Pretty much every airline provides access to every "reputable" car rental company as a service to customers. And rent card companies mess up like every other company. I can remember flying to Munich years ago. I had a reservation from Avis for a car with an automatic trasnmission. Got the key. Went down to my almost new Mercedes. Started it up. It lurched forward and died. Looked at my feet and saw the extra pedal. Went back to the counter and was told "we have no more automatics." Problem was that my only experience driving a stick was in a friends pickup in 2nd gear across a farmers field. I needed a car. I had no option except the manual transmission so I took it. I harkened back to my drives ed days and remembered "depress clutch, shift." I said " I can do this." It was not at all elegant, but I managed to self teach using the manual transmission ON THE AUTOBAHN DURING RUSH HOUR. Kept the car for two weeks, and by the end of the rental, I was a manual transmission expert. The poor clutch probably had 10x the wear that would have been expected by the odometer reading. It's a funny story now. At the time though it was anything but funny. It was one of the top 5 stressful experiences of my life. As I said, every company occasionally messes up.
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01-14-2020
04:39 PM
@jwmillerX wrote: I really think this was a Baggage handler for Southwest though. As my luggage did not contain a TSA doc that said they looked in my luggage. "Hi, I stole something and left this business card so you know I was here"? Lol, I don't think that's how it works. --TheMiddleSeat
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