Unplanned day 4. Unplanned. Need I remind you of my type A tendencies people? UNPLANNED. The day started out pretty good - up early with the kids, a free continental breakfast and some time outside enjoying the cool morning while drinking my coffee. Ahhh...it was almost heaven, which is fitting cause we were in WV after all. I even thought, you know - this is really not such a bad thing here. I get an extra day off with the kids and no one is sick or hurt. Damn - that's good luck. My mom was on the phone with her insurance company first thing this morning and the agent told her to use Enterprise and tell them she was an Allstate customer. Cool. Great. Wonderful! Let's call Enterprise and get this car rented. I call because you know, PLANNING is my thing and the guy at the office tells me a one way rental is possible. WOOHOO! But the office we have to go through (that's the closest) is a small office and the guy isn't in at the moment. Okay, still not a problem - I can call back. I explain the need for a one way rental, making sure that can be done. I am told yes, we can pick up the car where we're at and return it to St. Clairsville, Ohio.
We wait a half hour and do some more web surfing, playing outside, and so on. The call goes through again. This time whoever I talked to told me that Enterprise doesn't do one way rentals. I almost jumped through the phone. I explained it to him and he said, "Who told you that?" I'm like, "I don't know who it was. Someone in your office." The guy then says, "Oh well it must have been so & so, he's the only other person here." Uh, yeah........I'd guess so then.
We have now wasted almost 2 hours at this point and still have no rental car or idea where we're going to get a rental. We even considered a moving truck - but that was going to $130 with only 250 miles. So, long story short: Kenna called her people (her friend Jenn who has a van) and I called my people (Bryan) and he got her van and came and picked us up. 11:30 he left; 3:30 he arrived - our knight in shining fiberglass!
And we were off - first to the van to clean it out in the event it gets totalled by the insurance adjuster (my parents are NOT going 4 hours to do this later on if that happens) and then we beelined it for home. One stop for a bathroom break & snacks - that's got to be a record with 2 kids and we were in Barnesville at 7:50. But wait, there's more...........
We start unloading the car and there's no Tigger. He is missing! My son's Tigger that he's had since age one is missing. This is the trip from hell that never ends. I finally had my breakdown over the entire what could have happened thanks to the missing Tigger - it just set me off and that was that. I had to be consoled over this - I wanted to keep that Tigger forever.
Tomorrow I have some calls to make in hopes Tyler left him in the van or even somewhere at the lodge and he just hasn't been found yet. I sure hope Tigger turns up.
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