A Very Inconvenient Day Of Rental Car Problems - Cancelling My Flight Home & Staying In California
Rental Car Problems
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as
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the recording of this it is Wednesday
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August 14th 2024 as you can see behind
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me got my DVC backpack purched up there
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on the garbage can and my rolling
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suitcase I was supposed to fly back to
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Central Florida Today back home return a
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rental car at LAX have a layover in
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Atlanta and then Atlanta downward to MCO
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and then return here on the 21st
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a week later two travel days and five
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full days later I would have been back
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less than a week at home and I decided
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because I'm going to be back out here in
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that amount of time doing a lot of
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Halloween stuff finishing off the
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baseball Series that I only have two
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stadiums left seeing the Tampa Bay Ray
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see play at all 30 stadiums I decided
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that I would just kind of scratch those
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plans completely and just stay here not
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here specifically checking into another
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hotel I don't really want to get on a
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plane today been flying so much you've
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been following along over the past few
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months or more the last month or so has
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been probably the most hectic as far as
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travel goes just trying to knock off
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weird little things that I want to do
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that are really unimportant to everyone
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else but myself bouncing around dealing
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with you know delayed flights cancel
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flights flights changing stressing out
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on not making certain things I just kind
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of don't want to get on a plane today so
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I'm going to stick around Orange County
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for a little bit and I'll be here
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throughout the rest of the month and
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into early September I'm inviting you to
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join me there's a lot on the horizon but
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not today today I'm just kind of winging
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it Orange County day no
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flying kind of happy I'm not I'm not
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flying out today kind of happy not to be
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going to an airport join me shall you I
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know it seems a little ridiculous to be
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gone from home for that amount of time
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but I had planned on being being gone
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for a couple months and just home a few
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days just to recoup but I don't really
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know if it makes sense to recoup but
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dealing with the stress of getting back
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there to and fro also another little
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footnote into this supposed to be going
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to LAX and I don't know if I would have
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even made it because my key fob is not
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working my Ral car which is right over
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there will not work so I'm gonna have to
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go down see if I can find I think the
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battery on this and I don't know if they
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have anything here to Disneyland hotel
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to change the battery out or if it even
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is the battery last night when I parked
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back up
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here it was working fine but now I can't
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even get in the car and the car will not
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do anything it won't open it won't turn
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on the alarm won't
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work nothing happens trunk won't open so
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I think the key fob needs replacing so
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if i' have been stressing about trying
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to get to LAX I feel like like this is a
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sign this this is definitely a sign I
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don't need to be dealing with flying
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today I hav much try to go replace this
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battery if they have one really good
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thing is the other Hotel I'm checking in
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is over on Harbor again I was going to
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go do some stuff around town but if for
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some reason so there's an air
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conditioner unit there for some reason
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can't get the car open and I have to get
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a hold of the rental car company to come
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fix it if it's not the key fob issue at
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least I could just go through the resort
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walk down Harbor do a little walk go
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check into my hotel don't really have to
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have the
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car at this moment I just kept the
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rental car for the duration of my trip
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extended the rental car as well so
