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Tip for people renting cars at Logan Airport
By adamg on Fri, 09/26/2014 - 2:19pm
Always check the trunk for pythons before you drive off.
Scott Kirsner comments:
I prefer to bring my own python. Hate paying rental car companies' $28/day python-in-trunk fee.
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Also look at how much your
Also look at how much your paying for a daily car rental, look at all the concession fee's that you pay, opposed to renting a car outside of Boston, big difference in savings!!
this is the case with
this is the case with basically all airport/non-airport car rental places. the airport ones command a premium because people get off planes and need to, well, drive places.
Not just Boston
Four day rental from Budget in Baltimore last month, and 45% of the bill (excluding gas) was fees and taxes.
Politicians love tourist taxes
Taxes on things like hotel rooms and rental cars are very popular with politicians because they're overwhelmingly paid by people from out of town and who thus don't vote in that district.
How could you?
Mention politicians in a story about snakes and not make the obvious connection.
The Empire State certainly does
New York State certainly loves that hotel occupancy tax, of which I gave New York State and Erie County $92 total when I stayed at the Ramada Inn over in Getzville, next to the campus of SUNY Buffalo.
Gotta disagree there
Although there are significant fees for renting at Logan, the daily rates are usually much lower than elsewhere. I've found that it's usually about the same price or cheaper to rent at the airport.
And Chris Devers comments
Chris Devers @cdevers 2m
@ScottKirsner @universalhub I’d bring my own Python but @EricIdle @PythonJones @TerryGilliam @JohnCleese @gvanrossum won’t take my calls.
hooray for including Guido
hooray for including Guido van Rossum in that list.
(Explanation for non-geeks: Guido van Rossum was the inventor of a computer scripting language called Python, named in honor of Monty Python. The documentation is full of references to MP skits and movies.).
GvR not 'pining for the fjords'
GvR is the author of the computer language Python, and continues making Monty Python references at surprising moments.
If it was in my car...
...it would be an ex-python.
Not dead yet
Yeah, sorry, I misspoke there. Guido van Rossum is still very much alive and actively developing Python.
Penelope again?
Penelope again?