Friday, April 24, 2026

Good news for the just minded


Woke up to an email from our credit card insurance that they’ve approved our $2000 car rental claim. Phew, that is such a relief, and also, I wish they’d stand up to the lying liars at the rental company and not pay them. 

To that end, Matt and I spent a few hours making calls. We escalated our complaint with Hopper (after they denied any further action) and they’ll be escalating with Maxx Rentals and we also filed a complaint with Routes. I just don’t understand how you can rent with someone, pay up front, and then have a total bait and switch upon arrival. 

Anyway, Hopper refunded us $115 - 1/2 the cost of our rental, so that’s another win. And I did a little more digging into filing an official Better Business Bureau type complaint within Europe. We love Croatia and it’s such a bummer some people are so dishonest. And I know it’s not only there, it really feels like car rental companies are full of land mines for fraudsters.

It was senior skip day, and Adi asked, but we just missed 4 days around Spring Break. And she’s got so few days left of school. We compromised and they skipped seminary. 🤷‍♀️ They haven’t missed much. 

After all that, Delaney ended up staying home. She dances 4 days a week and she complains frequently about achey knees and back and etc. Today it was a sore throat, which is hopefully just due to allergies. 

I dropped Frankie at drivers ed, picked up Delaney, Matt, and Olivia, dropped the girls at dance, and then Matt and I ran all the errands. We had to hustle to get back to Leonardtown in time to pick Frankie up at 8:30. We got some good deals, some teacher appreciation supplies, and some things matt’ll need for his upcoming trip. 

We also did our Japanese yum box which was no one’s favorite, but I would really still love to go to Japan someday.



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