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extended some hotels extended some
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rental cars cancel some flights cancel
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the flight one way back to MCO and then
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one I was supposed to take from MCO back
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here on the 21st so that's a lot going
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on if you're going to be stuck somewhere
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also this is this is the walkway I take
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to up to top of the parking structure if
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you're going to be stuck somewhere this
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is definitely a good area to you know
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going from one hotel and I'm just going
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to be going a couple blocks away to the
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other Hotel I would imagine the valet
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area even though I'm not on a even
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though I'm not going to airport I'm
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still going on a lot of escalators I
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would imagine they'll have a battery for
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a key fob or they could help me out all
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right big thanks to bell services the
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valet Services the very kind cast
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members that are working here tried to
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assist me me so first I went to the desk
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here at the Disneyland Hotel they said
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you can check the gift shop the gift
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shop doesn't have them you can possibly
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instacart one or something like that and
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have it delivered I said oh it's not
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that big of a deal I'm not in a huge
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rush now now if I would have been
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dealing with this and trying to get to
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LAX now I would be so stressed so I'm
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glad I made that decision before even
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knowing that the car that is parked up
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here I have no access to get it in it so
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they are holding my bags here I'm going
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to walk over to Harbor Boulevard I'm
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going to find a battery hopefully
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somewhere now they did the the bell
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services did attempt to find one into
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into their storage area in the back they
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were very very helpful it's been about
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15 20 minutes looking through their
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stuff in the in the back to try to find
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one they did not have the specific size
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but they said if there's an issue with
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my car I have to have my car out of here
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by midnight tonight that's included with
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the DVC stay that I stayed at they said
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if there's an issue with that you got to
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keep it longer that's totally fine so
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what I'm going to do is leave from here
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and I'm going to walk around I don't
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really want to go through the
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checkpoints and all that so I'm going to
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bypass Downtown Disney and I'm going to
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go find a battery but since I have no
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real plans and I have to check into the
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other and also since I'm staying on
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Harbor once I get over to Harbor and my
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bags are safe cuz I can't put the bags
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on the in the trunk they're safe but
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bell services then I'll just come back
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over later get my bags if I could check
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in the hotel early that I know I'm
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locked in
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yeah wow that's really weird how I just
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put me staying into the universe and
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then the car won't will will not open I
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don't know why they only gave me one key
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fob too usually they give you two but
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it's very nice to know that no matter
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what happens my bags are good the car is
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fine up there and I don't need a car
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because I'm staying in a three or four
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block radius
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so no Str I'd be stressing so much if I
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was trying to get to LAX right now on a
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time crft I'd be stressing so much if I
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was supposed to leave at 1 check out was
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at
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11: yeah that would be stressing no
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stress right now everything's good
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doesn't look as if the montre rail is
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running today I went to Disneyland
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yesterday the montre rail is under
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construction hav a walk down this road
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in a while I get some steps in today
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there goes a garbage truck walking
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around one of the ears of the Hidden
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Mickey here on Disneyland Drive the
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backside of DCA Disney California
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Adventure just it's just so interesting
