<P> The pair resort to various means to try and reach Chicago, but one attempt after another is defeated . Forced to share a room in a cheap motel on the first night, Neal loses his temper with Del and lambastes him . In response, Del admits that he regards Neal as a cold cynic and says that despite how Neal feels, he likes himself and his wife and customers like him . Neal calms down and the two men go to sleep . During the night their cash is stolen by a burglar . </P> <P> The following day they attempt to reach Chicago by train, but the locomotive breaks down, leaving the passengers stranded in a Missouri field . After reaching Jefferson City, Del sells his remaining shower curtain rings to buy bus tickets, but neglects to tell Neal that they are only valid to St. Louis . Upon arrival, Neal again offends Del over lunch and the two part ways . </P> <P> Neal attempts to rent a car, but finds the space at the distant rental lot empty . After walking back to the airport terminal, Neal vents his anger at the rental agent to no avail . In desperation, he attempts to hail a taxi to Chicago, but insults the dispatcher, who then attacks Neal . Del arrives in time to rescue Neal with his own rental car . While driving, they find themselves arguing again . The situation is made worse when Del nearly gets them killed on a freeway after driving in the wrong direction, and driving between two semi-trailer trucks . While they take a moment to compose themselves by the side of the road, Del's carelessly discarded cigarette sets fire to the rental car . Neal initially gloats over Del's predicament, thinking that he is liable for the damage to the car . Neal's amusement turns to anger when Del reveals he used Neal's credit card to rent the car after their cards were accidentally switched . </P> <P> With his credit cards destroyed in the car fire, Neal sells his designer watch to a motel clerk to pay for a room for himself . Del is broke and attempts to sleep in the car, which has lost its roof in the fire . Neal eventually feels sympathy for Del and invites him in from the cold and snowy night . Neal relaxes as the two consume Del's collection of airline liquors and laugh about the events of the past two days . The pair resume driving to Chicago the next morning, but their badly damaged car is impounded by the police . They finally make it to Chicago, two days late, in the back of a refrigerator truck . </P>

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