Wednesday - Radio Stations

[ninanevermore]

Today on the drive into work, I was thinking about how the person who drives a rental car before you get it never likes the same radio stations as you do.

I finally have my car in the body shop after my fender bender a few weeks ago, and am driving a rental for the time being. My insurance covers a mid-sized sedan per diem, but due to a shortage of cars I was upgraded to a Dodge Dakota for the same price. I'm not a pickup truck kind of girl, but it's kind of fun to be this tall and to be able to see eye to eye with all of the other pickup drivers who usually dwarf me on my drive in.

The previous driver was probably young; he or she liked hip hop and bubblegum pop, in that order. In the rental I drove before this one, it was all Tejano music.

The next person who drives this Dakota will probably be horrified to find the first radio button is set on NPR.

"What kind of boring person drove this thing last?" he will say, "My dad listens to this crap! Gross."

Comments

[welfy.livejournal.com]

No one could ever make assumptions based on my choices. :^) I listen to classical music sometimes, and country when I am making my 6-hour treks to Kentucky (I don't know their stations well enough in OH and KY), but I usually just listen to rock-alternative stations. I hate a lot of the nu-metal stuff but I get lucky many times when they play my grunge.

[neanahe.livejournal.com]

My tastes is pretty eclectic. I'll listen to anything except for hip-hop, bubblegum, "easy listening" and Tejano.

[welfy.livejournal.com]

See, I like Tejano, but you NEVER hear it around here. I'm way too far north. I hear it like crazy when I'm in San Luis Mexico. Though I guess if I lived south I would hate that music. :^P

[squidflakes.livejournal.com]

Its not the previous drivers that change the radio presets, its the people who clean the cars out when you turn them in.

I took a car back to a rental place once, and had to turn around and rent the same thing after an emergency call from work. By the time the car got washed, sanitized, and whatever, all 6 presets were back to rap/bubblegum pop

[neanahe.livejournal.com]

The rental companies should issue the detailing guys their own little iPods to listen to and tell them to leave the buttons in the cars alone. Jeeshe. >:(

[lauralou-who.livejournal.com]

I think you drove the rental car that I had last week before I did!

[neanahe.livejournal.com]

Where you the who smoked in this supposedly non-smoking vehicle???

[lauralou-who.livejournal.com]

EW NO! Yuck.

[neanahe.livejournal.com]

OK, just checking.

[serene-orange.livejournal.com]

I love NPR.
The last rental car I drove was programed for christian radio and conservative talk radio..

[neanahe.livejournal.com]

And reeked of Fabreeze? Yeah, I've driven that one, too.

[noblwish.livejournal.com]

My last rental was from Rent-A-Wreck. It had no radio. This is generally no different from the car I usually drive, so I still enjoyed the sound of my own voice singing "Amarillo By Morning" ever so slightly off-key.