Gods damn it.

[logomancer]

I just got off the phone with my mom. We have a truck for next week. Took a hell of a lot of wrangling, though. She called every rental place in town. Almost all of them wouldn't talk to her without a major credit card (she has a check card -- apparently, that's not good enough). A lot of them treated her like scum because of it. Enterprise said to her that if she was't good enough to have a major credit card, then they didn't want to do business with her. She's now crying because of that statement. Fucking assholes.

Like a credit card is some symbol of status. "Whee! I have a piece of plastic that can put me in more debt than a dot-com!" I mean, if one has a check card, wouldn't that be better than a credit card as they draw on one's bank account rather than on debt that he or she may or may not pay back? And they don't take them. I guess that's because they have to ensure that you're building up debt and helping the economy like any good American consumer. After all, we're not terrorists, are we?

Well, damn it, I'm not standing for it. I'm never getting a credit card. One, I have a check card, and that's good enough for the Internet. Two, it's all a corporate plot (don't snicker, I'm serious) to give us more debt and make us feel worthless if we don't have one. If they don't like it, then they don't have their priorities straight, and they'd rather lose customers. Fine by me.

So, to sum up...1) rental car companies are assholes, 2) Mom's crying right now because these places browbeat her about not having a credit card, 3) credit cards are evil and are worse than check cards, and 4) I'm never getting a credit card. I never really wanted one anyway.