Well I was supposed to be flying into Buffalo this Friday for a nice 4 day weekend. Very busy weekend actually with my fiancee’s graduation Saturday morning at 9am, grad lunch after, then a dinner at Romanello’s that night. My friend’s little brother’s 21st later that night and a meeting at the church Sunday. Monday morning was breakfast with my family then off back to Houston.
Well my flight was supposed to leave Houston to DC, then connect to Buffalo. That flight got delayed then finally axed awesome ok, United you better get my ass into B-lo ok? They hook me up with a flight leaving at 5.20pm to Chicago connecting to Buffalo with an arrival time at 11pm. Ok I can deal with that.
5.30pm rolls around and they say the flight will be delayed. FML. We don’t take off until 8.30pm landing at 11pm, missing the flight to B-lo. Ok once again, United get my ass to B-lo.
Well they tell me they have had so many flights cancelled they can’t do anything but put me on stand by for a flight leaving at 5pm Saturday. Well that just won’t do. Call up a rental car place, and tell them I need a car with GPS, and I’m leaving it in Buffalo.
Budget is the only company with any cars left. They have two one ways, a Burban and an Elantra. Ok give me the Chevy, they give me a reservation number. Take the shuttle over and wait in line for 45 min to get up to the counter. Well now its past 12. They say my reservation was only good for the previous day and they rented out the burban already.
:picard:
So I take out my new hotrod.
Car is the crappiest peice I have ever driven. The thing has 9k miles and it is toast. Armrest broke, cloth destroyed, over all condition is 4/10. Ok w/e I need to get home. Long streatches with the pedal to the metal net me a top speed of 95 mph, gps indicated 96mph max speed. On a long downhill slope I managed a gps indicated 116 mph.
Well I drove all night and drove right up to klinehands where the grad was. There is a door guy taking tickets right out front. I pull a Blues Brother and park the shit on the curb. They guys says I can’t park there, and I tell him I drove all night and to keep the car. He laughs and says I better get inside and opens the door for me. It started at 9am and I arrived a little late, since I didn’t get the rental car out until about 1.30 am. Needless to say I made it and watch my fiancee, leaving she saw me and ran up for a big ol’ hug. 
It was close, and I missed a little but I made it.
GPS showed a total of ~575 miles.
Total driving time was ~7 hours 45 min.
Average speed ~74 mph.
Total stopped time 15 min 11 seconds.
The last ~1 hour of the trip the tranny in the car would slip, hit the rev limiter and slam into gear. I guess you can’t drive an Eleantra for ~8 hours balls to the wall. Not my car. Returned it no problems later that day.
I slept a total of 6 hours from Friday morning until tonight. <3 it.
Good training for the rally this year? Well I hope to get a little better top speed out of my car. :lol:
The things people do.
