Rental truck
My friend Mike just called me. He had just gone to Maine for the weekend. He had to rent one of those “do it yourself” moving trucks to bring some furniture home from his mother’s house. He rented a Budget brand truck. He took his Tom-Tom GPS unit with him to guide him home. He’s never had very good luck with maps, and has complete faith in his GPS unit. It will run for only about four hours on its own battery, so it came with a cigarrette lighter adapter to plug it into the cigarrette lighter to keep it running longer. It’s about a fourteen hour drive from Maine to his house.
He was some upset when he got in the truck, all loaded and ready to come home, plugged in the GPS unit and discovered that the cigarrette lighter didn’t work! He didn’t know how to come home! So he used the GPS sporadically, turning it on for a few minutes to see how long he had to drive on this stretch of road until the next turn, then turned it off until that turn. Doing that he made it last until he got home. He is planning on having a few words with the Budget Truck company when he turns in that truck!