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Avis EZFUEL Sign

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I know this is random and I over-analyze things, but I was going through the pictures on my phone earlier this week and came across this picture taken at an Avis airport counter. Read it.

Avis EZFUEL Sign

Avis EZFUEL Sign

If I’m reading it correctly, it says they are going to add $14 to my bill for gas just in case I decide to drive fewer than 75 miles, but if I drive more than 75 miles and refill the gas tank I just have to bring the receipt in when I drop off the car to get my $14 back. This seems sketchy to me, especially the way they say it.

“If you drive fewer than 75 miles, save time and do not refill the tank. Avis will automatically add a charge to the rental for fuel.”

This part seems to make sense. If I drive fewer than 75 miles and don’t fill it up they will cover it for $14. The second part causes the problem.

“If you do refill the tank, simply present a receipt and Avis will remove the charge”

This contradicts the first part because the first part implies the $14 will be charged when I return the car after driving it fewer than 75 miles without refilling it, but this says I need to turn in the receipt to get the charge removed. Which is it? How many people end up paying an extra $14 because they don’t turn in a receipt to get a charge that never should have been charged, but was charged for their convenience, removed?

Thanks for the convenience Avis.

Forgiveness

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The other day I was thinking in the car, which is a way of saying I was over-analyzing something simple and turning it into something difficult. The thoughts this time centered around forgiveness, specifically what it takes to forgive someone. So let’s start by having our friends at Webster define Forgiveness:

the act of forgiving

Well, that was pretty useless. Let’s try Forgiving:

willing or able to forgive

That’s not really useful either. I’m starting to use faith in my friends at Webster. How about Forgive:

to give up resentment of or claim to requital for (forgive an insult) or to grant relief from payment of (forgive a debt) or to cease to feel resentment against an offender or pardon (forgive one’s enemies)

Now we’re getting someplace. So let’s say Jack does something evil to his long term girlfriend Jill, which ends their relationship and friendship. I’m not sure what, but it was something that was intentional and something that any rational person would say was mean. What would it take for Jill to Forgive Jack. Is it just a matter of getting over that event, getting over that event and being friends again, or returning the relationship to where it was before the event took place?

Thoughts for 2007

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Number 10
Life is sexually transmitted.

Number 9
Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.

Number 8
Men have two emotions: Hungry and Horny. If you see him without an erection, make him a sandwich.

Number 7
Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach a person to use the Internet and they won’t bother you for weeks.

Number 6
Some people are like a Slinky … not really good for anything, but you still can’t help but smile when you shove them down the stairs.

Number 5
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

Number 4
All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.

Number 3
Why does a slight tax increase cost you $200.00 and a substantial tax cut saves you $0.30?

Number 2
In the ’60′s, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.

Number 1
We know exactly where one cow with Mad-cow-disease is located among the millions and millions of cows in America, but we haven’t got a clue as to where thousands of illegal immigrants and terrorists are located.  Maybe we should put the Department of Agriculture in charge of immigration.

Bonus Thought
“Life is like a jar of jalapenos.  What you do today, might burn your ass tomorrow”.