I had the opposite once - returned a car after a weeks rental and discovered they had somehow deleted all of my info while i was gone. They were VERY relieved when I brought their car back. They hadn’t reported it to the police (or i suspect their bosses) because i hadn’t stolen it. But they also didn’t know who i was, how long i was keeping their car, or where i was returning it.
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Did you tell them you had only rented for a day?
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They comped everything including the gas
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The car rental companies are generally a mess, which I use to my advantage when needed. Feel scummy about it at times, but is what it is.
No cars at your location? Kick that 1 day rental up to 2 weeks and magically one appears. Return when you want and you get charged what you would normally.
Want to return it somewhere else but the app wont let you? Drop that thing wherever you want, they know how to bill you and have basic standards for their one way rates, etc. First couple times I did this I thought it was going to be a process, check in people didn’t even blink an eye.
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Had an employee pull into AMS for an early morning flight. It was so early in morning that the rental car employee had just arrived and was in process of opening up the returns office when my guy rolled up.
Car was never found.
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I flew from Barcelona to Heathrow on Sunday, March 15, 2020 on a flight with about 15 people for 200’ish seats. I think it was one of the final flights between the countries before Covid starting shutting down flights.
At one point a passenger (a woman I later realised) walked back from the front of the plane to the rear where the toilets were located. It was jarring to see that the passenger was indeed wearing a full hazmat suit. When she walked back up the aisle to return to her seat, I realised that she had “if you can read this, you are too close” written in marker pen on the back of the suit. Those were wild times!
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As someone who contracted the stomach flu yesterday from either the plane or the united lounge at ORD, I’ll be wiping things down next time. Woof.
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I will just not read this and continue to live in blissful ignorance.
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@Tron on TV in Terminal C in Boston seems like the perfect picture for this thread
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Every time I see someone dump their bag of pretzels straight onto the tray and proceed to eat I cannot hide my disgust.
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Gotta bolster that immune system somehow. But even on a clean tray table that still seems unnecessarily messy.
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CLT continues to suck partly because it’s always under construction. They are doing construction right now in the baggage claim area, so less belts than normal. They have it set up where basically American gets every luggage carousel except one, and all the other airlines get one carousel to share. Your boy flew JetBlue today, and waited an hour for his golf bag. Unacceptable.
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flew home from Dallas yesterday AM on Southwest. flight was close to full but not totally full.
we boarded early A group and grabbed a row about 7 back. I was in the window, wife was on the aisle. we’re having a conversation about our next trip as the B group is boarding and a 60ish woman abruptly stops and says she wants the middle seat between us when half the plane is still empty behind us.
what the hell? so we sit three to a row with her in the middle while there are empty middle seats in a few rows around us for the flight.
if this was the C group and someone had limited options for seats and/or the flight’s full, I totally get and accept sitting in a full row in this situation. but this was bizarre. there were so many better seating options around us at the time.
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This is no fly list behavior
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Charlotte sucks for a hundred reasons, but a gripe of mine is the low ceilings and lack of seating.
No airport’s vibes match its flagship carrier better than CLT and American.
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I lived in Kona a long time. Hawaii is great and also like a third-world country in a lot of ways.
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You and your wife should have spent the whole flight kissing across this woman, telling each other dirty secrets.
Really go out of your way to make that woman as uncomfortable as possible. Purposely choosing a middle seat between two others who are clearly together when there are plenty of other options…that’s serial killer shit.
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Got my 1/10 flights you’re going to get boned this weekend.
Was meeting friends in Charleston for a weeknd of golf. Baaaaaad storms hitting Austin late thursday afternoon/evening. Move from a 530p flight (connecting in dallas) to a 3p flight (connecting in Baltimore) to try and beat out the system. Weather seems to be holding off. Things seem clear. Board on time. Start to taxi and within 30 seconds it gets biblical. Spend the next 2.5 hours parked on the runway. Miss my connection by 90 minutes. Stuck overnight in Baltimore and earliest I could get rebooked was 5pm Friday evening. Miss 36 holes of golf friday.
Mother nature got me good.
Listened to the airports pod while going through this. Andy is society’s spiritual leader for how to be a good traveler and human. Just treat others with respect and keep your head down. It’s not hard.
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It definitely felt that way after the flight was cancelled and there were virtually no options for taxis let alone Uber/Lyft.
I did really enjoy that about the island during the trip tho, felt way less touristy than Maui. Hope to make it back to play Mauna Kea as it’s closed for reno!
Similar situation in Houston last week. Fortunately we’d only boarded and not taxied before they issued the ground stop, and I could immediately jump ship. 7.5 more hours in the airport was the price to make home that night instead of inevitably missing my connection. Felt like a win in the worst sense of the word.
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