Hire me a motor (From Asian Image)

Hire me a motor

4:54pm Saturday 4th November 2006

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If you are having a wedding this year you need a motor. And it's not any old motor it has to be a BMW or a Mercedes otherwise people might talk.

Now getting that motor is a real problem.

The hire companies after years of Eid misdemeanours have got wise. Booking a car is easy, driving that car away, almost impossible. As soon as the Hire Company hears that you are a Mr Hussain, a Mr Nawaz or a Mr Patel it's time to get tough.

You need a clean driving license, your passport, a birth certificate, a telephone bill, in fact two different bills and a credit card. And by the way you have to over 25 years old, have had a job for three years and be the perfect human being.

So you hurriedly gather all the details and realise you have three points on your license. Time to ring your mates.

Friend number 1 has 6 points, friend number 2 has 12 points, friend number 3 can't find his license, friend number 4 had his license confiscated by the police, friend number 5 has a clean license but s*** credit and so on.

Having found a gullible relation you set off and arrive at the desk confident that you have brought everything.

The lady at the desk seems suspicious for some reason. Is it me?, the sweat on my friend's brow? or the fact that there's ten of us peering over the desk at her?

The forms are being filled out, the credit card is OK and the license held out.

You picture yourself in the Mercedes SLK, oh Mama I'm gonna be the coolest kid in town behind that baby.

Everything is going smoothly until she asks "So, who will be driving the car?" and we all raise our hands.

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