twist of fait accomplis

Monday Huyen's car was picked up for donation. We took the car out for one last drive around and, of course, it ran better than it has in the last two months. Nevertheless, it's nice that it's done and over with.

Now, time to focus on my car. After entirely too many visits, unreturned phone calls, and sent faxes, I finally have dropped off my car today to be fixed. Hopefully it'll all go smoothly without any more hassles. The place I chose is nice because they have a location not far from my work and they also have a Hertz rep right in the office to rent out cars (which is also covered by my insurance). However, after the paperwork for my car was taken care of (which took all of ten minutes), it took over an hour and 15 minutes to rent a car. Why is that, you ask?

• 20-30 minutes waiting for either Hertz rep to get back to his desk. He was out. Somewhere.
• 10 minutes to wait for the woman in front of me to go through her life story and then change her mind and not even rent a car
• 15 minutes to wait for the Hertz guy to take a phone call from another customer, which kept him from finishing his conversation with my insurance company. He put State Farm on hold for so long, they hung up on him.
• Another 30 minutes to go through the actual rental process.

But, I'm all set until it's time to pick up my car. It's going to be nice to not have it snow on me while I drive, even though my window's closed. 05:03 PM