Oso planning to go pro
Here's a story. I was talking with a neighbor last night, asked him how his summer was.Terrible, he says. Single dad and his 11 year old son drove to the Smoky Mountains for a week. On the trip up a mountain, his transmission blows, $4000 to fix. Gets towed, rents a car, continues trip. Arrive at cabin, start unpacking. As they do, a hungry bear appears. They safely retreat, barricade themselves in the cabin. Next day, he sees his car bouncing up and down, thinks there are kids having sex in his rental car. Confronts them with a broom, but .. it's a bear, in the car, doing what bears do, pooping, pissing, clawing. Calls 911 to have the bear removed. Rental car is trashed.During the next 48 hours, they have 11 bear encounters and leave the cabin early for a hotel.Somehow, he cleans up the bear poop, buys a carpet cleaner, a gallon of Febreeze, glues the claw marks up and returns the rental car and they don't notice.He said the trip was awful, but I told his 11 year old son .. dude, you'll win the day when the teacher asks "so, what did everyone do this summer?"
Are we certain the bear didn't to the teenagers first?
Old man taught da 11 year old was havin' sex in da car? Only happens wit folks from the Bay. Solid man, hey?
Wow, I'm very concerned for Benny. Being able to mimic Myron Medcalf's writing so closely implies an oncoming case of dementia.
TAMUI do know, Newsie is right on you knowing ball.
Reminds me of the time I returned a rental car with a cracked windshield and a flat tire. Got a demand letter, so I turned it over to my credit card company. Credit card insurer offered them about 50% of their initial demand and told them to pound sand on the rest. I was positive the rental company was going to come after me for the remainder, but they let it go. A few years later, I was recalling the story with fellow business travelers at an airport roundtable (by which I mean the table on which we were setting our beers was round) and one guy said that most airport rental locations that are doing 100's of rentals/day won't even bother to document any damage on a return unless it's blatantly obvious mostly because it's a waste of employee time. Which makes the whole car rental insurance thing sound like a scam: they would rather deal with damage internally and get the car back into operation instead of having to subrogate or chase down (i.e. risk losing) a customer... so in the process if they can get the customer to pay a few extra bucks for the "insurance" up front, gravy!Any former Enterprise branch managers here wish to confirm/deny this?
Worst business trip ever for me, was maybe 8 years back in Fremont, CA...
Great story Rocky. Side note: Cuba is great. Felt safer there than I did in Jamaica or in dominican. That said it's definitely not resort style vacation. What's everyone drinking tonight.
Milk. Fookin' pharmaceutical industry is killing me: "Do not take with alcohol."
You know what? Good idea. A cocktail might be a good idea this evening.
Can you at least wait until I get home, I am stuck on a stopped, completely full train (including sanders, and the air conditioning is not working.
What's everyone drinking tonight.
Are they good drugs?
Jury's still out....