The rental car place was out of cars except for the Hummer which they gave me for the compact rate. This car represents everything I’m opposed to. It’s like being a democrat and being stuck with a car that has republican bumper stickers all over it.
I think it’s burning fuel while parked in front of my house.
Is there anything I can do to take advantage of this beast while it’s in my posession for the next week? Anybody need a boat towed?
Drive the hell out of it. Find the gnarliest, muddiest road you can and go as fast as you can on it. Seriously, use it the way it was intended to be used. Get it out of your system. You know you want to
I hear you. The only thing that sucks worse than Hummers are the people that drive them. As JenHS says - take it off road and drive the snot out of it just to to prove that at least one Hummer has done more than cruise suburbia.
Even with the “compact” rate you’re out BIG BUCKS because it’s such a gas guzzler. Personally, I would not have accepted their offer.
I book ahead, and therefore enter into a legal contract with the rental company. When they don’t live up to their end of the bargain, YOU have rights. You’re NOT getting a deal with a “compact” rate. I would have demanded the car I booked, or a substitute of MY choice, AND at a substantial discount. If they couldn’t accommodate me in an adequate time frame and fashion, I would have demanded THEY find a competitor company that will, and any extra charges would be paid for by THEM.
You probably don’t know this, but this happens frequently. You should NEVER accept this “bait and switch”. You have every right to get the car you rented, and in this case, at a discount, with coupons for future discounts with that company.
THEY screwed up, why let them screw you?
Did you get the insurance on it?
If so…beat the crap out of it. Destroy it so it is of no further use. That would be one less of those damn things on the road.
They epitomize everything that is bad about SUV’s. If someone drives a 'Vette to make up for having a small weiner (as people say it is) then driving a Hummer is someone trying to make up for not having a brain in their heads.
I feel like SUVs never would have become cool if rappers hadn’t made them popular.
I wish rappers had become infautated with 13 inch wheels instead of 20s, and miatas instead of escalades
haha
Heck, don’t just feel like a tool, BE a tool!
Get an Al Gore rubber facemask, slap 3 bumper stickers on it:
“Earth In The Balance”
“My Daddy’s the TN Senator that said “Hell No” to Civil Rights in 1964”
“I invented the Internets”
maybe one more - “I lost Florida”
Are you talkin’ to me? ARE YOU TALKIN’ TO ME?!?
I say, let your face grow into the mask.
drive like a dick, honk like crazy, yell at people.
you’ll be like an agent provacateur.
That does sound like a lousy rental situation, but I had a worse one. This was years ago, when I was still single. My car was pretty smashed up when I was rear-ended by a famous golfer. (I’d never heard of him, but my golfer friends told me he was famous.) Insurance covered the rental, but the only thing available was a light gold minivan.
As a single guy, it is extremely difficult to feel confident and sexy driving a f’ing minivan. I spent the weeks while my car was in the shop in horrible apprehension that I’d have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for a date, 'cause there’s just NO way.
Unless she really digs those captain’s chairs in the back, I suppose.
I’m in a similar situation. My car got banged up while it was in the parking lot. Thankfully I still got the woman’s info who hit me, who was very nice. I wasn’t able to make reservations though, so I got stuck with what they had. Thankfully I only have to drive a few miles a day and I should have my car back in a few days.
My first thought was “oh crap, the gas money”, but it won’t cost me more than 10 bucks over 3 days.
Funny thing was that the 3 guys in the rental place were like “you lucky bastard, we’re hooking you up”. And then I said I pretty much said anything but that Hummer please. They were stunned. To each their own I guess.
Is there anything I can do to take advantage of this beast while it’s in my posession for the next week?
Drive to the nearest Whole Foods or Trader Joe’s, park in handicap spot, dump an ashtray full of butts from your window, put your bluetooth earpiece on, then take a nap in the driver’s seat with the truck running.
hey, at least you have wheels. you’re pretty fortunate actually. maybe this is not the car of your dreams, but there are alot of people really suffering out there, sounds like you’re not one of them.
“there are alot of people really suffering out there”
Kitty, methinks that’s triocd’s point. This is a time of a very bad economy and the whole auto industry is now finally starting to begin thinking green. The Hummer is the anti-christ to the reality in which we live, an absurdly ostentatious gas guzzling vehicle that is just not in touch with the times. Personally, I wouldn’t want to be caught dead driving one.
You are a tool…deal with it…
Back when gas was $4 a gallon, the fuel pump on my little sports car went to crap. Thankfully, the part was one of the many recalls issued on the 2000 Cougar, so the dealer got me a car …make that an F150 SuperCrew.
I drive a minimum of 50 miles a day. I could not get rid of Big Blue to save my life. First the dealer forgot to order the part. When I finally got my car back after 3 days, I went to fill it up and realized they had forgotten to reattach the freaking line from the gas cap to the fuel tank!!! Of course the only car the rental place had available at any point in time was this stupid monster truck. I ended up going through close to two and a half tanks of gas in 4 days thanks to Big Blue.
I didn’t get to use and abuse the truck due to it putting a serious dent in my wallet every time I even though about driving anywhere. I agree with the others …gas prices are down down, drive the hell out of that beast.
Back when gas was $4 a gallon, the fuel pump on my little sports car went to crap. Thankfully, the part was one of the many recalls issued on the 2000 Cougar, so the dealer got me a car …make that an F150 SuperCrew.
I drive a minimum of 50 miles a day. I could not get rid of Big Blue to save my life. First the dealer forgot to order the part. When I finally got my car back after 3 days, I went to fill it up and realized they had forgotten to reattach the freaking line from the gas cap to the fuel tank!!! Of course the only car the rental place had available at any point in time was this stupid monster truck. I ended up going through close to two and a half tanks of gas in 4 days thanks to Big Blue.
I didn’t get to use and abuse the truck due to it putting a serious dent in my wallet every time I even though about driving anywhere. I agree with the others …gas prices are down down, drive the hell out of that beast.
Sports car? hahahahhahahahahahhahhah sports car bwaahhahah…
ok I’m done.
lol …I know At least it was the V6 model.
yes, i know. but to have a rental car at all is fortunate. i’ve been seeing mroe people dropped & stuck on the side of the road, and driving beaters (crashed beaters) possibly more than before. there is an irony, this is my point; the hummer stands for what is wrong, but at the side time he is actually fortunate to have a vehicle to drive at all.
I read a study about a year and a half ago that analyzed the carbon footprint of several major cars. The analysis included everything needed to build the car, plus running the car for it’s typical life-span. The report showed that a Hummer was actually less damaging to the environment than a Prius. That’s because the technology needed for the Prius is not yet advanced enough to make it “green”. The materials they need to build the battery come from all over the world, spewing fuel while the materials are brought to the assembly plant. I’ll see if I can dig up that article. It was pretty interesting.