On my previous writes, about House moving, I mentioned about GoGet car. Maybe some of you never heard about this before. Actually that was also my first time heard about GoGet car.
When we decided to buy furniture from IKEA, we decided to rent a car or van. We’re browsing something on internet about rent a van so we can put in the bulky furniture there.
At first, I was browsing on gumtree, van for rent is about $55-$65 per day. For smaller car, like Hyundai or Corolla is about $20-$40 per day, depend on the car year and model. But, we’re not sure what car rental agent should we choose.
Then, Yan, remembered seeing car parked near our old house neighborhood, in Glebe. It’s Yaris and got GoGet stickered on all over the car body. When he got home from Uni, he saw that same car, parked on the same place for a week, look dirty (because it was raining in Sydney). So, he was wondering why is that car is always there. It looks like no one owned the car. So, he browsing on internet about GoGet, then.. TADAAAAA.. GoGet is a car rental service and also has a van.
You just have to register online and they sent you a member card by mail post. It’s easy to do. But on our experience, since we used it on IKEA store, we got our member card there.
Ooooh… at first they (IKEA staff) wasn’t sure about Yan driving license (His driving license is from Indonesia) because it’s in Bahasa Indonesia, not in English, although under the ‘Surat Ijin Mengemudi’ written ‘Driving License’. So, he told us to call the GoGet staff directly to make sure about this. Then Yan call some guy from GoGet and he told us to send an image of Yan’s driving license through e-mail. And again.. TADAAAAA … he said he can use his driving license, no need to translate it to English.
Yan’s Indonesia Driving License
So, that was our first experienced used the GoGet service, driving a rent van *not just small car*, on a foreign countries, not know about the route *we have faith in Google Maps* *never driving car on our own before* and for sure, with different driving culture.
Looks like I’m very calm when writing this, but in fact, at that actual time, MY STOMACH WAS SICK, I WANNA THROW UP, MY HEARTBEATS FAST, I WAS SWEATING, and my mouth wouldn’t stop mumbling, praying to God to help us through this terrifying driving car experience.
The 45 minutes driving was like 2 hours! Time goes slow when you feeling nervous, and *again* TADAAAAA.. We got home safely. Thanks Lord, our savior.. and also thanks to GoGet.. Really help us on our house moving.. ;*