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how quickly well I'm I'm super impulsive
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anyway I don't really have any major
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reason to be home over you know the next
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week had already planned on going home
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and then coming back yeah this is a big
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Hidden Mickey this is a a Mickey ear
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over there this is a Mickey ear here
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pointed out a few days ago the other
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side is walking over there heading to D
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hard believe d23 and my 50th birthday
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have come and
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gone what they
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have but they have also kind of decided
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not to make so many proclamations about
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what I want to do on a at a time period
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from point A to point B I'm just going
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to stop making promises to myself and to
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everyone into
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the throwing things out into the
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universe into the internet Universe I
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just need to just go with the flow more
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instead of trying to do a distinct like
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this is what I'm going to do this is
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what I'm going to do making you know
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saying all that I did the fit by 50 I'm
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definitely not as fit as I wanted to be
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but I'm also not as fat as I used to be
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so I think think I'm a happy medium I'm
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content with what I did did not lose
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what I wanted to do did not work out as
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much as I thought I wanted to do now I
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can make excuses all day long about
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traveling and that is part of the reason
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it's hard to eat healthy when you're on
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the road but to be honest there's gyms
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at every hotel that I stay at and
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there's health food
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everywhere is a little difficult when
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you are out with you know friends and
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things and they want to everyone wants
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to go out and eat easier when I'm by
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myself but do not want to make those
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excuses that's all on me thought I would
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be a little little thinner than I am
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right now but again pretty content I can
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get up and look in the mirror and not be
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disappointed which in the past I have
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been and I've created some good habits
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for myself that I rarely I would say
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nine times out of 10 I do not eat
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desserts do not drink soda and do not
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eat fried food those are the three
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things I pretty much cut out on except
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for rare rare exceptions so I feel good
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I feel really good Feeling Good by 50
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probably should have been better than
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fit I don't know if I'll ever be fit but
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I am definitely not as unhealthy as I
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used to be but I got to stop making
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those proclamations so I'm I'm going to
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try to try to stick to that in my in my
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year after my 50th birthday so anyway
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just kind of thinking out loud as I'm
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walking here in the shade which is which
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is nice it's a little warm today ah
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Anaheim I lived in Anaheim for 3 years
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corner of hter or hter I never knew how
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to pronounce it is it haser or hter in
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Orange Wood over by the little skate
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park over there about a mile from Angel
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stadium and a mile from Disneyland I
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used to walk these streets all the time
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ride a bike around these streets all the
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time it's almost kind of like I am still
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by Coastal except I don't have a place
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here I just get hotels here and I have a
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house in
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celebration which is another weird thing
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buy a house and never there I was there
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for the first few months when I bought
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it the beginning of this year and the
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last year but
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now always on the go and the way I look
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at it is I have that forever you know
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it's
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it's always there when I need it so just
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can go back whenever and you never know
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what the future holds next year is going
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to be all International next year will
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be less stuff that you've seen before
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going to be completely changing things
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up a little a bit and going completely
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International I want to do a lot of
