{"id":22067,"date":"2013-01-11T19:59:19","date_gmt":"2013-01-12T00:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=16880"},"modified":"2016-09-19T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T09:05:06","slug":"truck-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/truck-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"Truck Trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went out this afternoon to run some errands. I pulled into a mall parking lot, parked, cut the engine, and got out only to notice that I really wasn&#8217;t parked far enough into the slot. I got back in and happened to notice that the gas pedal felt really loose. I tried to start the truck and it revved really hard like I had given it a ton of gas! I turned it off and tried to turn it on again, but the engine would not turn.<\/p>\n<p>So, in a strange city, it&#8217;s getting dark, and it&#8217;s about to pour. I used the GPS to get a few repair place numbers and everyone was, &#8220;Sorry, we&#8217;re closing right about now and we couldn&#8217;t get anyone to you till Monday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Living out in the middle of nowhere right now, being on foot was not an option! I had a gut feeling that I had only about 45 minutes, to 6PM, to find a tow and get my butt to a rental car company. I was right.<\/p>\n<p>I went into the mall to ask security about just leaving the truck in the lot over the weekend. Only till Monday, but they were concerned about vandalism or theft. So the awesome mall security lady called a tow company and then started calling around the rental car places. Enterprise promised not to close if I could get there by 6:00.<\/p>\n<p>The tow truck came expediently and the driver was amazing. I had no idea where to take the truck of course and he gave me the name of a Ford dealership, saying he would drop it there and have them call me in the morning. But, first, he would drop me off at Enterprise. He got the truck loaded and we tore out of there like a bat out of hell. I&#8217;m not kidding. This guy ran every red light he could safely to get me to Enterprise for 5:58.<\/p>\n<p>There, he wrote up my contract while I ran inside to secure a car. Their computers were down, so they got my info and started work on a handwritten contract while I finished up with the tow guy. Tow: $85, plus a $5 tip.<\/p>\n<p>He left and I went back inside to learn that I was being upgraded to a fancy car for the price of their cheapest car. Mine not to question why, but this is an example of why I never rent from anyone but Enterprise.<\/p>\n<p>The more I think about this, the more I think this breakdown occurred in the best way possible. Had it happened tomorrow, who knows where I would have been and my day would have been completely shot. At least, I can still take off and do something if I want to, although I am beginning to feel that tomorrow is going to be a home day as I am exhausted. Plus, I don&#8217;t want to spend too much money until I know how much the truck is going to cost me to fix. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>Hey, at least this didn&#8217;t happen during the road trip yesterday&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went out this afternoon to run some errands. I pulled into a mall parking lot, parked, cut the engine, and got out only to notice that I really wasn&#8217;t parked far enough into the slot. I got back in and happened to notice that the gas pedal felt really loose. I tried to start [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1027,635,5,3,16,1427],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-louisiana","category-north-america","category-rving","category-travel","category-usa","category-westwego"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}