My car tax expired at the end of January but I couldn't find my MOT certificate to get it renewed. Fortunately you can get a copy if you ring the place it was done, so I rang Chris, the previous owner, and asked him the name of the garage. Gildersome Motors in Leeds, he said. So I rang directory enquiries and was given a number, which I rang, but they told me they only do commercial cars, so it couldn't have been done there. So I rang Chris again, and he said there's a Gildersome Motors, and then there's a Gildersome Commercial Motors, and I'd obviously got the latter. So I rang directory enquiries again and asked for Gildersome Motors in Leeds. "There's not a Gildersome Motors," they said. "There's a Gildersome Cars." That will do, I said, so they gave me the number, and I rang Gildersome Cars. "Are you Gildersome Motors?" I asked. "No, we're Gildersome Cars," said Mr Gildersome Cars. "But I can give you the number of Gildersome Motors." So he gave me the number, and I wrote it down, and said thank you very much, and rang the number he'd given me. It didn't exist.

So today I went to get the MOT done again, even though it was done just six months ago. And it failed. So now I've got to take it to a garage to get it fixed before I can take it to be MOTed again. Meanwhile, if I have an accident, my car tax ran out over a week ago so it's doubtful that my insurance would cover it.

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