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04-JUL-2008

Lost Reservation

We arrived at the car rental place at 9 p.m. and they can't find our
reservation. I hand them my printed email confirmation, but that turns out
to be for a reservation the week before in Oakland.

This guy hands me the phone, and tells me to make another reservation over
the phone (rather than have him do it) to save money. I stand there, talking
to a reservation person who thinks I've walked into the Orlando airport and
want a car. I finally make the reservation, and have to call out the confirmation
number to this guy, who then gets on his computer and looks it up.

A few minutes later, we drive away in our rented Honda Civic.

I"m liking the Image Stabilization feature on this camera.

Canon PowerShot A720 IS
1/30s f/2.8 at 5.8mm iso200 full exif

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Bill Miller20-Jul-2008 15:08
That hurts :)
1moremile15-Jul-2008 00:54
If Dave was busy my daughter could have come an picked you up!
royalld12-Jul-2008 16:05
Hey man... Orlando... I would have come to get you... Well, maybe not on the 4th of July, but I could have any other day :^)
Dave Beedon12-Jul-2008 07:21
Were the Navajos able to find their home?
Jason Anderson12-Jul-2008 04:19
Love his exasperated pose and can relate to your experience. I was sitting on a plane at the gate once, when suddenly the engines turned off. Not good. Got on the cell phone to the 800# while everyone else ran for the ticket counter as instructed by the flight crew. I was one of the only ones who didn't enjoy an unplanned evening in Pittsburgh. So...why don't they just replace the ticket counters with phone booths?
Cindi Smith11-Jul-2008 23:48
Yep, they should learn that they'll end up on the Internet if they give you grief! Glad that is turned out okay!
laine8211-Jul-2008 21:40
The good thing is it made for a damn fine shot !!!
Pepe Zyman11-Jul-2008 20:59
Next time take your bike!
Gail Davison11-Jul-2008 18:53
Oh boy, I feel for you. We once had this happen at San Fran. Straight after a long haul flight, my parents who had never flown long haul before were with us, and they said we had the wrong piece of paper. They wanted us to call Amex in the UK to sort it out, as we'd booked it through them (I always book direct now haha) but of course it was the middle of the night in the UK...... Eventually they handed over a car.... phew!
J. Scott Coile11-Jul-2008 18:43
Really made you work for it!
Bob Floyd11-Jul-2008 18:14
Sounds like Hertz needs to "try harder". ;-) Sorry sir.
Scott Browne11-Jul-2008 17:49
What a pain. Glad you worked it out, though.
Robin Reid11-Jul-2008 15:33
What a story, and your shot of him captures the mood perfectly.
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