If you walk on the pavement you'll get run over.
Never allow your 7 year old daughter to follow you into a petrol station and ask, very loudly, Daddy ask if they sell rubbers, you wore mine out last night.
Also, in the US, it is car rental, not car hire. I caused some confusion in the Avis office at Chicago airport a few years ago, enquiring about my hire car:
"Huh? Your car isn't high enough?"