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countries a lot of countries that a lot
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of people don't realize I will probably
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be going to they probably have something
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in their head Adam's going to be going
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to these places first but in reality
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going to be throwing things for a little
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a little bit of a loop which is going to
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be nice to kind of rejuvenate rejuvenate
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myself but the house will always be
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there years from now if I stop traveling
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I stop doing this stop getting an
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inkling for being away from home I'll
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always have that to kind of just ink
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into there so it was a good decision
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that's that's if anyone was asking that
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question that's that's the answer oh
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you're California
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screaming can hear California well in
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credit coaster I keep calling it
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California screaming
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yeah it's pretty wild
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d23 time flies so freaking fast the
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older you
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get so fast was looking forward to that
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for so long and now it's just it's gone
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it's done it's over so I just walked
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past this spot it's a gentleman over
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here who set his shoes on
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fire I was going to go alert someone he
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was telling everybody I walked past him
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he told everybody he was going to burn
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this air
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down had his shoes on fire there's a
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little clip I out on my
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phone see right there he's burning his
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shoes like why is he burning his shoes
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and the lady was like oh he's he uh he's
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making a a bold statement that that fire
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is going to spread so evidently Anaheim
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PD not did not take kindly to that yeah
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right over there is the backside of
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Radiator Springs Racers I've always
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wanted to stay at that place next to the
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rental car place you got the Alpine end
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right there I've always wanted to stay
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there so I got a little coffee from The
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Coffee Bean I've actually gotten coffee
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here a few times in the last week or so
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couple times before d23 and
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now pretty good
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coffee pretty good coffee coffee bean
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tea and leaf got a Walgreens across the
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way over there and also bus going by CVS
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where the bus stop cuz that's a CVS you
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got a Walgreens and a CVS side by side I
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opted for CVS over on that side and
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ended up getting a 2450 battery it was
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hard to pry this thing back open as well
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but the nice associate here at the CVS
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had a little tool I didn't have a key or
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anything to pry it open so I was using
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my fingernail thought I was going to pop
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my fingernail off so finishing up my
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coffee going to put this in see what
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happens there's also a rental car place
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over
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there that wor case later if I can't get
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the thing working maybe I can switch the
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riddle car out there it's the same ridle
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car company that I got out of John way
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when I picked it up so I'll be fine no
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matter what just it's all part of the
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experience Russ key
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fob replaced I don't know if the battery
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was the issue now I could get all the
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way back over to the Disneyland Hotel
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and find out that the battery was not
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the problem maybe the key fob it's a fun
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word to say ke fob is not working but
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set I'm right over here I think I'm
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going to go ahead and see if I can check
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in the hotel I'm going to be staying at
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tonight over
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here there's Castle in in Suites which
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I've never stayed at there's also this
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hotel that I have seen many many times
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passed by it more times than I can count
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but I never stayed at it so I booked a
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room here the Anaheim Hotel really close
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to
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Disneyland I almost tripped on the Curve
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there not a curb but a little
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indentation of the sidewalks but
