Car Trouble: Week One

Okay, I know this isn't the first week I've been reading this book, but I meant just the first week of the month! Anyway, here's some general information on the book for those who haven't been following:

A computer geek named Duff heads out on a road trip after getting a job offer in Silicon Valley. After much unwanted delays, his car breaks down in a Podunk, and must stay in a crummy motel for the night. Then, he uses his laptop to find a way to get to California in time. It works. After much waiting, Duff heads over to the gas station across the street and meets Stu. Currently, Duff and Stu have met Bonnie and are staying at her aunt's house.

Anyway, what's happening as I read is Duff finds some suspicion in Stu's ways and accuses him of being a con artist. Stu admits to this, and Duff threatens to call the cops. I think I'm seeing that the purpose of this scene is to show that people are always not as they seem. Much like Duff, I to was suspicious of Stu. He seemed OK in the beginning, then he gets kind of annoying, and then finally ditches Duff at a park. Duff finds something suspicious when Stu says he found some stolen money in the trunk of their last car. Apparently, it wasn't Stu's, but Bonnie's mother's. a con artist by trade. Stu had used the stolen money to pay for a Toyota to get them the rest of the way. If I was Duff, I would definitively had called the cops when Stu wasn't looking.