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Rip Up Your License! 
Debit Cards?
The Saga Continues
Fund Raising
Going Solo?
Credit Card Phishing
Social Networking
Road Trippin'
Ringtone Scams
Pyramid Schemes
$440 Pizza
Road Trippin’
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I decided to hang around the beach and surf every day for the rest of the week. But there was always this little voice in my head saying: “Hey dude, how are you going to get home?”
I thought of so many ways to get money sent to me, but none off them worked. I was in my surf van at a random beach, so how were my friends or parents going to send me money anyway? And another problem came in to play: I had to be back in school in 2 days!
With only 2 dollars and a few cents left, I decided to ask one of my new made friends if he could help me out. He was a French guy I met surfing two days earlier. This "stranger" kindly offered to loan me $100.
This was such a relief, but I was hoping that hundred dollars would be enough to get me home. But I also didn’t dare to ask for any more. After all, would you give a guy you just met on the beach a hundred bucks?
I decided to take my chances and head home… Driving very slowly to conserve gas I pulled up my parents’ driveway some twenty hours later. I drove all 700 miles and had just half a gallon of gas left in my tank… Wow, I just made it!
After getting home I immediately wired the borrowed money back to the French guy. I used my mom’s online banking, which meant the French guy would have the money in his account within a day.
As soon as I had my new bankcard, I withdrew the money and gave my mom back her hundred dollars.
After all this road trippin’ hassle I decided to sign up for online banking myself. You know, just in case.
I even opened another checking account with another card. This way, if I lose one card I will still have the other. Well… That’s if you don’t keep them in the same wallet of course!
Having a checking account made it possible for me to give the French guy back his money and pay my mom back, too.
Why don’t you go explore Educators' website and see if you can apply for a checking account yourself?
Oh by the way: Check out this little card with handy phone numbers!
It’s what I keep in a few different places just in case my wallet gets stolen again.
Make sure you don’t only keep these numbers in your wallet, ey!
Good luck, Renier
