I normally rent premium sized cars because I am huge. I am none too happy that at most places, including Avis, but especially at Budget, Enterprise, and Thrifty/Dollar, a premium car is a Dodge Magnum. I want my Buick back, and I would like it instead of the Grand Marquis. :rolleyes:

Yeah, I've never had a problem having it removed upon car return. All I do is show the receipt from the fill up.

that and the lincoln towndump are the worst cars ever.

I think the key would be showing it before they scan the car with the wireless receipt printer, once that is done, its going to be a hassle.

But I don't know, I fly to FLL ad have a 25 mile drive to my location of business, so i have 50 miles before any driving of any other sort, and don't have to deal with this hassle.

You mean there's something worse than the Impala?

How now. Impalas are nice cars! Of course I have a nice one at home, the rental car lot is a different story and I kinda miss my Licoln and the marshmellow ride I had in it and it was a 1986 one!

A few years ago in PBI with friends we rented a standard (cheapest) for 4 adults and all they had were vans and Buicks. I took the Buick. I was driving this huge boat around So Fla for a week. We looked like we should be eating dinner at 4:30 and stealing sugar packets.

About thirty years ago I wound up with a flat tire returning my rental to PHL... No spare.:mad:
Since then I've made it a habit to do a walk around on every rental including checking for the spare, a jack and a quick look underneath to see if the car is puking fluids. So far we have found:
One missing jack
One more missing spare
Three tires on their way to flatness
One car that probably wouldn't have gone far with most of it's coolant on the ground.:rolleyes:

Just a quick moment of celebration - they formally accepted me into a grad program, suckers!

I've been undergoing an excessively drawn out fiasco between two schools which are less then an hour apart in southern Cali. First one offers the world, then the second makes a lesser offer, i pick the first, the first drops a bomb that their funding is cut and my position eliminated, i panic call the second who is now making a lesser offer - but they are trying to get a nice grant released for my work (still being worked on), first calls back and says "so sorry for the back and forth, your position is open again" and so I've just said "screw it" and have told both I have full intent of attending if they get the funds together.

As mentioned above, the first formal acceptance arrived. So i'm going somewhere no matter what.

I think i'll decide which school sometime in August just before I need to register for any classes and choose an apartment.

you and me alike, just I am going to sleep :D

As for Rosetta Stone or EQM's - I suppose I can do both, but I've got some sort of ingrained mental block that wont let me spend more then a certain amount of money on frivolous things in a certain time period.

I just woke up!

Ok...

I just went to continental.com and it's only bringing up the PDA site - what's the dealy-bop?

Edit: Fixed it, not sure why it did that though.

Does AA offer day of departure upgrades like CO now does?

Congratulations.

What field of study and can you say which schools you are picking from?