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May. 4th, 2004 03:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rivkaI carefully chose a car rental place that was three blocks from the body shop. My plan was to walk over to pick up my new car after I dropped off the old one.
I had not run my plan past the people at the body shop.
"You're getting a rental car?" the owner asked me, as we walked around and around my car.
"From the Thrifty down the street," I agreed.
"Are they going to pick you up?"
"Nah, it's just a couple of blocks. I'm going to walk."
He scanned the street, and then looked at me. "Have them pick you up."
I looked around at the boarded-up houses and vacant lots. "I shouldn't walk in this neighborhood?"
"Just have them pick you up."
His receptionist stepped into the conversation. "Thrifty won't pick her up. Is your car an automatic, ma'am? I'll drive you down and bring your car back. You really don't want to walk."
*shrug* So she drove me three blocks to the rental agency. I was a little surprised by the whole thing. There are neighborhoods in Baltimore where I wouldn't walk three blocks in broad daylight, but none of them are on busy major streets like that one. It was awfully nice of her to give me a ride, though.
I had not run my plan past the people at the body shop.
"You're getting a rental car?" the owner asked me, as we walked around and around my car.
"From the Thrifty down the street," I agreed.
"Are they going to pick you up?"
"Nah, it's just a couple of blocks. I'm going to walk."
He scanned the street, and then looked at me. "Have them pick you up."
I looked around at the boarded-up houses and vacant lots. "I shouldn't walk in this neighborhood?"
"Just have them pick you up."
His receptionist stepped into the conversation. "Thrifty won't pick her up. Is your car an automatic, ma'am? I'll drive you down and bring your car back. You really don't want to walk."
*shrug* So she drove me three blocks to the rental agency. I was a little surprised by the whole thing. There are neighborhoods in Baltimore where I wouldn't walk three blocks in broad daylight, but none of them are on busy major streets like that one. It was awfully nice of her to give me a ride, though.
