The westbound Rio Grande Zephyr rolls into Yarmony. Colorado. While I will always remember the location for the photographs exposed there, the thing that I will remember most is the mud that was the result of the mid-March spring thaw. Moving into position for the shot, my three friends and I found ourselves ankle deep in the thick clay. With no way to clean our boots, we got into the car to move to our next location, and the carpets of the car became filthy messes.
For the rest of the week, we anticipated how much extra the rental car company would charge us for cleaning the carpets that we cleaned as best we could.. I had arrived in Denver a day ahead of our planned meeting date, so I could sample some Colorado skiing at Winter Park. The rental company didn’t have the full-sized four door car that I had reserved, so I took a smaller car with the understanding that I could trade it for the car that I reserved the next night. The nest night, I got the car that I wanted, and it had ski racks. Fast forward to our return, and another disappointed customer was at the counter. This guy was irate, basking at the staff. He had a family on a ski vacation and the company had no cars with ski racks available, as he had reserved, and they had been waiting for some time. We drove up to the return line, and the guy immediately spotted our car. We walked into the office, and he barked at us, “Are you turning that in?” When we said yes, he instructed the agent, “Give me that one!” The agent replied that he would need to have it cleaned before he could release the car. “I don’t care! It looks fine to me! Just rent it to me!”
With that, we were absolved of our muddy transgression. I can just imagine what the poor guy thought when he saw the interior in the light of the next day
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