Damn straight on the emergency get home fund.
Started long haul trucking at 21, didn't even have a checking account then.
Soon had a credit card with a limit that would buy me a cheap car if need be,
always had several hundred, just in case, and an atm card . I was always determined that no matter where i was, or what my company said, i could get home.
No depending on anyone, i had resources on me, now.
A later job had me working for a company that also did towing off the
Pa Turnpike. Amazing the people that needed a tire or alternator, and couldn't come up with $200. In the middle of a big trip, and barely had adequate gas money. No cash card, no checks, no credit card. Sit in the parking lot for 2 days trying to get repair money, while eating the little cash they had.
Some, I pitied, most where just stupid.
