
I booked a test anyhow and the appointed day is today.
The last time I did the NCT they tried to refuse to test the car on the basis that there were a few dog hairs on the passenger seat. Fur fuck’s sake! The tester was a foreigner and a lot shorter than me so I threatened him, and he backed down and agreed to do the test. Later he tried to fail me again on the grounds that I hadn’t removed the hub-caps and that he didn’t have the specialised tool for the job. I used my specialised tool [my boot] to remove the caps and once again he was forced to back down.
This NCT lark is just another of the money making scams the gubmint of the day has dreamt up. They sting you for fifty yoyos and then do their damnedest to fail you so they can sting you some more for a retest. According to Spanner, they will try to fail you if you have anything in the boot of the car. He also said that they will bitch if the seat belts on the back seat aren’t neatly clipped together. Apparently from next year they are going to put an age limit on tyres so that even if the tyres are in pristine condition, they will fail because they are old. Wankers.
I am heading off shortly. I am confident that the car will pass. There aren’t as many dog hairs. The seatbelts are all clipped neatly together. The boot however is not empty.
My baseball bat is in there.
I am quietly confident.
Heh!
Cars a bit like having a mortgage on a property. There’s no real reason to buy a property over 25-30 years as even if you pay all the mortgage most other debt is secured against it so really what people are doing is paying a huge amount of interest on top of capital, plus upkeep over the years, to enable your debtors to sell something worthwhile out from under you.
Cars actually slow you down. You might think you are going faster but you aren’t. By the time you’ve finished paying the bills you’ve no money to go anywhere in it.
So you can look wealthy on the surface but be poor as a church mouse in reality.
Save money- only drive stolen Garda cars. And throw it away when you want a new one. Don’t forget the little rotating blue light. The oul’ fella says he hasn’t seen a traffic jam in years.
They only tests emissions here. Once a year. $20. They don’t give a rat’s arse about lights, horns, tires etc.
Con – They are damned expensive to run, but living in the wilds, I don’t really have much choice. Apart from anything else, I frequently have to get to [or more often, away from] places in a hurry, Life’s a bitch!
TT – That is a lot more sensible. All you have to do is steer clear of beans, cabbage and onions for a few days beforehand?
Steer clear of the DUI fascist thugs.
you made me snicker..though i shouldn’t..i fully expect my letter anyday now for my own retesting..sighhh buggars
TT – DUI? The drink mob? More political correctness.
Cat – Baseball bats really do work, you know? Mine worked well today and I passed with flying colours. Try that trick yourself.
Over here you have a MOT every 2 years, well the law abiding do.
What you do is hand over €50 to the examiner, it only costs €40 but he either gives you €10 back and does the test OR he keeps the €50 and writes the certificate out there and then. Just don’t argue!!
Our car was examined a few months ago and passed with flying colours. But whoever examined the car is either blind or too stupid to notice the screw embedded in a front tire nor the chuck of rubber flapping in the wind on a rear tire. Maybe the examiner took sympathy with my wife as she was the only woman in amongst a crowd of men.
Drill holes in the baseball bat, it cuts down on the wind resistance when you swing it. This will also work with a hurly.
I have already drilled holes and filled them with lead. Fuck wind resistance – I go for the swing.
And hurleys are much too light.