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carrying on yeah so I'm going to cross
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over at the crosswalk and see if I can
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check in now without a car also have
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General layout of the lands here
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actually I got it backwards flip around
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this
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way on all the street
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corners cash shuttle going by over there
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and also the regular bus yeah I don't
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know why I've never stayed
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here I parked here before they used to I
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don't know about now but they used to
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let you park here for a fee and you
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could just instead of parking in the
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parking structure at Disney you could
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park here pay a
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fee and go over to the park I don't know
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if they still do
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that they might they probably do the
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Anaheim
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Hotel the Anaheim
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Hotel right here off Harbor Boulevard
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all right that's kind of nice you have
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the lettering on the ground there kind
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of a retro vibe in here all right just
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did something called pre-check in gave
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him the color of the car I didn't have
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the license plate number because I don't
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have the car with me could not check in
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but they are going to alert me later
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when I'm available to check in so not
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checking in yet but just kind of
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perusing around I think I'm going to
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walk through downtown Disney maybe go I
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don't know if I'm going to go in the
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park but I might pop through World of
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Disney and then cross through there and
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then get back over to the Disneyland
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Hotel and attempt to see if this key fob
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now that it has a new battery in it
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works and then check in here get my key
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later when they get a hold of me
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incredibly close so hotel right here
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they flip this around you can see that's
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how close the park is I got 30 seconds
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to cross the road here let's go over to
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Toy Story parking Incredibly Close not
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as close as Tropicana which I stayed out
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recently but still pretty dang close and
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pretty reasonable in the grand scheme of
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things I think it's honestly closer to
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staying at the Disneyland Hotel getting
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into the park it's the espod is just
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right over
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there the center point between DCA and
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Disney also the flight
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that I had booked that I ended up
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canceling is leaving in like 7 or 8
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minutes I definitely would not have made
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it in time I would have been a stressed
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mess attempting
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to would have landed at 11: p.m. Florida
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time with the 3-hour time difference and
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the layover in Atlanta but it's pretty
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much probably on the tarmac now ready to
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take off and here I am still in Anaheim
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and haven't even got back to the car so
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yeah think I made the right decision
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sometimes you can catch the monil going
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by this beam right along
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Harbor but not now the mon rail is not
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running usually goes along
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there one thing that's interesting too
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different than Florida is right I guess
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technically on property but not on
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property this guy's got a bunch of pins
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right here a pin
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trading see what he's
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got there a t right there how you doing
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man look at the little
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sh right there see any Disney pens oh
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look at these I can get some of these
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for my
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Crocs there's a little ET how much are
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these uh much might get a little
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ET my
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Crocs Mickey all right Anaheim pins I
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didn't get any pins
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but
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yeah still wearing the Crocs now I'm
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going to add a couple more couple more
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more to the
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Crocs two of them $2 each yeah I just
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put in quite a few steps walking around
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the perimeter of the resort then back
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through it to go over to Harbor
