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Travel fun
Got a rather unwelcome opportunity to drive a tin can on wheels courtesy of National and Enterprise. In a classical Seinfeld "See, you know how to take the reservation, you just don't know how to *hold* the reservation and that's really the most important part of the reservation, the holding," National didn't have my reserved intermediate class car or any other class car barring one lonely minivan. Your flight was late and it's 1am and we gave all our cars away, was their lame excuse. Since I adamantly refused to drive a minivan they had to borrow a car from Enterprise. Luckily for them it was 4am my time and I had no energy to put up much of a fight which is how I ended up driving Fiat 500 out of the parking lot. If you ever get an opportunity to drive this byproduct of Italian car manufacturing, pass it up. It gets blown off course by the slightest breeze and the smallest bump feels like you are attempting off-road driving. Guy at National left driver side window open for some inexplicable reason and it took me five minutes to figure out where the deranged designers stuck window controls (hint, it's not anywhere near the window.) Seat belt hight is comfortably fixed to strangle the driver, and you have to choose between easily reaching the pedals or the steering, so you better have your priorities all figured out. On top of discomfort inherent in driving this POS I had to endure mocking from my colleagues when they beheld my ride. I can't wait for National attendant tomorrow to ask me how I enjoyed the car.
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