Which is why, since I travel infrequently, I always take the rental insurance rather than let the credit card company, my insurer, and the rental company argue back and forth over who is going to pay, since I’m the ultimate available pocket.
Also, you don’t get blamed for the last guy’s dents.
“Another thing about a rented car is that it’s an all-terrain vehicle. Mud, snow, water, woods – you can take a rented car anywhere. True, you can’t always get it back – but that’s not your problem, is it?...”
LOL
I used to travel a lot and rent cars a lot. I had a National Car Rental Emerald Club account. You make a reservation for a particular type of car - econo, mid-siz, van, SUV, whatever - and then when you pick up your car you just go to the Emerald Isle and pick out a car you want. But if they are out of the type car you reserved, you can pick any car you want no matter the type.
In Arizona once I got a great looking red Mustang ‘cause that was all they had left in the Emerald Isle. After a few days of business I went touring around some Arizona sites and wound up taking some back roads from the Grand Canyon area down to Prescott. My next to last road started out paved, became gravel, and then became a hill climbing dirt and mud road. The Mustang looked like hell by the time I got to Prescott. It’s just me, I know, ‘cause I did not have to but I did run it through a car wash (I at least HAD to wash the mud and dirt off the windshield).
“A Parliament of Whores” - A lone journalist explains the entire US government. By PJ O’Rourke
The funniest (and most accurate) book explaining the government ever written. It should be required reading in colleges.