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Boulevard to get my pre-check in going
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on but the whole reason was to walk over
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and get the battery and cross my fingers
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that that solves the issue if it doesn't
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that's going to be uh more of an issue
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more of a more of a mess
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but again crossing my fingers that uh
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that's all it was was a simple was it
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$10 battery something like that simple
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10 $10 thing now it's sinking into my
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head what would happen if it doesn't
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solve the problem also notice the speed
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limit 14 M an hour where's it at 14 M
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hour right here through the Disneyland
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Resort which is interesting cuz I went
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to the Disney Studios a few days ago in
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Burbank there's his 8 mph you might be
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asking why would they have 14 M an hour
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why would they have 8 m an hour and the
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reason I believe I heard this and it
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kind of confirmed it in my own mind once
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I had heard that fact or rumor is the
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fact that or the statement that if it's
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not a a basic number like 15 or 20 you
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will remember it more if it says 14 or 8
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you see this you go oh wait we going too
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fast 14 it sticks in your head more than
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15 or 20 or 10 cuz you don't see it as
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often or eight at the studios that was
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probably the worst
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explanation pretty part for the course
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but me try to explain things but yeah
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you get it you get
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it all right have made the circle
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around let's see if this key
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works also you don't have to twist my
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arm to stay here either because it is
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87° which is a little warm for here but
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there's really no humidity in comparison
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to Florida look at this all
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sunny
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versus 993 right now in celebration
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isolated
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thunderstorms definitely a little warmer
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that 93 probably feels like
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103 and isolated thunderstorms where the
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weather here it's pretty much perfect
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it's a little warmer than perfect but
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definitely not as hot as Florida is
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right
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now not real big on Florida Summers I
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know I bought a house there but yeah
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doesn't mean I have to be there doesn't
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mean I have to like it in the summer
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Moment of
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Truth Moment of
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Truth see what
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happens got the newly batteried key
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fob oh
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no oh
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no it didn't
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work it doesn't
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help you got to be crapping me all that
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and it doesn't
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work
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God
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unbelievable unbel thank goodness this
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is happening on a day I don't have any
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active things happening due to the
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decisions I made so now I'm thinking
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guess I should probably call real car
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company and have them figure out what
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they want to do thankfully there is
20:56
nothing in the car that I need the one
20:58
thing in there is a power charger so I
21:00
could live without thankfully I don't
21:02
have anything in the car that is a
21:04
necessity to me continuing on with the
21:07
rest of this
21:08
trip
21:16
s p
21:16
push oh my goodness
21:20
what kind of a
21:22
mess it kind of makes me not ever want
21:24
to rent a car and just Uber everywhere
21:26
so basically what's going to happen is
21:29
called the rental car company and they
21:32
have alerted that they cannot do
21:33
anything so they said check the key fob
21:36
if you have the key fob and once you
21:38
have the key fob in your hand now that
21:39
you've replaced the battery does it
21:42
light up green so I was testing it on
21:45
the phone it does light up green so you
21:47
see here at the Bas base of it it is
21:49
lighting up which means the connection
21:51
to the key fob is the problem not the
21:55
battery now I don't even know if buying
21:57
a battery even helped with that so then
21:59
they said there's nothing we can do to
22:03
fix the problem so we're going to hi
22:05
we're going to call a tow truck company
22:07
which is going to come out and tow the
22:09
car once the car is towed let us know
22:11
and we'll either figure out another car
22:14
or just not to have a car the problem
22:16
is my rental car is parked up here on
22:19
the top of the convention center section
22:21
of the Disneyland Hotel so now the tow
22:24
truck company called and one guy from
22:26
the tow truck company is going to come
22:27
in here and somehow get the car out of
22:29
here without having a tow truck pull it
22:32
down the side of this because the tow
22:33
truck is taller than 7 ft and then
22:35
they're going to take the car away and
22:38
then I get back back with the rental car
22:42
company and I can either get another
22:44
rental car from the place over on
22:45
catella or just do without a rental car
22:50
for the rest of the tenure while I'm
22:51
here in just Uber I know that's a lot to
22:53
process that's a lot of lot to process
22:55
for me too trust me
