1 day car insurance

I had to drive a friend to the airport. Problem. I haven't got a car. He has though and he was quite happy for me to use it. I do have a licence, I got it some time ago and don't drive much but it is valid.

I said 'am i insured?'

He said 'dunno.'

I said, 'OK check your policy and i will look into temporary insurance.'

'OK' he said, ' or how about 1 day insurance, I've heard that you can get that?'

'Leave it with me' I said, 'I'll look into it.'

'1 day insurance eh?', I thought. Thing is, he was going to be on holiday so I was thinking maybe 1 day insurance wouldn't be enough. 14 day insurance would be more like it. So I put a coffee on the stove and started to search.......

I was browsing away, looking at 1 day car insurance, temporary car insurance, 28 day car insurance - maybe he would extend his trip and leave me the car for another 2 weeks. What could I do with a set of wheels for 2 weeks? What couldn't I do?

Take a trip of my own.
Visit forgotten friends.
Surprise long lost family.
Buy lots of food at the supermarket.
Drive just for the sake of it.
Go to a car wash.

Oh with a brain as lacking in imagination as mine, the impossibilities are endless.

And then I smelt the coffee bubbling away, and I was back in the room. I took the pot off the hob, and poured myself a double huge espresso. What I didn't notice at that point was that the espresso had bubbled over sufficiently enough to put extinguish the flame, leaving me with a lovely bit of gas filling the room.

I sat back at the laptop and continued the serious search of 1 day car insurance. I found a site that boasted insurance facts. Being nerdy I clicked it. Here it is for you - 1 day car insurance facts - I was on fact 18, the one about having a messy car leads to increases in accidents, when I noticed the lovely coffe was now smelling a bit like gas. Forgetting the obvious - that maybe the gas on the hob was on, I panicked.

Do you remember the 'do you smell gas?' ads that ran in the 80's in the UK? There is a smell of gas and the someone goes to put on a lightswitch and the man shouts in a slow motion voice "NOoooooooo!!!"? It has been deeply embedded in my psyche. I suddenly became that man. I ran out of the house and called British Gas. Good job I left the front door open, because 30 minutes later the gas man, in his Gas Safe logoed van turned up and went into my house. 31 minutes later he came out of my house telling me 'you left the hob on mate (or was it the middle letters of mate but with 'tw' at the start? - I don't know).

Anyway went back in and promptly forgot all about 1 day insurance.

It was a week later that I ran the red light. The police man that got out of the car behind didn't care much for my 1 day insurance and gas story. Or may be he did, because if points mean prizes, then i'm due a big one.

So there you go, that's what I wanted to get off my chest.

Incindentally, quite a few companies do temporary car insurance - Aviva is just one of the many but there are plenty more out there. Don't be caught short like me. Nobody cares about the excuses.