ah the rental car

if you haven't noticed yet, the name of this blog is 'my life is a sitcom.'


watch this clip - seinfeld about the rental cars


so i'm walking through walgreens and my phone vibrates which means i have a voicemail. "we regret to inform you that your car reservation has been cancelled. we apologize for your inconvieneice." no kidding. so i call the company and explain that i don't really understand how a reservation i made weeks ago just got cancelled three weeks before i am to pick up the car at LAX. this is how the phone call goes.

me: but i made the reservation five weeks ago to make sure my travel arrangments were taken care of. how can you just cancel the reservation?
them: yeah, we thought we were going to buy more cars but we decided not to so we don't have any cars available.
me: but i made the reservation. that makes sure that you'll have a car there.
them: yes i know but we decided not to buy more.
me: lets pretend that i reserved one of the ones you already own, what about that?
them: we've run out of cars.
me: how is that possible?
them: sorry.
me: i arrive in LA in three weeks and you're letting me know now that i don't have a car
them: we've given you enough time to find another car at another company, but we hope you'll think of us in the future
me: well, i'm not going to lie to you, it's not looking good. but good luck with that.

so, i had to find another car online... three weeks before i go... which means more expensive. spec-tac-ular

so i do a search and of course with the gas prices as they are, the cheapest cars are SUVs and they're about $600 for two weeks. that's more than double what i reserved at the anti-reservation place. so, i search and i search and i find a car for $100 more than what i was originally paying and i click reserve... before it has a chance to sky rocket again. low and behold i got a convertible. now, that's exciting and all but that's $100 now that i will not have for all the fun stuff i wanted to do, but it sure will make that drive up the coast a little more enjoyable.

so, during that whole conversation i kept replaying the seinfeld scene in my head. ah seinfeld, how i miss you so.