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Ottawa senior says he was denied a car rental because he was 'too old' (ottawa.ctvnews.ca)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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"I stepped up to the counter to pick up my car and they said, 'You're over 74, You can't have a car,'" he said.

What he missed was in the fine print of Routes Car Rentals' Rules and Restrictions page in Travelocity. In the "Merchant Rules" section, it notes an upper age limit of 74 years of age for local renters...

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

This is extremely sad. I know it’s easy to brush it off as ‘the olds getting a taste of their own medicine’ or whatever, since we’re almost all too young here to really think about it, but this treatment must have been humiliating for that man. He is of sound mind and has done nothing wrong, yet has been deemed unfit to participate in a normal part of society almost arbitrarily.