Ah, motherland has (or at least had) no ID checking for alcohol. So, good times were had with vodka and gin from 17 or so, graduating to really crappy cheap domestic whisky and rum by 20. More than anything else, I’m grateful I still have a functioning stomach given the terrible quality of most of the alcohol I consumed early on.

Art — rental car companies like all businesses care a lot about the location of their product, namely, rental cars.

I seriously doubt they’d have been sitting around twiddling their thumbs and not trying to hunt you down to the ends of the earth to get a hold of their car.

Also, was the towing company sent by them or did you find one? Because if it was sent by them, seriously it’s so not your problem any more.

And, even if you found your own towing company, I’m assuming you passed on all that info to the rental car place — in that case, they’ll just take it from there.

Having a rental car banged up is a new experience for the customer but it’s really super routine for the car agencies — when it happened to me, I realized there’s a whole totally efficient system that automatically kicks into place to take care of everything pretty smoothly, including dealing with the other person’s insurance and whatnot.