One day late

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What do you get if you mix a trip of 100 kilometres, a technical inspection of your car, meeting a friend, visiting a castle, buying cat food, having Spanish tapas, a trip of the same 100 km but in the other direction, lessons and falling asleep when you want to write a post? By blending these ingredients we get my Monday. I'm not even sure if I know how to retell it in such a way that it would be interesting for you too... but if I anticipate with a little teaser, that I was both laughing and crying at the same time after one incident, then hopefully you will stay with me and read these lines.

So let's get into this little story because maybe it can be somehow useful to you... Maybe you have to do a regular technical inspection of your car too so this post reminds you about that. Maybe. And then you go to make an appointment through the official website of the inspection station - and you get it from the first, you remember this post and feel relieved that you read it and didn't miss the checkup. Maybe. What happened with us is that we didn't read any posts about this topic but we anyway asked for an appointment in April. That action almost finished as a mission impossible, as for some unknown reason there were no free time slots in any city close to us for the next two/three months.

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We needed to do this vehicle checkup around these dates so the option was to find an official inspection station anywhere within a reasonable distance.

Is 100 km a reasonable distance to travel just for a periodic motor vehicle inspection? It was just a rhetorical question... we had to do it. We got the appointment for Monday morning, close to the town of Villena as it was the best (closest) choice.

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Waiting in line. Luckily, vehicles don't have feelings (or do they?) so the cars were not nervous like before an exam, as humans can feel. Our micar went through a long inspection... waiting in this spot and from time to time looking at how the technicians worked around it was not as boring as it would seem at first glance.

I know, almost 45 minutes could be spent in a different way but this is once a year now we have to do these vehicle inspections (starting from this year). When the car is new you don't have to do this at all for the first four years. Later, it is every second year the car needs to be checked and after it turns 10, the technical inspection is mandatory every year.

How it is in your country?

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The station where these checkups happen is located in the middle of nowhere. There were just olives and one tall, steel tree... It was a bit odd feeling, as I was standing there and hearing that sound, the transmission of electrical energy through the wires. 😳

Should I just leave that spot where I was standing under the wires?

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We left that place indeed, with micar who got a pass with all good scores from the technicians, and a pat on the tin back from me. It deserves to be washed more often, though. Our next destination was our friend's home in a nearby town, actually, we just picked her up and went to another little town. One that is called Sax, and which will be presented to Hive in one of my next posts. There we got a map, like in old good times and climbed to a castle.

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Two cool details form Sax - a musical sign that is familiar to everyone. A treble clef, surrounded with notes and musical instruments. It stood in the middle of one traffic roundabout.

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In this little town, I also discovered the secret life of one Hiver. Or a relative of it, I think.

Well, I saw it accidentally but this little owl was looking at us from afar... and it didn't even blink during all the time I spent in its presence. @elbuhito, no dijiste que tienes familiares en este municipio de España! 😂

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After saying goodbye to the little owl we went to buy a sack of cat food for our friend's cat. It was a good idea to put it in our trunk since the car she was driving broke down so she couldn't carry a 10-kilogram bag.

There was no way we would have forgotten to take it out of the trunk, because after having some tapas together we went to her house, rested a bit and started our journey. The 100 km of driving home was more challenging than the morning trip as we were a bit sleepy but all finished well.

We parked in the garage of our building... and got out of the car... and... REMEMBERED!!! 😱

The sack of salmon cat food was forgotten in our trunk!! 😂

That was the moment when I started laughing so hard that tears came to my eyes. The crying of laughter part came when I wrote a message to my friend, telling her the happy news... she didn't remember the cat food either! The reactions of both of us were priceless, and the conclusion she made was that her cat would hate her now. Oops.

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Now it is not a little owl that is looking at me, but a cat, sitting in our storage room!

P.S. I am one day late with this post, as yesterday evening I fell asleep when I started writing it. 😂

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Looks like you could use some {Bass!}

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It is a nice one 😇

{piano keys included?}

The treble clef is anyway just giving me a lot of trouble with time 😅

Mhm. Keys, mics, turntables, et cetera.

