People rent cars to drive hundreds of miles back home.

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"Jeep now seems to want to appeal to the people who go to the mall, throw a bunch of shopping bags in the back, drive home and read a book, " said Silecchia, a student and information technology worker in Georgia.

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Call (and pay for that person's cab ride home, or drive that person's car home and then call yourself a cab back to the job or the party.) When a person is feeling low, a little kindness from someone who has just accused that person of carrying horrific germs should go a long way toward forgiveness.

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Less than an hour after targeting he'll be back in suburban Las Vegas, his drive home more physically dangerous than the combat mission he has just undertaken.

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Todd Armstrong said he had to drive 70 miles through a blizzard last Tuesday back to his home in Soldotna after deep drifts prevented him from reaching a hotel while on a job in the port town of Homer.

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