The Rant thread!

**arvain** · Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 8:19 pm Post subject:

Well, I would agree with alex here, but it depends on the reason why she's not getting a car... (like money, or maybe her not being responsible enough, or other random factors, who knows)

But yeah, I can understand why you want to "strangle the stupidity out of her"

when hearing her say her life is unfair, and harder than yours. Just keep in mind it would mean even more trouble for YOU if you were to do something to her

And you don't want that !

Note : my mom pretty much gave me her old car when I got my license after I turned 18 (can't get it before 18 here), but now that it's dead, I live happily ever after with no car (since almost 3 years now). Have to buy one soon though ; going to work with someone is cool, but being a burden isn't.

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I was given a used car on my 17th birthday (just before I graduated high school) with the declaration that I now owed my father $4,000. Still, I was never hounded for the money and ended up paying him back 3-4 years later, after I had paid off my school debts etc.. I even made $1,200 when someone sideswiped me (The book value of the car was $5200, and my ever hustlin father helped me find another car for exactly $4,000).

So personally I think that's a fair system: Give them something that will help them succeed, but find a way to make them work for it. A kid with the responsibility of financing his own car is a kid who will drive carefully (relatively speaking).
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The only reason my bro and I got cars in our senior years was because our parents bought themselves new ones (of their own will; we didn't have any influence on it) and didn't need them anymore. They didn't buy them for us; they already had them. And they're not state-of-the-art brand new cars either. Mine is a '96 Dodge Intrepid that has brakes that squeal louder than your mother during sex. My bro's car is a 2000? Dodge Mini-Caravan (which my parents "gave" to him before he had his license, iirc).

Now for my sister, my parents don't want to buy themselves another new car because they don't need another one now. THIS is why it's ridiculous. She wants them to drop 10K+ just to buy a used car for her (or for my dad so she could then take his car).

Also, if my parents had sold mine or my bros instead of giving them to us, they'd get $1000 - $1500 tops so it's not like we robbed them of something extremely valuable like my sister would.

Not the same whatsoever.

EDIT: Also, after reading arvain's post, it should be noted that my sister is the most distracted person ever. She's been driving with my parents for over a year now and it's still terrifying to have to ride with her driving.

And now for my rant today:

Fuck the people in my group in my microbiology class. One of them is a social worker in a hospital, one is a nurse's assistant, and the other does some kind of work with medications in a retirement home. All of their jobs are relevant to some field of science and they've been taking classes related to this one for years. This is the first science course I've taken since junior year high school (5 years ago now, wow) so, naturally, whenever something in our lab gets messed up it's always my fault since I'm the less competent and educated one by default. They act all friendly and smug to each other, but always treat me like I'm retarded. The best part of all is that I scored the highest on our only lab exam thus far and they still think I'm the dumb one. I thought the people in business school were the most cliquey and unappealing people ever, but these guys are giving them a run for their money.
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