One of the ways to break the monotony of corporate travel is to find the pleasure in some of the small things. Maybe it's the upgrade to business class, a fresh set of towels or the 2 hours of uninterrupted downtime as you listen to a Kansas City sports-talk while barreling down a highway while chomping down on a Big Mac. These small wonders keep you sane as you spend nights in nameless towns, eating at chain-restaurants and sleeping at Holiday Inn Express hotels across the world... BUT when somebody takes these very small pleasures away from you, it's near criminal.
Last week while traveling, I get to the airport car-rental place the attendant shows me to my car...a 2010 Ford Escape. Now as the TOR readership knows this is the exact car I drive at home and when I mention that to the guy.
Rental Car Guy. "Oh great how do you like it?
Righetti. "Yeah it's a nice ride but you know I was kind of hoping for something different"
Rental Car Guy "why... don't you like the Escape?"
Righetti. "I do but it would be cool to drive a Sebring or something"
Rental Car Guy: "but this is so much better for you since you already know where everything is"
Now first of all... It's a car; they are all about the same when it comes to where everything is. The steering wheel is on the left side, the rear-view mirror is mounted on the windshield, the turn signal is on the side of the steering wheel and the radio is in the dashboard so the familiarity where things are isn't all that important BUT what is important is the joy of trying a different car. I like the Escape fine but it's like going to a strip-club on a bachelor party and getting your little Chinese Friend a lapper from the one Asian chick in the place. You are going to find the biggest, blondest, chestiest chick at FD's and have Dolly shove his bald head into her chest and let him motorboat her till his gums are sore.
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