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Stuff Is Happening

So yesterday I booked flights for the honeymoon…. and a rental car….. and the condo is already booked…. so now all we need is US and a marriage license and we’re on easy street for a week.

I got this voucher for a free companion ticket over the web by joining some travel club (that I since have dropped during the trial period so as not to pay anything) and we got one ticket for just the cost of fees/taxes (about $60).  The problem is that they only are allowed to book 2 seats per plane with that deal, so I had to find a flight that wasn’t already using it…. So instead of flying Toledo to Pensacola….. and driving 60 miles to our destination…. we’re now flying Detroit to Tallahassee and driving 160 miles to our destination….. a 3 hour drive…. stink.  Oh well, it hopefully won’t be bad weather and we’ll be driving in the Florida pan-handle along the gulf of Mexico…. So maybe it’ll be cool….  We coulda just flown without the voucher to wherever we wanted…. but the voucher let us pay $432 instead of $731….. so for that $100/hour drive time…. we’ll drive.

Now on to my ranting about being screwed over since I’m under 25….  To rent a car, the three major players won’t rent to you unless you’re 25 or older (Hertz, Enterprise, and Avis).  A few other companies will rent to 21-24 year olds, but charge a fee of $25/day for being young.  Over 7 days, this is quite the price hike!  I was lucky enough to find one company (Thrifty) that only charges $10/day in Pensacola… but since we’re now going to Tallahassee instead…. it’s $20/day…. GRRR!  So we have to pay $153 for the car, plus $75 in taxes and fees…. plus $140 for being 21.  The car will cost us $367.10 for a week.  Let’s recap…. We’re paying $367.10, when we WOULD be paying $227.10 if we were 25….. that’s SO GHETTO!  We’re paying almost as much for a rental car as we are for 2 round trip tickets to Florida by plane!  Freakin man…. always trying to keep us down….

ANYWAY, just thought I’d share.  Word.