Our old subaru is dying a slow and expensive death, and I figured I’d try Zipcar as a stop-gap. Heck. Maybe we’d even like it so much that we wouldn’t need to replace the Subaru at all! We could be all progressive and awesome with our car sharing program.

I filled out the application Saturday. Tuesday, I got a sad email informing me that my membership had been rejected due to a “MAJOR INCIDENT” in the last three years of my driving record. For legal reasons, they couldn’t tell me what the INCIDENT was, but after checking their rules I figure it was that speeding ticket from July of 2005 where I was going 52 in a 30. Speeding tickets where you’re going more than 20mph over the speed limit count as MAJOR by Zipcar standards.

Aww. Sad. Very sad. There went that idea. So … oh well.

In the mail today, I got a nice thick envelope from Zipcar.
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