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Originally Posted by BoredOutOfMyMind
Will you hire a car for shoe shopping during the day?
Or will you hop a tram?
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Upon our arrival in Ireland, one of the first things my husband told me was that nobody here wears white tennis shoes.
So I started looking.
Low and behold! I DID come across a few! And everytime I pointed a pair out to dear hubby, he seemed to get a little more and more perturbed with me.
One of the last times I did so was while we were at the car rental agency waiting for our car. He was cranky by this time, and my pointing out the young man in white tennis shoes was ill-timed. He was disgusted with me, and I ended up with the giggles!
Which seemed to only perturb him more.
Our car renting escapade was an interesting one as well...
We landed, went through customs, claimed our bags, and exited the building...following hubby's lead, we walked a good jaunt away from the terminal to what we found out later was the Hertz rental return lot. The man there informed us, we had to go back to the terminal and look for the Hertz bus to take us to the right place.
So we did all that, and ended up at the Hertz lot about 20 minutes later, only to find out that what we SHOULD have done in the first place was gotten the key from the Hertz agency right there in the terminal, and then walked to the place we went the first time, the rental return lot, where they keep the cars for those who are Gold Card members.
(And now you know why hubby was cranky.)
He remembered walking to the lot and getting the car from his first visit, he just forgot he had to get the keys at the terminal. And the man that 'helped' us the first time, should have known to ask. *sigh*
Anyway...so we had to wait for them to bring our keys and car from the terminal. While waiting a second busload of customers show up. Then our car shows up. Soooo...we're loading the luggage in the back, and I walk around to what I think is the passenger side, only to see the steering wheel...so I get a dingy look on my face, laugh at myself, and head to the other side of the car...I glance up, and there's a young couple close by the doors that caught what I did, and were laughing at me. So...while I'm waiting for them to load the stuff still I move back over to the 'passenger' side, only to watch my husband go to the 'driver' side, and then bust up laughing that he made the same mistake I did...and yes, the same couple caught this exchange as well and were laughing at us yet again. Glad I could make SOMEBODY'S day more enjoyable!
Sooooo...after we get on the road, and miss a roundabout, and have to turn around and head in the right direction, we come across a toll booth. We hadn't gotten any pounds yet, so she just waived us through and said she'd be looking for us in the next life.
Then, we get stuck in MEGA traffic. After travelling about 5 mph for almost 45 mins, we come upon an accident scene...ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE DIVIDED HIGHWAY!!!! We were sooooo irritated!!! As SOON as we drove past that, the traffic picked up to normal speed...first words out of our mouths were, 'Yep, they're just as dumb here as they are back home!'
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