Embarrassing Story
All right, all right. I thought I would keep this between me and the rental car agency, but here goes.
First, let me say thank goodness the CD player was in a rental car. It was out on the Olympic Penninsula in Washington state. I had been on a backpacking trip with my buddies. Flew into Seattle and rented a car from Budget for the week to go backpacking.
We drove into an Indian Reservation to start our backpack trip. La Push was the name of the town, at the end of the Olympic Penninsula, to be exact, for those of you who know the area. We left the rental for a week to go off on our backpacking trip. Well, the weather was, typical for Washington, wet. I hiked with an umbrella some of the time, believe it or not.
It got pretty stormy that week, and when we returned to the vehicle, apparently a branch fell in a storm and busted the windshield. All the shatterproof glass fell out, as it tends to do.
Then we had to drive out of the reservation, and as you might imagine, the roads were unpaved and, well, wet with big puddles. We came upon one puddle, I should say, lake, and there was no other way to get out but to go right though it. So we got a running start and forged ahead. Shall we say the puddle was a bit deeper than I expected, and we had water washing up over the hood of the vehicle. It eventually got deeper, and the water washed through the broken windshield area and eventually saturated the entire dashboard. Needless to say, that was the end of our tunes on the CD player.
I wish I could say that the rental agency didn't notice when we returned the vehicle. . . .
