That’s entirely true - but it has nothing to do with the point. Enterprise, more than other car rental companies, depends on local business* - whether it’s from insurance company contracts or people renting on their own dime. And a fair amount of that business in many touristy places comes from insurance company rentals- few people rent a car because their car is in the shop a day or two and people visiting will rent from a company that’s located at the airport . Taxes on rental cars ( like hotel taxes) are often pitched as imposing a burden on out-of-towners, not local folks. And in this case apparently the Enterprise employee was against the tax because Enterprise has a lot of local customers. However, it’s likely that few local customers would be taxed , because it’s entirely possible for a particular Enterprise location to be almost entirely dependent on insurance company business. I have been driving for over 35 years and have had cars in the shop many times. I’ve rented one on my own dime once- at that time, I worked at a place that’s very difficult to get to by public transportation and my car was going to be in the shop for about a week. The other times I’ve either borrowed a car/gotten a ride from a friend or relative, used public transit , took a cab or gotten a free rental/loaner from either the insurance company or the dealership.
That’s why they have/had the “We’ll pick you up” slogan - no need to advertise picking people up if you mainly rent to people at the airport.
No shit you find a roommate. That’s what I did until I was nearly thirty and making way less per hour. Or multiple roommates. Or get a second job. Or all of the above.
To the OP, any story about massive student debt that isn’t for something like med school.
With a roommate, it’s absolutely doable. Hell, I rent out my entire house here for $1200/mo in Archer Heights, and it is not a war zone. A studio at that price, though, would be hard to come by. But you can probably get a basement apartment around here for $700 or so. (And, yes, right out of college, I did have roommates to bring living expenses down. Is this not usual anymore?)
I have gotten the impression (mainly from this board) that expecting to have roommates is very location-dependent. I have lived in NYC my whole life, and do not know a single person ( not my age and not my kids’ age) who grew up here and moved out of their parent’s home and into their own NYC apartment right after high school/college. They all moved into apartments with either roommates or spouses/SOs or didn’t move out until their income has increased a few years after finishing school. But that’s apparently not the case everywhere , judging by the number of people who are surprised that it’s almost impossible to afford an apartment on a single minimum wage income.
Yeah, I’m sure if people just glanced superficially at a good friend’s financial situation about ten years after college they’d’ve tsked at it, not realizing that despite a good job she was literally one pay check away from declaring bankruptcy due to medical bills.
And sometimes your insurance covers one week and the car is in the shop for six (thank you, Just In Time! Thank you, guy who tried to total my car and his girlfriend’s simultaneously!).
On my side:
Anything involving food which includes stuff such as references to the dangers of chemicals. Bonus points if it’s a bad translation from English to Spanish, with “chemicals” translated as químicos: I must admit people with degrees in chemistry are indeed dangerous, specially when we’re the ones cooking the food of morons
In Spanish, químico (n) refers to the people; química (n) to the science of Chemistry itself. If you mean the stuffs, it’s an adjective: sustancias químicas, productos químicos…
According to this Portuguese dictionary, the usage of the noun to refer to the stuffs is correct in Portuguese (meaning 5).
Thanks. After looking at my go-to thick dictionary, Michaelis, it seems that Portuguese has the same usage as Spanish; Perhaps the linked dictionary indicates an uncommon use or something creeping in from English. I learn something new every day!
It’s humbling how stupid words that any child knows in another language always sneak up on us to trip us up.
That’s not unusual. I would guess a majority of my friends don’t have a land line. Heck, I abandoned my landline about 15 years ago, but my wife wanted an extra line in the house when we got married, so we actually do have a VOIP line since 2012 or so, if that counts as a landline. If it were just up to me, we’d still be cellular-only.
My local news did a story a while back that had feel-good as the intent, and it totally backfired.
This elderly couple were “raising” ALL FIFTEEN OF THEIR GRANDCHILDREN because none of their 6 kids were capable of caring for them. Think about it: Where did the parents go wrong in the first place that none of those 12-plus parents (the kids themselves and the people they chose to breed with) were able to raise their kids?
I remember an article in my local paper The Tennessean about a single mother who couldn’t afford to feed her children. It featured a photo of the woman holding a cigarette and wreathed in smoke. I confess my first thought was “you can’t afford food but you can buy tobacco.”
Years and years ago my Father read a puff piece in the local paper about a local family that had 12 children, with another one or two on the way. The family was interviewed, and the father said, (as was reported drippingly in the article) that as long as the good Lord sent him children, he would welcome them.
Dad’s immediate comment was “If somebody would cut off his balls, he’d find out who was sending them”.
I know this isn’t what you are asking. But the information is out there. Speaking to minimum wage, all you need is a graph of historic minimum wages showing real dollars against current dollars. The high point in minimum wage buying power was around 1969, and it’s been dropping in the years since. US minimum wage by year
I was reading a letter to the editor by a self-described millennial on the subject of how baby boomers have ruined everything, and I was sympathetic* up until the point the writer protested the absence of opportunity for people in their early 20s to buy a house - as if young folks of any generation could routinely do this in the past.
