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I think Cary is right. I am sympathetic to the boyfriend's plight in having lost the money, but it really was bad form to force someone else to fix the problem.
When it happened he should have just reassessed his new situation (Ok, hmm. All my money is gone. What shoudl I do now?) and figured out a way to solve the problem without making his host solve it for him. Immature is exactly what that was, and the gracious thing to do would have been to quietly wire family or friends for money, if he had no funds available on his own, and had them help him out. He made his host look bad, embarrassed his future father in law, and maybe he ruined the ruputations of innoccent housemaids, who no doubt also had to deal with the fall out of the entire incident.
This is why, when you travel, you use traveler's checks and why, when you travel, you get one of those little black canvase purses with the neckstring that allows you to carry your cash, next to your body, under your shirt.
Simple.
