Last week, I took off from work Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday to help Becky out with the talent show at her elementary school. I run the audio and (with much help from my friends) videotape the show and make DVDs for the kids. But that's not what this is about.
The show was on Wednesday and Thursday, so I also took Friday off just to have some free time to do stuff around the house. That involved renting a pick-up truck to donate furniture to Goodwill and move stuff into storage. Now, I drive a Mini Cooper, so when Enterprise hooked me up with a Chevy Silverado, it might as well have been Bigfoot. Automotive comedy was the order of the day. Not only was it difficult for me to drive such a large machine, I was even able to actually lose some items in the cavernous cab. So if that's what you're looking for in a truck, I guess I recommend it.
By the end of the day, I was done with the truck and really wanted to get back to driving my car, so it occurred to me that I could go ahead and return it instead of waiting until the next day, except that I didn't have a ride back from the car rental place. Too bad I didn't have a ramp, or I could have loaded the Mini in the back and driven back that way, I guess.
4 comments:
Are you forgetting your roots? No real Kentucky redneck raised on grits and gravy would ever complain about a pickup that is too big.
Here's the truck you want anyway. Under all the leather and chrome it is a pretty nice truck. I wish they had the $30k version for those of us who want a truck and not a 4wd show car.
If that link doesn't work, search for mxt. Not the military version :-)
I drive a Miata (smaller than your mini) and a Chevy pickup (not as fancy as the Silverado, but the same size) and yes, it is weird.
I always forget that pickups aren't as common on the coasts. For instance everyone I know is related (bother, father, etc.) to a truck owner, or has a truck as a third car. I've never heard of anyone renting a pickup before. The lot at work is about 1/3 pickups, though it may not be representative of the rest of the midwest (International Truck and Engine engineering facility).
Hmm, so no ramp for your mini, but surely your bicycle would have fit in the back of the truck? Why not peddle home?
(Umm, she says a week after the post. Oh well, I'm slow, I know.)
You think you're slow, what about the slacker who never updates his blog? You clearly have him confused with some athletic, bicycle-owning slacker anyway.
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