What's an owl doing reading about vehicle maintenance if he doesn't have one? 🦉

Well, Buhito doesn't lose hope of someday having one and probably having to do this maintenance haha

Owls are everywhere, Buhito has a clan that wanders around all countries and you just ran into one of them, I can't tell you if they are friendly or not, they are relatives of Buhito, the demoniac haha 😂 he has already been discovered 😇

Poor cat 😂😂

Buhito will have a car one day, I am sure. With the owl clan from all over the world, it will be easy to achieve a vehicle! 😁 But maybe the owl-car will have wings, right? 😂

I know, poor cat 🐈😂 . It will have to wait our next meeting to get this sack of salmon food.

So a lot had happened in a day ha, I can't relate with the car check up coz we don't own one, but if ever I have one, I'll do a yearly check up just to be sure that I won't get stuck in the middle of nowhere because of a broken car 😆. But i think even with that, something can happen, like a flat tires maybe, or out of gas, as in everything I mean 😆

If you owned a car, you could do the checkups, but the official one, which is mandatory is done at a certain time - it depends on the regulations of each country ;)

In Cuba they also inspect cars for 5 or 10 years and ours has already passed. It is a 74 Moscovich but it has not had any problems but both the car and the owner are scared. And there are appointmenttIn Cuba they also inspect cars for 5 or 10 years and ours has already passed. It is a 74 Moscovich but it has not had any problems but both the car and the owner are scared. And there are appointmentts and long lines. I think it is everywhere. Good thing you managed to inspect. Regards.s and long lines. I think it is everywhere. Good thing you managed to inspect. Regards.🤗🥰

Wow, in 5 or 10 years? That is a lot of time between the checks. Congratulations your Moskvich passed the inspection too ;))

Hahaha how terrible it must have been to open the trunk and see the food in there! I'm sure the cat won't stop demanding his food (they are very intense when they are hungry).

At least the long day was quite anecdotal. Thanks for sharing it on Daily Blog ❤️.

It was terrible and funny hahaha. And she mentioned while we were buying the food, as a joke, that it would be a situation if we forgot... and it happened indeed!! We could not believe it 😂🤦‍♀

Yes, the day was interesting and anecdotal, as many days are ;))
Thank you for the community, it is cool such a community exists for our daily happenings 😇

Use that bike and take it to your friend. 🤭
100 km no es nada.

Says the pro in biking 😁
The map estimates one would need 6 hours and 40 minutes, to take the cat food to my friend's house, by bike, pero hay un poco de desnivel del relieve... subir 1649 m y bajar 1199 m 😂

No, I'm not a pro. Hahaha... I don't think I'm fit for 100km. I'm teasing you. Linda noche.

Well, you are approaching that level at least ;)

My car needs inspection once a year. I am off of work tomorrow and was going to get that done then, but my car broke down this past weekend (minor, but I can't fix it myself) and my mechanic is on vacation ! The car won't pass inspection until it is fixed, so my plan to do it tomorrow is no longer a plan. Fortunately I still have a few weeks before it is due, so hopefully it will get repaired in time.

I don't usually call for an appointment, I just go early and most of the time there is nearly no one there and it goes pretty fast.

It sounds like you had quite the busy day!

I hope your car will be fixed soon and it will pass the inspection. And that the mechanic is enjoying his vacation hahaha, but comes home quickly to repair your car! :))

We do need to take an appointment, if we don't want to wait for a few hours in the line 😅

When I lived for a few years in a much bigger city, there were lines to wait in too, but even then, it was usually not so long. Maybe they had a lot more stations there, I don't really know.

My mechanic may not be open again for 9 more days 😮 ha ha, but I hope he is having a wonderful vacation too. I entertained the thought of getting a rental car, but then I thought how I normally only drive a couple days a week now since I work at home and I thought it would be kind of a waste to rent on that long to only use 2 or 3 days. Maybe I will get more done here if I can't leave on my days off 😂 ... or not. One of my sisters lives fairly near to me and has offered to be available should I need something and my Mom has said the same, so I am not fretting over it at all. I really don't want anyone else working on my car, so I am choosing to wait.

It is of course better if your sister can help you out until the car is fixed. A rental car is not as cheap as it used to be a few years ago (at least here).

So, the mechanic truly is enjoying his vacation 😂

I'm sure the cat didn't laugh at having her food taken 100 km away 🤣.

Just last week we went for our polakito's inspection, he passed despite his age and now we will have to do it in 10 years!!!!! I don't think it's the right thing to do, but that's the way things are around here.

