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We’ve been car-share members for a long time. First with FlexCar, and then later ZipCar when the two companies merged. For years and years we loved trying out fun cars (“let’s get a Mini convertible today!”), or the newest space-age fuel efficient cars (“let’s try one of those hybrids today!”), or a fast, luxurious car (“let’s get the BMW today!”).
But something has happened in the last few years, we’ve only been reserving one car. Not one type of car, not one make and model of car. One exact car. Our car.
If our car isn’t available for the time we need it, we often don’t rent a car at all. When we get in our car we’re always disappointed, sometimes angry, to find out someone has adjusted the seats and mirrors or changed our preset stations.
We know this is crazy, it’s a car share system and the beauty of it should be that you can get a car near you at almost any time. If one car isn’t available, there are usually dozens of others to choose from. But human nature is a funny thing (at least we hope it’s human nature and not just us) and after a while you just don’t want to share. You want that nice car to stay nice because you take care of it, even if other people don’t (alright, most people do take care of the cars… but not as good as we do!).
That’s not to say we’re giving up ZipCar, we’re still members and we use the service all the time. But only when our car is available.
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lol xoxo
Yeah…creepy…