RENTAL CAR AGENCIES!!!!!!

AAAARRRRRRGGGGHHHHH!

Boy oh Boy did I just have a fun afternoon trying to make a car reservation to go to North Carolina in September...I usually use Dollar Car Rental cause I have always recieved good rates...I made my reservation for a Jeep Grand Cherokee (To haul ALL of Patricks stuff up from our storage unit) Price was good...I got the confirmation to my email....

"As of August 1, we will no longer accept the debit/check cards with a Visa/Mastercard Logo on them when you pick up your rental"

Uh....Excuse me??? UGH!!! I called them and yup...They will not accept them at all, You can make the reservation all right, and you can even pay with the cards when you return a vehicle but you cannot use them to pick up the vehicle ...I have always been able to use them rent a car...They are supposed to used and accepted just like a credit card...The gal I spoke to at Dollar said that she didn't like the new policy either...We both agreed that you easily overdraft a credit card just like you can a checking account...She also stated that she hoped they went back to the old policy..

I, needless to say was frustrated...I do not have good credit...in fact I am currently in the middle of bankruptcy...Won't go into the details but it was basically my only option...and I'm cool with that...I guess I'm kinda taking this as a slap cause I'm basically being told there's not way to rent a car unless I have the almighty VALID credit card (yup that's what it says)

So I spent the next few hours going to every car rental shop online I could think of...I finally thru Budget made a reservation for a Ford Exlorer and the fine print (which I AM bringing with me in case of a hassle) says I can pick up the car using my Visa Check Card...

Now all I have to do is wait and see if I am really going...Cause I need to use my rentention money to go....so far I haven't heard that we are getting extended so it's basically

13 days and counting down......

But "sniff sniff" going to really miss everyone here at work....ya know?