On the other hand, the place of inspection is obligatorily one, we were 3 months waiting for the appointment, here there is no possibility to go to another one even if it is far...stupid bureaucratism. So 100 km is nothing compared to the impossibility imposed here.

And to tell you about the inspection place, I didn't take pictures...it wasn't worth it, ahhh and we were there from 8:00 am until 3:00 pm 😥. You guys did a lot of things in one day, we wasted almost a day on one thing 😆.

Hahaha, no, I also think the cat didn't laugh at that news lol

I read your comment to my husband, and we were surprised that it is just once in 10 years. In ten years so many things can break on a vehicle, and it can be dangerous actually. But a Polakito is a Polakito, and if yellow - it is perfect ;))

8:00 am until 3:00 pm

Mamma mia!! 😱

Este polakito nuestro es un caballo de querra!! 🤣

Ten years is too long and even longer for a car, but well...that's the way it is here. Luckily one tries to keep everything as good as possible whether there is an inspection or not, in the end it's our safety.

Y aún así, te cuento que en plena inspección se le partió la palanca de la emergencia!! 😱🤣.

te cuento que en plena inspección se le partió la palanca de la emergencia!! 😱

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En plena inspección?

Es como cuando mi marido se fue a vender nuestro coche antiguo. Sabes dónde no arrancó? Allí, en el sitio donde lo compraban 🤦‍♀ 😂

Espero que aún así hayan podido venderlo. Nosotros, por suerte, pasamos la inspección...el incidente pasó desapercibido!! La que no pasó desapercibida fue la tarifa del mecánico!! 🤣🤣

Oh poor cat was left without his dinner 😿. Glad you passed the MOT, here I think it's once a year, I couldn't tell you pq I don't have a car, here it's called Somatón.
I hope the cat has already been able to eat hehe.

I also hope that the cat ate something, but certainly not from this bag of food as it is still in my storage room 😂

Is 100 km a reasonable distance to travel just for a periodic motor vehicle inspection?

It is purposely made so that you have to drive the car 100 km to the service from your place of residence. if
if you successfully drived the car, car is correct, right? You can go right back 😃

In Serbia, a technical inspection is carried out every year (also for a new car).
I had my appointment for the annual technical inspection on Saturday morning 🚗🙂

It is purposely made

hahahaha, it could be indeed, as you explained 😂

well, 100 km is nothing. We made with this car 150K kilometres, we saw the moment it went from 149999 to 150000 when we were coming home from Madrid two months ago

I also like to catch those round numbers of kilometers on the instrument panel (dial) 🙂

on Saturday morning 🚗🙂

and it went well, I hope? 😇

The technical inspection lasted from 9:45 to 10:30 a.m.
Everything is OK.
Got sticker for next year car is ready to drive... 🙂

Great! - congratulations :D

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We also have to put now the new sticker - still didn't do it hahaha

Give the food to the cat...and thats all! jajjjj. Today I began my practice lessons to get my driving license....I drive a car for the very first time in my life...and it was really great time....

Good luck with your practice lessons, it is a bit challenging in the beginning, but once you get the feeling it is fun. Yes, a lot of focus is needed but fun when you dominate it already 😇

Aww poor cat, she must have been starving.
Hope you gave her extra for taking her food far away 😂, I'm sure that way she wouldn't hold any grudges 😂

Oh, I don't know what she will meow at us when seeing us the next time haha
The food still sits in our storage room 😂

Oh,poor cat. then that calls for extra 😂😂😂

Funny 🤣.
The cat would have chased you guys back supposing the food was left not just in the car at home but in the maintenance ground 🤣

Hahaha, it would 😂

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It seems to me that I want to feed stray cats, because it's very exciting to have to chase cats that don't know us,😭🤣of course they will scratch us but it's really a pleasure to be able to feed them hahaha but I want to do lots of other things to kill my time driving.

Stray cats would be grateful for the food, but sometimes they are scared to let themselves cuddle. The trust comes later

There is usually a vehicle inspection in my country but it takes so much time unlike yours which was 45mins
It could actually take over five hours here
They always make it seem stressful

That's a lot of time

Gosh, that is toooo far! Fortune for me is that I need to travel just 10 minutes and I am there. leave it for an hour and pop into town for a nice big "english breakfast" whilst I await the outcome.

I hope the English breakfast always finishes with good news - that the car passed the inspection :D

a big thumbs up to both!!