BogusRed's Sketchblog

Random musings from the PaperDemon admin.

If you haven't checked out Nintendo's Zelda Twilight Princess flash page, you are truly missing out. And if you find all the drops of light, you'll gain access to the downloads section where you can download 4 MP3's from the game's sound track as well as some other computer goodies. The Wind Waker flash page is also worth checking out. The artistry in these web pages is some of the best I've ever seen.

In other recent news, I was in a car accident on Tuesday. I was on the freeway when traffic slowed down. I came to a stop and someone rear-ended me pushing me into the car in front of me and that car into the car in front of that one. The whole thing shook me up a bit. For your amusement, I've posted some photos of my car. At first, it looked like my car hadn't really taken that much damage. The bumpers are just dented and scratched and the trunk doesn't close all the way. But then when I took it in for an estimate, the car technician noticed structural damage. So my car is in the shop for the next two weeks while it gets fixed. I'm not at fault in the accident so I wont have to pay anything, thankfully.

Car photos
Front 1, Back 1, Back 2, Back 3

To make my week worse, I had to go in for jury duty on Monday. Thankfully I wasn't chosen for a jury. I just had to waste half a day sitting around the court house.

I was really pissed off at the car rental place. I have AAA insurance and they pay for my rental car for me while my regular car is in the shop. They use Hertz as their car rental service and the customer service there sucks. The lady helping me tried to sell me insurance for the rental. I told her just as she was starting her insurance speech that I wasn't interested and she's all like "Wait, let me finish. This is important." And so I had to listen to her babble on and on about their three different rental insurance plans. Afterward, I told her I didn't need it because my AAA insurance covers me for rentals too and she's like "Oh I see you've done your homework." So she knew that she was trying to sell me something I didn't need. I found that to be a very dishonest way of doing business.

Then she tells me I need to pick a plan for how I want to manage the gas in the car. Can you believe, Hertz has three different plans for how you will pay for the gas in your car. They make it unnecessarily complicated. And I'm trying to understand what the differences are between each plan and what the point of them is. The lady says to me "Trust me, just go with the first plan." Yeah, right. You just tried to sell me insurance I didn't need, like I'm really going to trust you! So I asked her what the pros and cons of each plan were and she goes around my question and only says the pros of each one. So I get more specific with my questions and she's starting to realize she can't answer my questions. So I ask to speak to someone else who can explain it in greater detail. So lady #2 comes along trying to explain it and she does a better job but I was still left confused about it. I hate that place. I hope I never have to rent a car again.

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