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- From: sek@cbnews.cb.att.com (stephanie.e.kearns)
- Subject: A few vacation peeves (longish)
- Organization: AT&T
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 19:03:04 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.190304.1102@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- Keywords: rental cars, toothless grins, lost in San Francisco
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- Having just returned from 2 1/2 weeks in California, I accumulated a small
- stash of peeves.
-
- 1. We rented a Taurus - actually not a bad car (for two weeks). Except,
- come time to get
- our first tankful of gas, we couldn't get the gas cover off to get to the
- filler. Now this was really embarrassing. We were at a self-service
- station (way up in Live Oak, CA - a very rural community), and running
- around looking for levers or buttons or crowbars or anything to open it
- with. (We had sent the mother-in-law in to pay for $10.00 on pump one).
- While my husband and I were sweatily panicking (it was about 100 degrees out), and running around the
- car like fools, quite a line was accumulating behind us. Guess others
- wanted gas, too.
-
- Finally I stuck my head in the window of the pickup truck behind me (actually
- they were smiling while watching us) and said did he have ANY idea where
- we might find the magic button for the gas cap? (Of course, the car didn't
- come with an owner's manual) He suggested looking in the glove compartment, and
- gave me a big toothless grin. Voila! Two buttons. The first threw the trunk
- open. The second hit paydirt.
-
- Since that problem was solved, I headed in to the store for something - passed
- the mother in law on her way out waving some sort of card at me. I said,
- oh give it to Bill (my husband) - he'll know what to do with it.
-
- Apparently the card is slid through the gas machine, and it automatically sets
- the $ amount. See, here on the East Coast we don't have anything like that
- yet. So I guess while I was in the store quite a commotion occured because
- us fool tourists didn't even know how to work the pumps once we figured out
- how to get to the gas tank!
-
- Actually, it turned out to be really funny. We were kind of peeved at the time,
- but everyone else seemed to get a real kick out of it - there were about five
- people around my poor husband when I came back out laughing at/with him.
-
- 2. I didn't buy something I saw on Fisherman's Wharf (that place is a
- a whole peeve in itself-
- does anybody really go there except tourists? We only went for nostalgia -
- we used to live out there) Now I can't find what I didn't buy anywhere else,
- and I'm kicking
- myself for not buying it...
-
- 3. Having a map of how to get to a city, but not one of how to get around once
- you're there. We were kind of relying on memory, but twelve years makes one
- forget a lot.
-
- 4. Related to Peeve 3 - On our one part of the vacation without the
- children we spent about 10 hours driving and 3 hours in San Francisco.
- (It's only a ~2 hr. drive from where we were staying)
-
- 5. Vacations have to end, and goodbyes said to family. You people would
- love my kids - they didn't cry on the plane, they cried all the way to
- the airport...
-
- Stephanie
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