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[Sir Tigger KC]

.... but I've just realised that I need the online code so the hire company can check my licence details. 

Trouble is, to get the code you need your National Insurance number, which I don't have with me here in the States and have no way of finding it out.    I don't have the old counterpart either.....

'dangle berries'!!     I'll have a phone round the hire companies in the morning to see what the requirements are.  Any helpful suggestions?   

My plan was a little road trip from here in Houston down to New Orleans for a couple of days, but that might well be scuppered by the bloody DVLA! 

opps it off to the pub! 

[05omegav6]

Buy the first Catera you see for sale and get it added to your mates insurance... Job jobbed

Like this one...
http://m.autoshopper.com/vehicledetails.asp?id=16857789

[RossPhim]

Why not get yourself a US license?   

When I was in Houston back in 2000, one of the young lads asked me to give him a lift to the test place.
Whilst there I realised that for something like $25 I could do both the computer and driven test at the same time.

The only reason I did it was because I was fed up taking the passport for age checking at every bar/restaurant we went to.

Things may have changed since I did it all but you never know.

They also used to do a thing where you handed in your UK license and automatically gave you a US one, but I didn’t fancy temporarily losing my UK one.

[biggriffin]

Have you flounced to America,or just annoying somebody else 

[Sir Tigger KC]

All is not lost! 

After a few pints of a noxious brew called 'Sierra Nevada' while watching an excellent RnB band, I had a lightbulb moment and found my NI number written in the back of my little black book. 

So that number that I've only ever needed when starting a new job has new importance, and not having it with me could have ruined a nice little side trip.    Make sure you have it handy folks especially when abroad as you never no when you might need a car.

Thanks for the suggestions!

Al:  I want to drive a car not work on a car while I'm still here. 
Ross: Getting Texas licence might have worked. 
BG: I'm a bouncer, not a flouncer and will be bouncing back to Blighty soon! Too soon....

[aaronjb]

So it's just me who can remember his NI number off the top of his head? 

[Paddy Flannery]

So it's just me who can remember his NI number off the top of his head? 

No, me too ! 

[05omegav6]

So it's just me who can remember his NI number off the top of his head? 

Nope

[biggriffin]

All is not lost! 

After a few pints of a noxious brew called 'Sierra Nevada' while watching an excellent RnB band, I had a lightbulb moment and found my NI number written in the back of my little black book. 

So that number that I've only ever needed when starting a new job has new importance, and not having it with me could have ruined a nice little side trip.    Make sure you have it handy folks especially when abroad as you never no when you might need a car.

Thanks for the suggestions!

Al:  I want to drive a car not work on a car while I'm still here. 
Ross: Getting Texas licence might have worked. 
BG: I'm a bouncer, not a flouncer and will be bouncing back to Blighty soon! Too soon....

Is that due to the American sized portions.

[Sir Tigger KC]

Ha ha you're not wrong there. I'm even doing Yankee sized poops!   

[Vamps]

So it's just me who can remember his NI number off the top of his head? 

Nope

I only recently learned it, mainly by form filling............

[Lazydocker]

So it's just me who can remember his NI number off the top of his head? 

No, me too ! 

And me... Known mine off by heart since I was about 17

[EMD]

Ha ha you're not wrong there. I'm even doing Yankee sized poops!  

 

That be all those Dunkin Donuts 

[aaronjb]

So it's just me who can remember his NI number off the top of his head? 

No, me too ! 

And me... Known mine off by heart since I was about 17

I'm glad I'm not the only one.. it's fortunate I can remember mine, I don't think I've seen my NI card since about 1997..

[Vamps]

So it's just me who can remember his NI number off the top of his head? 

No, me too ! 

And me... Known mine off by heart since I was about 17

I'm glad I'm not the only one.. it's fortunate I can remember mine, I don't think I've seen my NI card since about 1997..

I don't even have one.........