August 2016 by Jeremy Shurtleff
Hi, My recent experience renting a truck from uhaul was nothing short of exuberant. So, I was like driving all over town trying to keep this oversized behemoth floating box of death inside the traffic lights lines, and what not. Navigating roads riddled with drivers apparently completely confident in my ability to operate this thing of which surely you need a CDL to drive, but however I drove away with nothing but a credit card, and an ID. Loading it was nothing but a gay old time. Running up, and down your convenient ramp onto the low docking bay of your truck was easy, and efficient A++. Having to unload it 5 hours later, and walk down that ramp, or should I say metal slip-n-slide of death......F- . Every turn after the interstate grew more precarious as I drew near my final destination. Like all these people were honking, and screaming at me as turned into this street downtown, so what if 8 cars had to back up in unison so I could make it, like get out of my way I'm moving here C-. I finally got to my new house, and realized I had to back this thing around a corner, down a hill, and into a driveway that was most certainly made for a scooter. My knuckles whitened, and my upper lip perspired in retched fear, and anticipation of what I was about to do. I had to engage the parking break, and go puke like it was almost my turn at open mic which then engaged a siren of which its sound proportions could only indicate that the truck was about to explode, I go puke again. I then realize that this buzzer was just to remind you the parking break was still on.....good I thought I was going to die. I then align all the mirrors positioning them in a way that could somehow make me a backer upper expert, and then I climb into the truck and commit to what I needed to do, so what if I've been blocking traffic for 15 min now, like get out my' face , I'm moving here. So then in only 30 min, a quarter tank of gas, and 300' later I managed to defeat the dark knight of driveways without a single fatality...... B+. The realization I had to make the drive back to the uhaul place....F-. My overall experience was swell in that nobody was killed during my rental experience, and based on the average grade of my unique grading system it leaves us with a D-. Best regards, Overly Cautious Driver
