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[quote=Anonymous]I have some relatives who live in Appalachia. We visited them earlier this summer. We met in a city about 2 hours from where they live, and 7 hours from where we live. We took them out to lunch and caught up.

Then we each start driving back. About 45 minutes into our drive, I get a tearful call from the mother (it was mother in her 50's and daughter in her late 20's) that she lost her debit card, and is at the gas station and can't buy gas to make the drive home. Between the two of them, they had $4 in cash. No credit cards since neither would qualify. One works a part-time job, and the other works a factory job on the night shift.

So we drove back and gave them cash to buy gas to get home. What burned me up about this 1.5 hour detour is that the daughter was drinking a freshly-purchased Mountain Dew (I mention the brand only because MD is super-popular there.. no idea why, but almost everyone drinks it). Now, if you're low on cash, why pay convenience store prices for a drink, instead of buying a 12-pack at home and throw it in a cooler? That's how we were traveling -- cooler in car with drinks we bought at home from the grocery store.

Turns out the mother had $72 on her debit card, and had stopped at an ATM at home to check her balance, and forgot the card in the machine.

Of course, both she and her daughter smoke and I have no idea how much cigarettes cost, but it can't be that cheap.
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