Friday, August 18, 2006

Traveling for work. Location: Roswell, GA

So this 19 y.o. kid and his 18 y.o. wife are on their way down to Gunter for their first assignment, when they get rear-ended by some lady in Dalton, Georgia. Their car is totaled, and they have some back & neck pain, so we have to go pick them up. Not to get started on a completely unrelated rant on how stupid military contracting is, but our Government vehicles are Leased. There is a policy restricting them to a 75 mile radius around base, because otherwise the base would be competing with local businesses. EXCEPT they are LEASED, we are already renting them from a local dealership!!!! We had to provide justification to get a waiver so that we could take a van down to get them and their belongings, and by 3pm, we still hadn't gotten it. We just told the kid to get a hotel room, and we'll pick them up on Saturday. So, I'll probably be leaving with one of my co-workers around 830-900 tomorrow morning to go to Roswell or thereabouts to gather up our wayward chicks. I'm making sure to stop by Pappasito's for lunch, unfortunately, without margaritas or cervezas.

1 comment:

Dallas said...

Sorry we missed you while you were so near. Thomas was out on a motorcycle trip and I was wedding dress shopping. Hopefully we can meet up next time you're in town.