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Originally Posted by GoldenRivet
does the man have a mother or a father? trusted friend or neighbor? aunt? uncle? brother? sister? cousin? any relatives on the face of the earth?
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Oh he does, they just live 1,000 miles away in the opposite direction. He left them in search of a job in the first place, per your advice.
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its called telling the mechanic your situation, offering to grab a broom, mop, screw driver and wrench or do anything you can to get a break on the bill. Believe it or not, there are folks out there who will let you do this. I've done it once before myself.
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Mechanic: You'll need a new transmission. It'll cost $3,000 and take a week to do.
Mr. Bootstrap: Ok, I only have $100. So can I just help out around the garage to pay it off, even though your own employees would require months to make that much money? Oh, and since all my money is going to the repairs, I'll have to live in my car here at the garage, use your bathroom, and I'll have to dumpster dive out back. Is that cool?
Mechanic: Ummm... no.
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hitch hike for Christ's sake. i remember when I was a kid my dad's truck broke down on a long trip to kentucky to visit my grandparents... we rode in a big rig with a trucker for about 60 miles to the nearest dealership where we could get some kind of help.
whether you can believe it or not, people backpack across europe, they hitch hike across the united states too.
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So, break the law, then? No problem, I guess. I'm sure Mr. Bootstrap can just offer to do odd jobs around the police station to pay off the fine when he's caught.
And Europe is not the US.
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Unlike the more liberal population... I refuse to count any man out as helpless as long as he is willing to help himself!
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Unlike the more conservative population, I refuse to live in a fantasy land.
Maybe the scruffy individualist BS is useful as a sort of golden lie, but that's what it'll remain - a lie.
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yes, reality is complicated - so complicated that JUST LIKE I SAID - this scenario is not for everyone... but it is something that can be done by MOST people 
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But then your caveat at the end seemed to imply that while there are people who can't do this, they are the ones who can't or won't help themselves.