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given that Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific RR gave corporations all the rights of an individual, why is it that i now find it impossible to stab u-haul, the corporation?
i went to their website earlier this week and reserved a truck for this evening. they called me yesterday at 9am and told me i could have a truck from the office on fullerton tonight at 7pm. i showed up at the office at 6:55pm and asked a woman where the door was to go in. she pointed toward the back and said, "good luck." rob asked her what she meant and she told us she'd been there since four o'clock. awesome.
we got inside and the line snaked all the way to the door. to make a long story short, i sat there until 8:10 when they announced to the last ten of us (including a guy who just wanted to return a dolly but was told he had to wait in line) that there were no more trucks left.
to continue my television quoting streak:
Woman of rental car service: I know what a reservation is!
Jerry: I don't think you do. If you did, I'd have a car right now. You see, you know how to take the reservation; you just don't know how to hold the reservation. And that's really the most important part of the reservation: the holding. Anybody can just take them.
anyway, luckily nobody is moving into my old place anytime soon, so my landlord is cool with me staying a few extra days, so i reserved a truck with budget. u-haul gets the gas face. it figures that the one time i actually show any sort of initiative and prepare for things ahead of time, it backfires.
also, add atomly_syn to your friends list... i'm going to start making entries over there and i'll probably move completely over there once i have all the code written.
i went to their website earlier this week and reserved a truck for this evening. they called me yesterday at 9am and told me i could have a truck from the office on fullerton tonight at 7pm. i showed up at the office at 6:55pm and asked a woman where the door was to go in. she pointed toward the back and said, "good luck." rob asked her what she meant and she told us she'd been there since four o'clock. awesome.
we got inside and the line snaked all the way to the door. to make a long story short, i sat there until 8:10 when they announced to the last ten of us (including a guy who just wanted to return a dolly but was told he had to wait in line) that there were no more trucks left.
to continue my television quoting streak:
Woman of rental car service: I know what a reservation is!
Jerry: I don't think you do. If you did, I'd have a car right now. You see, you know how to take the reservation; you just don't know how to hold the reservation. And that's really the most important part of the reservation: the holding. Anybody can just take them.
anyway, luckily nobody is moving into my old place anytime soon, so my landlord is cool with me staying a few extra days, so i reserved a truck with budget. u-haul gets the gas face. it figures that the one time i actually show any sort of initiative and prepare for things ahead of time, it backfires.
also, add atomly_syn to your friends list... i'm going to start making entries over there and i'll probably move completely over there once i have all the code written.