Catch Me If You Can

I bought the movie Catch Me If You Can with Tom Hanks and Leonardo Dicaprio. I saw it in the movie theater and loved it. We at the car rentals don't deal with checks and check fraud, but we deal with licenses and credit cards.

I hate the new Iowa licenses because the addresses is so tiny we need a magnifying glass to read them. But of course the birth date is easy to find in large red numbers. Though I appreaciate that the new Iowa licenses no longer reflect light so badly it blinds us trying to read it. I actually had one girl ask me how we know her real age when I told her a customer must be 21 to rent a car. I answered that it is on her driver's license unless she is telling me it is a fake ID. Only someone under 21 would ask that question.

Though credit cards can be deceiving to the customer. Some car rentals only rent by real credit cards only upfront. People often think if it has a Visa or Mastercard logo that it is a real credit card. Um, no. A REAL credit card is attached to a line of credit of a credit card company that can be forced charged when necessary by the car rental company.
-A gift credit card is NOT a REAL credit card, it is a gift certificate and no car rental at the Des Moines airport will accept it as a credit card because it is not. I have noticed many gift credit cards must be tilted slightly for the "debit" word on the card to appear, otherwise it is camaflouged in the same color as the card.
-Debit/Check cards that are NOT REAL credit cards either. They are attached to bank accounts, not to a line of credit. It does not matter that at the grocery store it can be run as a credit card because all that means is that you do not type in your pin number, the payment still comes from a bank account.
-Lastly, I do not care what your bank or credit card company said to you in their sales pitch, but a Visa or Mastercard logo on your piece of plastic does not make anything a credit card. A line of credit does. Post later. Bye!