sarameg,

Enterprise is who I always rent from (including yesterday to see you!)and they are super cheap on the weekends, usually about $15/day for the economy size. They also pick you up and drop you off if you call them after you make your reservation. This is why I have yet to buy a car. They will try to sell you insurance but most credit cards will cover you for everything but liability and (in MD) you must already have that with your regular car insurance.

Got a follow-up call from future boss today. I guess the interview went well, although a few other candidates have come out of the woodwork.

Have made significant progress in project De-Clutter! Yay! It's completely ridiculous how much of the pile of crap on my desk was actual trash. What is the barrier to just putting it in the trash in the first place?? Maybe someday I'll really need that small paper bag again??

megan, thank you! I'd meant to ask in thread cause I remembered you mentioning cheap rentals, but..yeah, I'm kinda tizzying and thus forgetting all but my name. Right now, I'm envying your ease of carlessness. Hell, right now, I'm a good argument for it!

Yay on the followup call! That's very encouraging turn-around time. I can't see why they'd pick woodwork people over the charming you, but sadly, I'm not in charge of hiring.

The second half of the bomb story on GA is on right now. Man, that is some excellent tv.

You know what occurs to me just now, looking out over the parking lot, but I just can't see myself doing? My dear neighbor, Miz Louise, has a car she doesn't drive. Her sister did when hers was in the shop. Which it isn't. But I could ask to borrow it. And pay her. But that seems...greedy, somehow. Paying less to borrow a car than to rent one. But it'd benefit my neighbor. Ahrg. I don't think I have the nerve to ask. Seems like such an imposition.

If she doesn't drive it, not only is it not an imposition, it's good for the car to be driven, isn't it? I know before my grandmother sold her car, my father would drive it around every so often.

It's just...weird. "Hi. I notice you haven't needed the car in over 2 weeks. Would you let me rent it from you until I get my car running?" If it were family, that's a different ball of wax. Also, this is my cheapskate brain scheming. And while it has its uses, I have moral blocks against using scheming to my advantage against people I care about.

edit: when I have her take care of Devi, I'm paying what I would to board the cat, without the trauma to the cat. I felt so bad the first time when I didn't.

YOU ARE NOT SCHEMING, sarameg. Stop that.

Ya know, sometimes I hate what my friends' brains say to them about themselves and their motives. I wish I could fix it all up. But what if someone fixed my brain? The idea is terrifying.

So pay what you're hearing the rate will be from rental places. Seriously, it still helps both of you.

But if you paid her even $20 a day, it's ... however much that would come to that she wouldn't have had, and it is helpful to have the car driven, just to keep the engine in shape. Plus, it would save you the hassle of returning the rental once you get your car back. If she's a friend, and she sounds like one, the worst she can do is say no.

UNTIL I CRASH HER CAR. There's a worry.

I've got weird dependency issues. And asking for help issues. As in, don't like to. Business transaction, sure. But if there is friendship or family involved, I get all freaky. ( Family loans, while no burden to the loaner, have resulted in full metal meltdowns on my part. And that's when they wanted to do it, pressured me to, over bank loans.)

I wanna fix your brain, ita. The part that causes migraines. ZAP. Delete the migraines.