You Can't Do What?

While we were trying to rent an SUV for our road trip, our host told us that we needed to make sure that we could drive from state to state in it. While the restriction sounded odd to me, I quickly learned that most rental car agencies would not permit you to drive to the Northern Territory, which is the location of Ayers Rock. Feeling a bit frustrated, I began the long arduous task of comparing one agency's restrictions to the next and so on. Initially--before the wonderful news of the restriction--I had a great rate on an all-wheel SUV, and I hated the fact that I was going to lose it. But then I asked another rental agency, which permitted us to travel to the Northern Territory, if it could beat the other rate. "No way," replied the agent, "we wouldn't make any money." Before long, she was checking with her boss . . . and then his boss . . . and then I heard the announcement that I wanted to hear, "Sure, we can beat it." This was just two hours before we were to rent our SUV. And then when I went to pick it up, I learned that we were being given a 4-wheel drive, which normally cost three times as much as our rate, for the same price. God is truly good.