Story | The worst car hire service
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| The Worst Car Hire Service | O pior serviço de aluguel de carros |
| When David Schwartz left university in 1972, he set up Rent-a-wreck as a joke. | Quando David Schwartz deixou a universidade em 1972, ele criou a Rent-a-wreck como uma brincadeira. |
| Being a natural prankster, he acquired a fleet of beat-up shabby, wreckages waiting for the scrap heap in California. | Sendo um brincalhão natural, ele adquiriu uma frota de destroços surrados, carros arruinados à espera de serem enviados para o ferro velho na Califórnia. |
| He put on a cap and looked forward to watching people's faces as he conducted them round the choice of bumperless, dented junkmobiles. | Ele colocou um boné e ficou ansioso para ver os rostos das pessoas enquanto as conduzia por entre o lixo móvel de carros sem para-choque e amassados. |
| To his lasting surprise there was an insatiable demand for them and he now has 26 thriving branches all over America. | Para sua surpresa duradoura, houve uma demanda insaciável por eles e agora ele tem 26 filiais prósperas em toda a América. |
| "People like driving round in the worst cars available," he said. | "As pessoas gostam de dirigir nos piores carros disponíveis", disse ele. |
| Of course they do. | Claro que sim. |
| If a driver damages the side of a car and is honest enough to admit it, I tell him, "Forget it". | Se um motorista danifica a lateral de um carro e é honesto o suficiente para admitir, eu digo a ele: "Esqueça". |
| If they bring a car back late we overlook it. | Se eles devolverem o carro fora do prazo, nós não nos incomodamos. |
| If they've had a crash and it doesn't involve another vehicle we might overlook that too. | Se eles tiverem um acidente que não envolva outro veículo, podemos ignorar isso também. |
| "Where's the ashtray?" asked a Los Angeles wife, as she settled into the ripped interior. | "Onde está o cinzeiro?" perguntou uma esposa de Los Angeles, enquanto ela se acomodava no interior rasgado. |
| "Honey," said her husband, "the whole car's the ash tray." | "Querida", disse o marido, "o carro todo é o cinzeiro." |
| Stephen Pile, "The Book of Heroic Failures" | Stephen Pile, "O Livro das Falhas Heroicas" |
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