What a week I’m having!!!

I have never in my life had so much aggravation about getting an MOT.

Here’s the timeline:

1. Saturday. Rang and booked an MOT at Dad’s local garage.

2. Monday: Drove to garage (20 miles) went back to dad’s to wait outcome.

3. Garage phoned to say car had failed on 3 smallish counts but they couldn’t do the work on that day. Useless. Took car (now illegal) home (20 miles)

4. Drove to Yarmouth and got windscreen fixed (30 miles round trip)

5. Tuesday: Rang and booked an MOT at my local garage.

6. Wednesday: took the car there (5 miles)

7. Was told that they couldn’t do the work that day. Drove home without anything being done (5 miles)

8. Thursday. Rang Kwikfit in Yarmouth.  They don’t do MOTS but said the Lowestoft branch does.  Rang Lowestoft and booked car in for the work and MOT.

9. Friday. Drove to Lowestoft (30miles) got work done. They had no booking for the MOT!!!!!! (Erastes just about ready to burst into tears at this point) was told they could do it IN THE AFTERNOON. No bloody use to me unless I was going to sit there all day. Paid for work done and came home (30 miles) (the greasemonkey said "I don't know why you didn't get the work done at the Yarmouth branch."  I nearly shouted "BECAUSE THEY DON'T DO MOTS!!!!!!!!!"  ARGHGHGHGHGH!!!

10. Phoned Orignal garage (see 1) and booked for retest for Saturday.

11. We’ll see what happens!!!

Writer's Block: Birthday Shout-out

[Error: unknown template qotd]As those of you who follow this blog, I was entirely disenfranchised from the ... um... franchise after book four which was nonsensical, and although read five six and seven I saw it plummet into ghastliness.  Book Three (Prisoner of Azkaban) was the little nugget of the series.  Putting slash entirely to one side for a moment (because I hadn't heard of slash and fanfiction when I read the first 3 books) the saga built nicely from humble beginnings, and by book three had its most promise, with the introduction of Sirius as it became obviously a more layered and complicated world than the first two books had shown.

However it all went downhill from there.  Although PoA is the best of the series, I'd actually not even be able to say it was NOW the most satisfying - because now it's the one with the most potential lost.