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Such a nice day, i think i will get up early go and insure/test/register my car and get some serious sun/pool time by the time the sun comes around

Go to Tasjeel @ Barsha to test car etc, car test a piece of cakeand passed , skips into office and take ticket, look at number then peer upto electronic counter. Sharp intake of breath and arhhhhhh nooooooooooo please, the queue was horendous, like 120 infront of me.

Chill, me thinks, ah i go to the insurance office to kill some waiting time and sort my insurance out. Open door to office and another sharp intake of breath, wait patiently for 10 mins nudging my way past the hoards. Great, within earshot of speaking to man behind counter. I politely ask about my car insurance.

In between speaking to me and 10 others who are now crushing me against the counter, taking multitaking to the limit, i finally get a great fully comp quote costing less than last year. Mr Multitasker say "come back nearer your time i very busynow ".

Ah Ah i think the queue wil have gone down now, lets see how many now? - wrong Well it had, by 2

Plan B.... Ah i will goto Jebel Ali Testing station, i bet it will be much quieter/quicker there. Go back to insurance office and ask Mr Multitasker (now dealing with 15 men shoving papers in his face and i ask, "is it the same broker/ins office in Jebel Ali, he says "yes you can do there and it is much quicker"

Sorted, off i drive to Jebel Ali heading towards Gate 5, getting stuck at Gates 2,3 and 4 on the way

Go into office with Test Cert in hand and BINGO...... just 6 people sat there waiting for typing

No one at insurance office Mr Happy goes to insurance counter

"I want to insure my car fully comp insurance please?"


wait for it....................


"sorry sir we dont do fully comp for your car here"

...."but your other office in Barsha said" .........

"can you ring them and organise via them and i pay you and you give me certificate?"

"yes sir, i ring them sir and then they can fax form here"

yessssssssssssssssss, result

puts phone down,

... "sir, i cannot do this as the police require the Original and wont accept faxes, you have to goto Barsha Office and do there"




2 hours later Mr Grumpy and Mr Stressed arrives back at Barsha having a/ getting lost in Jebel Ali and

b/ having his car searched

Barsha
Go straight to insurance office and walks upto counter, Mr Multitasker dealing with only 1 customer.... Mr Really Pissed Off says to him

"they dont do fully comp at Jebel Ali"


What happens/ is said next????









"

Who are Mr Grumpy and Mr Stressed? Your multiple personalities?

so i was completely lost reading this.... mr. grumpy or mr. stressed should explaiin it to me in person sometimes after tomorrow

typical of anything in dubai.
Nice story tho!!!

That's why I lease!

(To the sound of a shutter being pulled down) "Sorry, this office closed now...Bukra Inshallah!"



Knight

come on DK - you should know it has to be more stupid than that, you know dubai well mate.

bushra21 wrote:so i was completely lost reading this.... mr. grumpy or mr. stressed should explaiin it to me in person sometimes after tomorrow

twas me Bushy, i was well pissed off and totally fed up

arniegang wrote:come on DK - you should know it has to be more stupid than that, you know dubai well mate.

I am certain some officious twat told you to go back to the Jebel Ali branch or that they can't do comp insurance in Barsha either... The blind lead the blind in this town!



Knight

All of u who drive around freely in dubai should go through all this tasty . there's gotta be a tradeoff somewhere. Till i get my license

Why are you rich folks running around renewing your own car reg? I pay a company called Midland Cars to come and pick up my car, do the testing, reg and insurance, and return it in a few hours to wherever I want. All for 200 bucks. And I used them even when I was making four-figures a month. Hell, they even saved my money by getting me low insurance rates from a non-Tasjeel-stall company.

the reply was as follows


" we only do fully comp ins at this office, you have third party because its cheaper, why you want fully comp"

Let me guess. The guy at the counter wobbling his head while he was telling you this?

arniegang wrote:the reply was as follows


" we only do fully comp ins at this office, you have third party because its cheaper, why you want fully comp"

I assume your reply was something like:

"I want fully comp to protect me when I hit officious plonkers...like you!"



Knight

actaully DK i was speechless. Its like going into a car show room with a wad of cash asking to buy the Lambo on display and the salesman saying " you dont wannnnnna do that, you want a cheaper car like a Yaris".

i think i lost like 3 points in my iq trying to understand that