The car rental center at Sky Harbour is one large building a shuttlebus away from the airport. All of the agencies and their cars are in this building. I went up to Alamo and was greeted by a super friendly girl at the counter, who directed me to the pickup floor, where a super friendly lot attendant offered me a water, but said there were no more Sparks available and asked if there was another car similar to the Spark I would like. "Do you have a Hum V?" I asked. He started laughing and tried to draw some similarities between the two, until I said that something between the range of Spark and Hummer would be fine. He wrote "Free Upgrade" on my ticket, and offered me anything I could see in the rows of cars. I looked down the road of shiny but normal little cars and wondered who I would choose, but then he said "you can even have this one." I looked at a shiny, brand new, black Volkswagon Beetle. "OMG it's soooo CUTE!" I heard myself squeal in a girly voice. The car had been chosen.
Now I have never really understood what the fuss was all about with the VW Bugs, I usually just thought about the old Disney movie "Herbie," which was played instead of cartoons on the Walt Disney Hour on Sundays, so I was never really a fan. But it's roomy, and it handles really well. As I cruised down the Interstate at the 75 mph speed limit, the Lego movie theme song popped into my head, you know, the "Everything is Awesome!!!" Funny how the promise of sun, an adventure, and a zippy little car can make your day.
Isn't it cute?!?!? |
Look it has two cute little exhaust pipes!! |
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