Dear @Avis Customer Service, you've just lost a customer for life. Reserved vehicle for school field trip, & you called me 2 hours before pickup to tell me you never carry those vehicles. Need to go to the airport (an extra hour away) and pay MORE money. No help or compensation.
@Avis Yeah, customer service was ZERO help (at least the three agents I spoke with couldn't help me). I have emailed as instructed, and you have exactly 30 minutes to help me, or else I am going to Sixt or @Budget
@Avis I will do this right now. Honestly, you guys have one chance. I have several carloads of teenagers waiting to leave on a field trip to Chicago, and no vehicle as of yet.
My father once told me the secret to a happy marriage.
“Stay out of the kitchen. Let her handle the holidays.”
I was 19. He was in his recliner.
My mother was cooking for 14 people.
She’d been up since 5 AM.
He’d been up since the football pregame.
I didn’t think anything of it.
That’s just how it was.
Fast forward 20 years.
I’m in the recliner.
My wife is in the kitchen.
She’s been up since 5 AM.
I’ve been up since the pregame.
My daughter walks by and I see her watching.
Not the TV.
Her mother.
Then me.
Then her mother again.
That’s when it hit me:
She’s taking notes.
My father taught me that holidays were for men to rest and women to work.
He didn’t say it.
He showed it.
Every Thanksgiving.
Every Christmas.
Every Easter.
The recliner passed from him to me like an inheritance I never asked for.
This morning I woke up at 4 AM.
Not for content.
For the turkey.
My wife found me in the kitchen at 6.
She didn’t say anything.
She just stood there.
Then she cried.
Your kids are taking notes.
Not on what you say.
On where you sit.
The recliner is an inheritance.
Be the generation that stands up.
Just dropped my teen daughter’s disposable camera off with her instructions to get the digital versions. 😳 So…we paid for a plastic camera and will pay to have those developed into digital pics to load into her phone. Got it.
@Joel7Richardson Thank you for sharing your experience. I wish it didn’t resonate, but makes me choke up and I’m with yoh - Lord help me not fall away, help me endure.
Grief is elliptical. It kinda shoots away & around & then smacks you in the back of the head from an unexpected angle. Feeling a strong measure of it this AM regarding leaders’ moral failures & the behavior of their minions. Oof. Jesus, come quickly. It’s a mess down here.
WHERE IS SHIRI?
Every self-styled human rights activist, every world leader, every human rights group, every influencer, every pundit, every UN body, EVERYONE should be screaming that question right now and demanding an immediate answer.