Anybody up for FLL-DCA-PHX-PDX-PHL-FLL on 9/19-9/20? 7,286 BIS for 23,679 BD mi for $724a/i (3cpm in F). I just checked usairways.com, and it will sell at least six tickets in F at that price for that itinerary. Arrival in PDX at 04:12pm on Saturday, depart PDX at 08:45am on Sunday (with a 09:30pm arrival into FLL on Sunday night).

That is crazy good; thank you sir.

What are the B:rolleyes:x's thoughts on "unauthorized customer-initiated upgrades" of rental cars at places where they let you pick your choice of car from a numbered area?

I was by myself last weekend and rates were high, so rented a class "2" car. I saw some nice cars over in "5" on my way over to "2". When I got to "2", all I saw was junk, then down on the end was one of the same make of car that I noticed in "5" was parked.

Needless to say, I took it and nobody said boo.

Has anybody just grabbed whatever? Did they send you back? Usually when you go to leave they have only one lane and if anybody is behind you it would be impossible to back out. I am pretty sure they'd just :rolleyes: and let you go. Or could they ding you on the rate?

Wrong or just showing initiative?

Politics aside, I like the "Mr." that NYT and WSJ use when writing about the President. I think that referring to whomever holds that office deserves that title at the very least.

I hesitate to judge or offer advice on anyone else's :-: life. I know that I am not blameless for any difficulties we may have had in my own relationship/brief-marriage (as I said, it takes two to make something work right). However, I refuse to accept any responsibility for the straw(s) that broke the camel's back. That was a conscious decision on her part to be a :rolleyes:, and not to have the common decency to either work through issues or call it quits before engaging in :rolleyes:.

It's raining and dreary in downtown Calgary :rolleyes:.

If you give me a couple days, I might be up for it. I need to find out if I have the funds and the ability to raise sufficient replacements.

Both of those numbers make me want to cry.

I'm making ham, greens, and probably will have some coconut cake.

If the car is parked in my allotted area (e.g. National), I will take it (even if I suspect it was in the wrong line). Christmas last year, there were a mess of small Kias and PT Cruisers in my line, followed by a brand new Saturn Aura XR. Wasn't too hard to make that decision.

Post Ike, no cell or digital phone service in my neighborhood. I had a line (!) of folks waiting to use my land line.

Honestly, if the wind blows around here, my cable (and therefore my internet) go out. Power goes out 3 or 4 times a month. Cell calls get dropped.

Ma Bell, she keeps on truckin'.

Me too!

Read it again -- his wife doesn't even drive right now. She's starting to learn soon. She's stuck at home and can't easily get anywhere.

Since it was in the Class 2 area, I can live with it.:D If you took it from the Class 5 area, I'd say wrong. No one said you have to study the cars in other classes to make sure you take the right one.

Oh - late racquetball. And I'm down to 209.8 on Day 18 ^ You may recall that 210 was the official cut-off for me to start using Alli (BMI of 27+, assuming 6'2") but I was aiming to get down to 200 anyway ("from the 220's" to be polite).

What's the near-term problem? The next two weeks are highly ceremonial, our rec facility is closed, and I have formal lunch events almost every day ...

Stop beating around the bush. There is absolutely NO excuse for what she did.

Duh. Perhaps my post came out wrong. I was trying to say that a decent person would have either: (a) realized that it was necessary to sit down and work things out that were troubling him/her, or (b) be decent enough to just call it quits, then pursue :rolleyes: at one's leisure.

She chose (c): Lying Whore.

Unless you have Verizon FIOS for everything! Last summer we had a storm where I lost power for 2 1/2 days -- I ended up losing phone & everything. Then Verizon would not give me any credit for the lost service as it was due to a power outage!:mad::rolleyes:

I've wondered this too. Recently, at one agency (I forget which), they pointed me to the lot and told me to take any mid-size (or whatever it was I'd reserved) car. I had no idea which was which. There were no signs, only rows of cars. The only one that struck my fancy was a convertible that I knew wasn't the right category. I took something else. Am I to be responsible for selecting the right size car when they're not even labeled?