The "Larry" Story

It was another ordinary day. We had just had breakfast at Calico Jack's for the third day in a row. Great food and fantastic waitresses. Calico Jack's is located in Providenciales on the island of Caicos. Perfect vacation spot. The "we" is Jerry, Just Sue, Carol and I. We have decided that we need a car. Too many things to see and do on the island so we really need a car. We get to talking to one of the waitresses and ask her who would be the best person to rent from. It's always nice to rent from locals when you have the chance. She tells us that she will call her boyfriend who is in construction and ask him. A short time later she tells us her boyfriend will be here in a minute and take us to a place to rent a car. OK! Well, I guess we just have to trust her. Sure enough, he arrives and Jerry and I hop in and he takes off for the rental agency. Five minutes later he pulls into a small, local place and takes us to the office. He tells the manager to give us his contractor's price and takes off. OK! The manager gives us a really great price and shows us to our car. All cars have names at his rental place and this car is named "Claude". Car is white, steering wheel on the left and name painted on the hood of the car. OK! He goes over the car with us and circles on the contract all the marks and dents. Takes several minutes, since this is a really used car. Good service to go with the great price. We're ready to go. We start to exit the rental place when all of a sudden I slam on the brakes and put the car in reverse. Jerry looks at me like I'm crazy. He is always saying I drive like a maniac. "What are you doing?" he asks me. "Let's change cars," I tell him. "Why? What's the matter with this one?" he responds. I point to a shiny blue one and say, "cause that one has "Larry" painted on the hood. It's not everywhere you can get a car named after you." It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy.