Will we have a rim today ???

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  Maun, Botswana
Friday, January 18, 2008

Check out of our Sedia and check into Maun Lodge. On our way to the new lodge, we drop buy at AVIS. No tire, or what do you think? I get upset with this chick. 'like I told him, yesterday, ...' (where I come from, one does not refer to people as him or her, but she does not come where I come from), 'I did this and that' ... (I do not care what she did, I want a SOLUTION). She could not get to a rim in town but there might be one on the plane, flying in at 14h30. Might? Or is? She gets annoyed by me: she does her best, what I am going on about? I explain we do not dare to drive anywhere, it is like NOT having a car! We did not go on any tours, because of it. She points out, we do not need the car to go on a tour. I pint out NOTHING will happen unless we bugger het 3 times a day. Yes, it gets a bit nasty, certainly when she tells me that AVIS gave us a car with 5 perfect tires and that we screwed up. I told her how I was going to screw her! I can be a bitch, believe me.

We go to our new lodge. Once checked it, the heavens open and it starts POURING again. I get lessons on paint shop. Dr T calls AVIS help line and tells them that there is no solution yet. He leaves to 'sniffle the hotel' as he calls it and is back in ... 1 minute! Poor hubby fell down the stairs!  And: sober: it does not even make a good story. They where polishing the carpet and some of that stuff made the stairs slippery. He has scratches on his arm and leg and will have muscles aches tomorrow.

We go to (you guessed it) AVIS at 16h, where (you guessed it) no rim arrived. I do not even BELIEVE in that plane. But: miracle: there IS another car! And all of a sudden is not our fault anymore. Hubby stays calm, I do not. They fill our car up with petrol and I tell the manager where she can stuff the bill for that petrol. After a lot of paper work, we leave with a Toyota, Yaris. The same chick claims that she extended the car rental with 2 days, she got the confirmation from Jo'burg.

Since it is still pouring, we decide to have the dinner at our hotel. I rarely eat beef. I do tonight. Rare. I get a well done. I send it back and tell the waitress to send the chef to me if (s)he did not agree. Screaming in the kitchen. Another steak arrives. It is raw and cold. I send it back and tell the waitress that I am very willing to bake it myself. MORE screaming in the kitchen. Perfect steak arrives.  I decide this was more than enough excitement for 1 day and make it an early night.

Alarm clock at 06h30: Mokoro: here we come!

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