Once, I was in LA and rented a car from Avis. While I had the car, I got Covid. This was in 2021 so Covid rules were still quite strict. I had to quarantine and couldn’t return the car. I called them and offered for a friend to return the car for me but they insisted they had to come tow it and decontaminate it. The reason I was in LA was for our first big LA party, which I had been planning for a long time, and it was my first time getting Covid, so it was already a very stressful situation. They insisted that’s all they could do and I didn’t need to worry. Two months later they called me and said they were just getting the car back after 2 months so they had to charge me thousands of dollars. I told them that they had the car towed two months prior and they told me I was lying and that I had kept the car for two months, even though I was no longer even in LA. After two days on the phone arguing with people, I kept getting transferred to other people and all of them insisted I was lying about the whole situation and that I had the car this entire time, which didn’t make any sense. I eventually reported the charge of thousands of dollars as fraud and closed the credit card. I then took out a new credit card, and a little while later, they somehow managed to charge the new card thousands of dollars again. I don’t even understand how that’s possible. It took weeks of arguing on the phone with them and eventually the charge just disappeared, even though everyone I talked to this second time around still implied I was lying up until the bitter end and never backed down. By the time the saga was finally over, it was months after my trip to LA. I was so angry about it I swore to myself right then and there that I would find a way to air out this petty grievance in a public forum, and inspire the masses to take a stand and never rent from Avis. When Tyler asked me to do another Perfectly Imperfect, this was the first thing my mind went to. If you really want to help my cause, every time you see an Avis Car Rental at an airport or whatever go up to the desk and say you will never rent a car from them because of Curtis Everett Pawley.