22:59
can you imagine if I was that and they
23:01
said I said can I just leave and they
23:03
can handle it cuz they have the
23:04
information I said no you need to be
23:06
there you got to give the guy the key
23:07
fob do all that imagine if I had a
23:09
freaking flight
23:17
today oh man anyway it's it's getting
23:17
handled it's getting handled now I've
23:18
already paid for parking over at the
23:20
Anaheim Hotel thinking I was going to
23:21
get this fixed and it's a simple
23:24
solution so I do have a parking spot
23:26
over at the Anaheim Hotel
23:32
so I'm waiting on the one guy to drag
23:32
the car out of the parking structure and
23:34
then I'm waiting for another tow truck
23:35
driver to take the car away and then I
23:37
got to get back a hold of the rental car
23:44
company I just explained to bell
23:44
services what was going on just so
23:45
they're not caught off guard by any
23:47
Towing that's happening place off the
23:49
roof and anything like that again
23:51
Disneyland hotel bell services has been
23:53
very very very helpful I kind of wish I
23:55
would have just called immediately and I
23:57
didn't even check to see if the green
23:58
thing was aluminated I might not have
24:00
even needed to go get the battery for
24:02
the key fop but I did you know better
24:04
help the check I'd rather take care of
24:05
something myself before having to go
24:08
through a whole process so I wanted to
24:11
make sure that that was a you know try
24:13
to make sure that was the the problem
24:15
first and foremost before taking care of
24:17
it but so what I'm thinking about doing
24:19
is just have them take the car away
24:21
calling Alamo having them cancel the
24:22
contract and then just not have a car
24:25
for the rest of my time here so I'm
24:27
pretty much going to be bouncing between
24:29
Orange County LA County the you know
24:32
Hollywood area and then back here during
24:35
the the rest of this trip so I could
24:36
probably just not have a car and it be
24:39
it save me a little bit on parking at
24:40
places too until they get here I'm just
24:42
going to Mosey around the Disneyland
24:45
Hotel again I got my uh got my new
24:48
little little jibit down there on the
24:51
the
24:52
croag and obviously I can't I about
24:54
probably take an Uber once I get once
24:56
the thing towed off I'll take an Uber
24:57
from here I know if I want to walk with
24:59
the bags all the way back over to Harbor
25:00
but you know what maybe I will after all
25:02
that and as I'm waiting patiently I
25:04
figured you know what I could probably
25:06
use a second piping hot caffinated
25:08
beverage so I'm just sitting here
25:10
enjoying it next to the Fountain there
25:13
see if they're going to be able to get
25:14
the car off the roof again I have no no
25:17
issues it's just kind of like a life
25:18
thing there really is nothing you can do
25:20
the rental car company has been been
25:22
using the same rental car company Alamo
25:23
for many many years never had any major
25:26
issues one or two but the amount of
25:27
times I've used them this is just kind
25:30
of like one of those freak instances
25:32
that just uh it's out of everyone's
25:34
control so the only thing it is kind of
25:36
confusing on why I kind of need to wait
25:37
around but you know what what else do I
25:40
have to do one thing I am grateful of is
25:41
there's nothing important to mind in the
25:43
car so no matter what if they can't get
25:45
in the car they can't get me into the
25:47
car I could live without the charger but
25:49
if I had my bags in the car and they tow
25:51
it away they I wouldn't be able to get
25:53
in I guess they could always kind of
25:54
like use a tool to open the door but
25:57
yeah thankful there's nothing in the car
25:59
so that was that's a blessing all right
26:00
this is really really interest so okay
26:03
the toach TR company just called me they
26:04
said we I need to be by the car they
26:06
said Disney security needs me by the car
26:08
to give permission so they could tow the
26:10
car which is kind of nice that they are
26:12
actually going to need me there so
26:14
they're just not going to let a random
26:16
tow truck driver into tow away a car so
26:18
I got to go run up to the roof and meet
26:20
them up there and then give them
26:22
permission to take the car away and now
26:23
I'm up here and no one's up here I also
26:26
just retouched the key fob to see I
26:29
don't look like an idiot when they get
26:30
up here and all a sudden the key fob
26:31
works but the key fob still doesn't
26:33
work so I'm not seeing a tow truck
26:36
driver or security guard with
26:38
them also look over
26:41
there see the matter horn off in the
26:50
distance tow guy said he's going to be
26:50
escorted from over I said do I need to
26:52
go up to the front he goes no they're
26:54
going to escort me in to the top
27:01
also is that a Hidden Mickey in a kind
27:01
of way it's not really but a kind of
27:04
it's like a misshaped Hidden
27:13
Mickey so they're giving the driver an
27:13
escort I don't know where he is is that
27:16
him no one thing's for sure I always
27:18
have a different perspective of parking
27:20
up here on this roof see you think it
27:22
would be like the most simplest thing
27:24
that has turned into an all day timec
27:27
consuming experience
27:30
but they going to be a to get a tow
27:32
truck up through there I think
27:35
so nice little
27:43
breeze thought they were on their way up
27:43
here but I'm not
27:44
seeing anyone on the roof and I'm not
27:48
seeing anyone pulling through the gates
27:49
down
27:51
there no escorts being had
28:07
it's been about 10 or 12 minutes since
28:07
he called and said he was at the front
28:09
gate told him I'll be up there in 2
28:11
minutes it's been a while but now I'm
28:14
standing over in the shade right here
28:16
cuz it's very hot out in the
28:24
sun I mean it's been 10 15
28:24
minutes wonder if there's an issue
28:27
letting them in
28:33
I think that might be him and there's
28:46
security all right turns out that they
28:46
have Disneyland security has their own
28:51
kit so the guy this here couldn't get in
28:53
so now Disneyland Security's going to
28:56
get us in the car
28:59
what this is interesting so tow truck
29:01
company sent this guy he's trying to get
29:04
in the car he he said basically okay I'm
29:06
going to get the car started for you I'm
29:07
going to get in the car and then you're
29:08
going to drive the car down to the
29:09
bottom SE section security said well I
29:12
have a I have a get in the car kit I
29:14
could have done that but I couldn't get
29:15
the thing started so this guy could not
29:17
get in the car so then the security guy
29:19
is like hey if I have your permission
29:21
Adam's permission I can get you in the
29:22
car so that's what they're doing now
29:24
they're getting me in the car then I got
29:25
to drive it to the bottom level then I
29:26
got to give permission for the to tow it
29:28
let the security know that they have
29:29
permission cuz they won't let anybody on
29:31
the lot that is not not supposed to be
29:33
here so security definitely uh on point
29:36
here yeah this is a whole process this
29:38
has been going on for like 4 hours
29:39
already it's 300
29:51
p.m. there it
29:51
is all that to go 20 ft down to the
29:54
bottom
29:58
level all right the car car is started
29:58
they had to manually jump it off they
30:00
had
30:02
to pry the door open through a little
30:04
tool that the security had and now he's
30:07
following me down to show me where to
30:09
park and
30:10
supposedly once I get it down to the
30:12
ground level it's going to
30:20
be all done from my end and then they're
30:20
going to send the tow truck
30:22
out very nice security guard talk for a
30:25
little bit very sharp turn tow truck
30:28
would have a hard time getting up
30:30
here I'm getting an
30:37
escort is letting me know we're going to
30:37
go all the way to the end that
30:41
way there's plenty of space for the tow
30:43
trucks to get in here and tow it away
30:47
and then I'll be done with this
30:50
rental after half a day and then I also
30:53
just call them the rental car company
30:55
