1/ ok i'm not going to do an explainer BUT i would guess that it's 40% trying to upsell you insurance and gas, 40% customer stupidity, and 20% dot matrix printers (yes, STILL!)
2/ now, you'd think that rental car companies could speed the process, perhaps by giving people in line tablets to start the paperwork? An app to access with your reservation number to do same? But instead
3/ Rental car companies had the better part of 2020 where their best and brightest could have been concentrating on how to make things more efficient when things picked back up.
From travel twitter I gather this has...not happened.
Just came to rant about boys swim suits being either 10-12 or 14-16. Kid is doomed to a suit that's either too tight or he's literally swimming in it. And who came up with these patterns?
I used to play in a creek/tunnel/ditch a mile away from my house. Where I would go, at age 9 or 10, and build dams and look at frog eggs. Also where I was accosted and/or chased, twice, by adult men. No convos with parents, this was all entirely normal. #GenX
So many instances where we kids, solo or in groups, were flashed, jacked off at, whatever by men—including on elementary school grounds. There were no all-school emergency meetings or…anything.
I also started babysitting at age 10.
We took ourselves to and from school. We’d walk or bike miles to friends starting at least in my case in 4th grade. No cell phones, parents may have not even had each other’s numbers or even names.
1/ I'm outraged. Fourteen years ago @jengonnerman published this sickening expose on the torture "treatment" being used on autistic and disabled kids at the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center motherjones.com/politics/2007/…
2/ Jen's investigation wasn't the last. All of them have found that this methodology of shocking kids who aren't behaving or are self-injurious is based on extremely dubious science. Myriad aluma of the school recount torture, essentially.
3/ There had even been an entire Law & Order episode clearly based on the "school" where, as in real life, desperate parents swore this was the only solution available to them, but which was exposed as a fraud and the "doctor" plead guilty: imdb.com/title/tt062922…