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Originally Posted by onesnowyowl
Or else have a credit card you can use in emergencies. This happened to me last spring break--car breaks down in Santa Cruz last day of the trip, we have to get home, so we had to rent a car and drive back to Oregon, leaving the car in Santa Cruz.
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Hah; I live in Santa Cruz, and I'm glad you brought a card; plenty of others don't, and I've seen them spare-changing for car parts or car repair to get back where they came from, or abandoning a car they couldn't afford to have fixed with some mechanic and thumbing it back home.
Used to live next door to a sleazy mechanic who'd buy stricken cars off stranded travelers for little or nothing, then fix them up for sale in his spare time. Not a nice guy. Liked to take advantage of students and surfers.