The line actually moved fast and soon we were the next in line, when Claire points out a wet spot on one of the suitcases. UGH!!!! I just knew what it was. A few years ago I had this issue. One of my hair products had leaked and got all over everything in the bag. The thing was, I had double ziplock bagged it, so I wasnt sure how any liquid of any kind could leak out like that.
Now the trek out to the cars. I checked with a gal and asked which aisle to go and she pointed the right way. We could not find any Ford Focuss at all. In fact this row had mostly vans. After walking up and down a bit, I went back to the check in hut and the guy told me again which row, and told me that any car in the economy area would be OK.
OK, thats good, but my arms are hurting from dragging these stupid bags and I am now hot and I could feel my blood pressure rising. I have LOW blood pressure normally, like really low, where they often ask me at the Dr.s how I could possibly be living with such low blood pressure. LOL
.so when it rises, I feel it and my head pounds and my face is heated and I am not a nice person. (kind of like when I need to eat!)
We found the cars and several were hatchbacks, which I really didnt want if I didnt have to, but did find 2 4 doors and I picked one. It was a Nissan Versa, which I have never even heard of before, but it looked decent and we started to load it and I really had to get creative to fit the 2 big bags in the trunk. I am now going to refer to this car from now on as the POC (Piece of Crap). Yeah, I am sure by that description, you can tell I wasnt a fan of the Versa at all.
So we sit down in the car and I look over everything to familiarize myself with it and I program my phone to Port Orleans French Quarter. Something to take note of
.you may not have a signal inside the parking garages. It kept telling me it could not connect. UGH! I did not print any directions out at all beforehand as I was going to rely solely on my phones GPS. Not smart at all!
So I decide to take off and will hit the gps to connect once I get outside. We stop and have the car scanned and pull out as my phone rings. Its Mom and the line for Hertz was really long and slow and she is finally at the counter with a newbie. He wont let her get the car at the family and friends discount. Good lord
what a freaking idiot and of course I am on the road and there is nowhere to pull over and I have no idea where I am going because I now cant set the GPS!
He says my SILs name doesnt show up in their data base and I tell my Mom thats her nickname, her real name is this
..and I have no clue how to spell it and I am on the road and lost at the current moment.
So she hands the phone to the guy to talk to me. He is foreign and I cant understand a word he is saying. I tell him so, and I wasnt nice about it. In the mean time I see a ME bus and just start following it, which of course takes me to a toll road, which I was trying to avoid as I did not have my change bag out. Yep. The blood pressure is rising some more.
So I tell this guy her name and he cant find her and asks how to spell it. I tell him I have no clue, as I never had to spell it before and he basically calls all of us liars and they we are trying to cheat them. I ask for a supervisor and this guy is just as much of a jerk as the first one. He tells me that it is impossible for me not to know the spelling of her name. Um, no its not, no one calls her that and I have never been asked for it before. My mom argues with him too, but they wont relent and they end up charging her full price which is more than double what we reserved it at
..over $400 for a week. She was FUMING! And on top of that, they did not even give her the kind of car we had reserved either. The got a Chrysler 200 (which I personally wouldve loved to have as that was the car I wanted when we were car shopping last fall, but Skip wouldnt go for it), but they had wanted a full size and something fancier, as they drive a Cadillac at home.
So I finally hang up with the idiot and click my phone to search how to get to POFQ since I am going by the seat of my pants at this point and I feel a little better, though mad that I am on a toll road and stopping constantly to pay.
Its really hot
I mean much hotter than I expected it to be this time of year and time of day and I turn on the AC
and find out this car has absolutely no power at all if you turn on the AC. It was just puttering along and Claire and I just started laughing. It was really unreal how crappy this car was.
We follow Siris directions and I take a wrong turn and then she back-tracks us, which leads us way out of the way and we have to circle around for miles before we get on the right track again. I am pretty sure Claire might have heard a few select words coming from my mouth at that point.
FINALLY we arrive at POFQ and go out and park. I literally just got out of the car and stood there calming myself down for about 10 minutes. I am sure I had to dig for ibuprofen and then I also pulled out our Magic Bands and finally I was under control enough to go and check in.
for the car rental going quickly and being on your way to the resort. But, then I read about the phone call from your mother and with the agent and I 
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I'm glad things started to settle out once you arrived at POFQ. I'm looking forward to the rest of the TR and hopefully, less high BP moments!!
(We stayed at Port Orleans Riverside in March and loved it. Didn't make it over to POFQ but I'm sure it's equally as nice.) 
