SATIRE (obviously!)
Jane* was driving home from the pub again like she did most evenings. The police saw she’d left a pub and decided to pull her over to see if she’d been drinking, alcohol.
To their delight they discovered not only was she completely sober, but her 4 year old BMW had No Insurance, No Tax, No MOT and 1 rear brake light.
She thought they were drunk, but it turns out that her husband kept meaning to sort that stuff out … but was too busy writing letters of complaint about the ink on his printer running out when he’d hardly used it.
If you have trusted your spouse to MOT, Tax and Insure your car for you, there’s a very slim chance that they’ve completely forgotten, can’t be bothered, or asked their mum to do it – who also forgot.
It’s reasonably forgivable in today’s world of limited free time, corporate stupidity and masses of dull and boring paperwork to deal with.
But the consequences are diabolical and unsympathetic.
Jane experienced a morning in court, 6 points on her license, increased insurance premiums (although she’s made nominal savings prior), prosecution (which makes getting a UK passport a bit more tricky) and a GBH charge following a ‘discussion’ with her husband.
Join GoProdMe and get Alarming notifications if your car insurance has expired BEFORE you drive to the pub.
GoProdMe membership enables you see see when your Car Insurance, MOT & Expires for all vehicles and drivers within your household – if you want.
You can also check up on (help out) elderly relatives too.
Don’t risk persecution prosecution because of the mundane.
* Not her real name. Her real name was Jenny Hemmings, then Jenny Mercer after she got married but we changed her name for this article to help protect her identity.