MOT Madness (Blog 218)

Like on Saturday when I went to a comedy club in London, I left to get my MOT done with high spirits. What could go wrong? It would be a simple checkup and it would be great value for money, too. Also, at the same time I had a choice of THREE charity shops to go to. It would soon be time for some very clever CD spending and maybe even some profound musical inspiration. But no cracked cases, please. It’s not the same. Things were only getting brighter - After dropping my car off for examination, I spotted a Subway nearby and just had to get myself a meatball marinara. I noticed some hash browns were on sale too, and I’m not sure if I’d ever had any before, so I had to check them out. Turns out they were delicious! What a great start to the day! I was so happy!

Time to get my albums, then! Sadly like the last time I attempted music shopping in the area, not one, not two but all three establishments were closed. Ah. Maybe they’re having money issues because of the virus, or maybe it’s something a little more complex. I think Subway had the same problems - as there were so many of the same fooderies near to each other, they were rivalled with themselves rather than other companies, such as McDonald’s and suffered because of that. I’m not a businessman, but even I know that having three shops on the same street that only sell bread, pizza or pretty much any item you can think of for example, is pointless if not dumb, let’s be frank.

When I walked back to the MOT centre to do a bit of hanging (or rather sitting) around, I saw tons of 5 star reviews the company was displaying. Interestingly you never see 1 star ones, do you? As in ‘The staff threw coffee in my face and hit my car with a mallet’. Of course it’s easy to take such a review as a joke, which is why it is vital to write more of the same kinds of comments on the walls from ‘other people’, e.g. ‘The staff gave me the finger, threw gravel in my eyes and crashed my car into a wall.’ After a dozen or so of those, you need to write an apology from ‘the boss of the company.’ For example, ‘We are truly sorry for all the abuse my team has been responsible for. They will never assault their customers again. I PROMISE.’ Could be a good prank, that’s all I’m saying.

Turns out I’ll have to pay nearly £300 for the repairs next Tuesday! Damn speed bumps ruining my suspension. Damn me pulling the handbrake too tightly to REALLY make sure it was on. Now it needs to be readjusted. I wasn’t forced to pay for it, but I also broke my door handle for checking that a little too intensely, as well. :( On the plus side, if I get my car repaired on the day just mentioned at 10 AM and it takes two hours to get sorted out, that gives me plenty of time to work out at the gym that’s a five minute walk away, and I could easily get home in time for the online London Comedy Writers meeting. So everything should fall into place. Like Tetris. That’s all I have to say, really. At least I got a blog done and I didn’t get lost (ok I took a wrong turn, just the once), but £291.05?? Holy moly…