I Want My Car Back

I totally hate it when my car is in the shop. I feel so out of control without my own vehicle. Control freak? Me? Naw.

So I asked for a cheap rental car and boy did I get cheap. I got a Chevy Aveo with no amenities at all. It is an okay car, but it has a lot of blind spots for such a little car. It also has the loudest road noise of any vehicle I've been in.

I feel like such a car snob because I looked for the button to put down the window until I realized the window had a HANDLE. My Expedition doesn't have that many amenities, but it does have power windows.

The windshield wipers are stupid on this car, too. I confess I was too dumb to figure out that you lifted the little arm UP to turn on the wipers. Silly me, I thought the twirly thing next to the picture was how you turned on the wipers.

Yesterday was a crappy day because I had to get the rental car and Enterprise forgot to come and pick me up at the appointed time. So I was two hours later to work than I had planned. And I'm waaay behind at work with a pile o'crap to do. And I thought the windshield wipers didn't work, so I was using the cleaning function the whole way from Vancouver to Gresham and had gotten a little steamed by the time I got there. Then, to add insult to injury and totally top off my Monday, I went to Wendy's for lunch on the way to work, ordered a diet Coke and it came all mixed funny and tasted horrible.

Don't mess with my diet Coke, people. I've already had a bad day. Honestly, how hard can it possibly be to get the right mix ratio on a fountain soda?

Oh, and the mechanic called and said "hmm" a lot while asking me to describe (again) what was wrong with my Expedition. This can't be a good sign. Well, the only sign I think was involved here was lots of dollar signs.

Sorry, just wanted to whine a little. I realize in the scheme of things these are itty bitty problems and just blips on the radar, but I was annoyed. And I needed something to blog about.