Do you ever get the feeling that some businesses don’t watch their competition too closely? Last weekend we wanted to rent a car. National, my normal rental place, wanted $78 a day. “Hmmm… why so expensive?” On the Easter long weekend, we paid ~$40 a day so I checked out a few others rental sites.

Avis was in the $50 range and Budget was around $43. Guess who I rented from even though it was inconvenient? I’m not sure how National figures they can charge so much more when their competition aren’t.

In any event, we had a nice day trip in our deluxe Hyundai Elantra Touring. Brunch in Horseshoe Bay and then off to Whistler. Being in Whistler on the long weekend was like being on a college campus. To be fair it’s not the place to go when you don’t have any plans apart from wandering the village. After an hour of walking around and a pair of ice creams, we were wondering why we came. At least the drive was nice…

The car was really nice even though it was the base model. Tons of air bags, lots of room and ver comfortable. The only negative was that it was a bit gutless. Not so much gutless; the problem is that it comes with a retarded confused transmission. It doesn’t downshift when it should, so I do it and then it won’t upshift after the lower gear is no longer required. Odd. In the city it seemed to be fine.

Once we were home, the inevitable conversation started up about us buying a car, this time initiated by Mihwa. We have this conversation from time to time. One of us brings it up and the other vetoes. This is followed in the coming weeks by the same conversation but with the roles reversed. So far, no car.

Do you like buses? This guy does…