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nineveh_uk ([personal profile] nineveh_uk) wrote2010-03-02 09:07 pm

Schadenfreude

I'm often uneasy with the concept of name and shame, but in this particular case I really couldn't be. After all, there was technically no naming. Just an absolutely enormous car, a monstrous black and shining four-wheel drive thing with tinted windows, plastered with chrome, half motor vehicle, half whale, the sort of thing that vampire presidents would drive.

Plastered over the driver's window (kerbside) was a big yellow notice: UNTAXED VEHICLE. Affixed to the windscreen, a second, smaller yellow notice: notice of refuse removal.

My heart bled. I then made a note that my car tax is due at the end of this month.

[identity profile] antisoppist.livejournal.com 2010-03-03 09:58 am (UTC)(link)
I did the same so that the MOT and annual service (which have just cost £600 or so) are due 6 months apart from the car tax. The only problem then is remembering where you put the MOT certificate 6 months earlier.

[identity profile] nineveh-uk.livejournal.com 2010-03-03 12:44 pm (UTC)(link)
*recovers from panic* It's OK, I know it's in the file.