I travel for work, about 30% of my job is travel.
2 weeks ago I was in Rhode Island, this week and next I am in Arizona. In the past year I've also been to Michigan, Missouri, Wisconsin, Chicago, and Cleveland.
Today, after landing in Phoenix, I went to the National car rental desk, with my reservation number ready to go.
La squisha said "I'mma need to see a credit card withch yo name on it.." (For whatever reason, my travel card is my wife's. It's the smae on I've used for travel for the last 3 years. Never had a problem.
Today, I have a problem.
Apparently they have a new policy that says "Must be your name on a major credit card."
I could not rent a car from National (Even though I did just that 2 weeks ago in Providence. and last month in Madison.) I even showed her the emailed receipt from National in Providence.
Dat don't matter. They shud of axed you for a different card.
Fine. Here's my bank card. With a Master Card logo on it.
"No, we can't take debit cards. It hasta be a major credit card."
"Master card IS a major credit card."
"Naw, datsa debit card. You need to get your wife here so we can take her credit card."
In other news, Enterprise let me rent a car with a card that has my wife's name on it. All I had to do was swipe it in their machine and type in my zip code. hey never looked at the name.
Fuck National, and fuck La Squisha.
Figuratively.
Nobody wants to actually fuck that.
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