later to make sure they
30:58
make sure they came and got the car and
30:59
cancel my rest of
31:04
my all right so here's where the car is
31:04
parked take some uh video and photos
31:06
here to know and then I'm going to call
31:08
rental car company a little bit
31:10
later there's the spot right
31:14
there I guess I'm
31:16
done the stuff I needed also I left the
31:19
windows cracked just in case I need to
31:22
get back in so I parked it here and then
31:23
I thought may I should move it forward a
31:24
little bit tried to crank it again it
31:26
didn't crank because I think it's all
31:27
it's all electric car from what I was
31:29
told nonetheless not my problem anymore
31:32
now I go get my bags and
31:34
start get my bags so it's about 3:15 now
31:38
should by the time I get over to Anaheim
31:40
Hotel be time for the 4 p.m. check-in
31:43
yeah really nice security guard chatt
31:45
with him a while he's been working here
31:46
for well over 10 years and says that uh
31:49
he's got some seen a lot of stuff going
31:52
here at the Disneyland Hotel he goes
31:54
this is nothing compared to some of the
31:56
stuff that's happened over the the time
31:58
he's worked
32:10
here definitely not a lot of shade so
32:10
for future reference from now on when I
32:12
rent cars I'm going to try to not Park
32:14
in
32:19
structures and I hope they come I hope
32:19
the tow truck gets in here comes and
32:20
gets the car he let them know that they
32:23
are on their way and then through that
32:25
little checkpoint they will be allowed
32:26
in to get it
32:32
yeah they keep a close eye over this
32:32
place which is really really great that
32:34
they just don't let anybody in here tow
32:36
away a
32:38
car keep those Repo Men out no amelo
32:42
Estes is
32:44
allowed well I mean him the characters
32:47
he plays I mean Amelia has probably
32:48
stayed here and probably accepted but
32:50
yeah this is one of the reasons I love
32:51
doing daily
32:54
videos just because this stuff is kind
32:56
of fun to document even though what's
32:58
really aggravating and stressful would
33:00
have been way more stressful if I had a
33:03
serious agenda I like that they are
33:06
utilizing a word I always utilize in the
33:08
word of
33:10
utilize I use the word utilize a lot of
33:13
utilize the word utilize quite a
33:16
bit oh there's an underground valet
33:18
section check take a look at that that's
33:20
cool all right I think I'm going to Uber
33:21
over to Anaheim Hotel and I'm hoping
33:23
that's the end of this particular story
33:28
I if they do get over here with the tow
33:30
truck hope I don't find out in a day or
33:32
two that the car's still sitting
33:34
here but I'm going to call I'm going
33:36
call Alo a little bit later and make
33:39
sure it's all dialed in or in the
33:42
morning probably later but in the in the
33:44
morning it might work too make sure they
33:45
got it I thought about taking an Uber
33:47
but you know what I think I might just
33:49
walk it got a little time got a little
33:52
time I got nothing but time today
33:55
and I'm hoping that that
33:58
is now solved and the tow truck shows up
33:59
when they get it we'll keep you
34:05
posted that's the wheels on my suitcase
34:05
going along this
34:12
brick I still need to St to Pixar Place
34:12
Hotel one of these
34:14
days cross over here see if I can get a
34:19
View California or credit Co I call want
34:22
to call California screaming right up
34:24
there as long as you can see the ride
34:26
vehicle go across all waiting for the
34:28
light to turn here at Disneyland way to
34:30
let walk
34:32
across where are you at ride
34:35
vehicle where you at don't let me hang
34:38
in don't let me hang in ride vehicle
34:40
where you going let's see what happens
34:42
here we go where's it at where's it at
34:46
where's it
34:47
at where you at
34:49
right where are you
34:56
at usually one goes across the top
34:56
there there it is there it is there it
35:04
is was trying
35:04
to analyze in my brain what I would have
35:07
done if I did have that 1 pm flight out
35:10
of the LAX would I have just left the
35:12
car there they said I had to wait around
35:14
for that to be resolved would I have
35:16
waited or my stubborn self would I have
35:19
just left the car there and just ubered
35:21
to LAX go yeah you guys deal with it
35:24
thankfully I didn't have to I didn't
35:25
have to cross that scenario
35:29
n n to do that because I stayed here so
35:31
it worked out it worked out well again
35:34
it was just kind of one of those things
35:35
it just happens it wasn't anyone's real
35:37
fault just you never know technology is
35:40
a is a weird thing and sometimes things
35:42
malfunction and don't don't don't
35:44
operate correctly but I can assure you
35:47
my attitude would probably be slightly
35:49
more stressed if I had not made the
35:51
decision to just stay here in Anaheim
35:53
and try to get the flight home I would
35:56
have been little bit different attitude
35:58
about the situation so glad I made that
36:00
decision it worked out okay everything
36:03
works out
36:04
okay most
36:29
time that right there is the sounds of
36:29
Anaheim in every way got to get a couple
36:31
things for hotel that I need personal
36:35
items I'm not heading
36:37
home I think I've been gone a month I
36:40
was planning on being home for a week
36:42
and then out again for another 5 6 weeks
36:45
but now that weekl long lull between the
36:49
month into another month has now been
36:51
co-joined so now that means I'm going to
36:53
be gone for what 2 and a half months or
36:55
something so the other 7-Eleven that's
36:57
up a block that way past the Toy Story
36:59
parking up another block closed down
37:02
there used to be two of them and I had
37:04
heard a rumor years ago that this was
37:05
one of the busiest 7-Elevens in the US
37:08
but I never really fact checked that or
37:10
even knew that that was the case but I
37:12
can see maybe back before there was a
37:13
lot of other businesses around here that
37:16
you could get little supplies while
37:17
going to Disneyland but I'm going to pop
37:19
in here and just get a couple things for
37:21
the room that I need they also used to
37:24
play classical music at loud volumes to
37:26
keep people from loitering over over
37:27
here but they don't play the classical
37:29
music anymore now they have this thing
37:31
which every once in a while will bark
37:33
out the fact that everything is being
37:35
filmed and recorded so evidently they
37:39
had an issue with the classical music
37:40
being played at loud volumes to keep
37:42
from the loitering and now they just
37:43
have this thing instead to watch the
37:46
area the
37:47
cameras I walked past it the other day
37:50
and it alerted it said it was like in a
37:52
robotic voice this area being monitored
37:55
and recorded for your safety there's
37:57
also the a market next
37:59
door for whatever reason has a
38:03
lot of license
38:17
plates hey I'm ready to get into the
38:18
room they were supposed to alert me if I
38:20
could get an early check in I never got
38:21
alerted it's about 4:00 which is the
38:24
normal check-in time
38:33
deja
38:33
vu tja vu I go back up to the counter
38:36
alert them that I do not have a car now
38:38
so I think they charge me to have a car
38:40
here for the tenure of my stay and just
38:42
let them know I don't have a car anymore
38:44
it's already
38:46
4:36 so my flight would have been in the
38:49
air 3 hours and my flight is in the air
38:51
3 hours and 30 minutes
38:57
already but I've been here dealing with
38:57
the car thing not that it really made
38:59
any difference because I had already
39:01
changed the plans beforehand but again
39:03
very
39:04
thankful that I had made that CU I would
39:06
have been very very stressed there a
39:08
nice little piece of art here look at
39:11
this a cute little place I've never
39:13
stayed here
39:14
before never stayed here before I got a
39:17
coffee machine nice little lamps little
39:20
guest
39:26
directory yeah big rooms too big rooms
39:26
big beds
39:31
I'm going to relax a little
39:31
bit I'll be around SoCal for a while
39:35
I'll see you in the next video the Vlog
39:36
thanks for watching is over