burn notice

What would you do if you were stranded somewhere? And I’m not talking about a deserted island, without food, water, or shelter. I’m talking about in a city, or a town. Without a car, without credit cards, without a phone? Are you resourceful enough to figure out how to get what you need to survive, without eating out of a dumpster? (I was just thinking about this today when I wondered if my debit card would work in Canada!)

I’m not much on physical strength, so I’d have to rely on the kindness of others to survive. Talk someone into loaning me some cash, make friends with the right people to get access to the places and things I need. Manipulating to do what I need to do to make it. There’s a new show on USA that has a former CIA operative in the same situation. On USA Network’s Burn Notice you can see how Agent Michael Weston deals with being cut off from the CIA after he’s wrongly terminated, and how he goes underground and uses all his resources to investigate what’s really going on. Being that he’s a big guy with access to a gun, I’m sure he’s a heck of a lot more successful than I’d be at the whole urban survival thing.

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