luvflorida
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Feb 28, 2003
Just wondering if this has happened to anyone else, and if you felt as foolish as I did. We flew to Orlando a few months ago and rented a car. The car was a white SUV type of car, a Rodeo I think. Now, we're used to having our own car in Florida because we usually drive down instead of fly.
Anyway, my husband spent one day at a convention, so my daughter and I headed off to Sea World. We arrived early and there were very few cars in the lot. I parked the car and we went and spent a wonderful day at Sea World. We walked out to the parking lot and I started looking for our car. I automatically started looking for a black Jeep Cherokee, our own car, but quickly remembered we had a rental. No problem, I thought. My daughter and I walked to the row we had parked in, and walked to a white SUV, but upon closer inspection, it wasn't ours. Fine. So we walked a little further down the row and came to another white SUV. Not ours either. We looked around us and realized that there were a lot of white SUV's parked in the immediate vicinity. Now I was starting to get a little panicky. What the heck kind of SUV did we rent?!? All the white SUV's looked exactly alike! Ahh! There it is! The car we approached had to be ours. As I searched in my purse for the key and my tired daughter leaned against the front of the car, a young couple approached and proceeded to open the back of the car and place bags inside. OOPS! I mumbled something about thinking it was our rental, and quickly moved on. Well, we did finally locate the correct rental, and I've since learned that from now on when we rent a car, I'll take the time to know exactly what kind of car it is!
Anyway, my husband spent one day at a convention, so my daughter and I headed off to Sea World. We arrived early and there were very few cars in the lot. I parked the car and we went and spent a wonderful day at Sea World. We walked out to the parking lot and I started looking for our car. I automatically started looking for a black Jeep Cherokee, our own car, but quickly remembered we had a rental. No problem, I thought. My daughter and I walked to the row we had parked in, and walked to a white SUV, but upon closer inspection, it wasn't ours. Fine. So we walked a little further down the row and came to another white SUV. Not ours either. We looked around us and realized that there were a lot of white SUV's parked in the immediate vicinity. Now I was starting to get a little panicky. What the heck kind of SUV did we rent?!? All the white SUV's looked exactly alike! Ahh! There it is! The car we approached had to be ours. As I searched in my purse for the key and my tired daughter leaned against the front of the car, a young couple approached and proceeded to open the back of the car and place bags inside. OOPS! I mumbled something about thinking it was our rental, and quickly moved on. Well, we did finally locate the correct rental, and I've since learned that from now on when we rent a car, I'll take the time to know exactly what kind of car it is!