I have to be honest, I was just about done with Enterprise this Monday. The culture is a bit too superficial for me. Normally I wouldn’t care… but seriously, I’ve been using mostly Enterprise for car rentals all over the country - and it seems that everywhere I go it’s pretty much the same. Super-enthusiastic to give you that plastic smile, then as soon as there’s a break in the conversation they run back over to the circle of coworkers to crack jokes about how retarded the last customer (before me) was. Ugh.

But it seems that I can be bribed. Monday I was asking for my usual intermediate car… think I was supposed to get a Civic… and it was taking awhile but the guy assured me that it was on its way. After a few minutes of small talk (Cubs vs White Sox and the like) he went to check on it. Came back and apologized, saying that noone had even started cleaning it.

Then he offered me the free upgrade. But not just an upgrade. No. He takes me into the parking lot, walks over to this Pontiac G6. Now the picture here is after I drove all the way to the client from Dulles airport. Notice the odometer reading? When I sat down in the car it had 6 miles on it. 6 miles. So maybe Enterprise isn’t so bad!

Does that make me a bad person? Anyway, I’ve been having fun this week. :)

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