Hawaii: Summer, 2007

First day of my honeymoon with my wife. Due to the flight we arrive at the rental car place kinda late and get stuck with a PT Cruiser. Ask for something better but its the best they have; I can come back another day for a better car but no guarantees... You know the drill.

Still it could be worse. The PT holds all our luggage easily and it’ll be easy to find. We leave the airport rental place driving to our hotel about 30 minutes away.

And then it gets worse... Somewhere on a 2 lane highway in the middle of nowhere my wife looks down to grab something from her purse and lets out a blood curling scream. ROACHES and more ROACHES.

The roaches start coming up from underneath the carpeting in the passenger footwell. She freaks out and tries to stand up in the seat. I can’t quite see what’s happening but pull over & stop just as she jumps out of the car. The roaches look like one of those prank screensavers on a computer running along the kickboards & carpeting. I “rescue” her purse. I then play whack a mole with the roaches. Roaches & I reach detente: they promised to hid again and I promised not to continue the killing spree.

Since we were only 5 minutes from the hotel, my wife reluctantly rode in the backseat.

And that’s the story on how I got to make 2 round trips to the rental place instead of enjoying my first day in Hawaii. But I did get 7 day free car rental in exchange for not yelling the word ROACHES in their crowded lobby on my return trip.