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So I've spent my entire summer working, trying to earn some $$$. By the time I finish working at my job (next week) I will have earned about $2500.
So far, I've paid Subaru $1800 for work that needed to be done to my 213,000 mile car. Not exactly cheap, but the work was necessary and it fixed some things that had been issues for YEARS and made a huge difference in how the car drove, so I was happy nonetheless. I had hoped to save the rest of the money for college stuff, but that didn't end up working out.
Two days ago, I decided to go to a self-serve car wash because they were having a "$3.75 for 45 minutes of use" special. My car was literally covered in mud from some off-roading last weekend, so I decided to take advantage of it. Whilst in the bay, I pulled up my wipers in the front to clean them off, but I stupidly forgot to put them down. When I went to use the sprayer, the hose swung around and lightly knocked both wipers back down. BOTH of them, however, flipped as they fell so that instead of landing on the rubber, they landed on the metal side. The driver's side wiper has a wind deflector to push the blade onto the windshield I guess, and that snapped off and went sailing (not a big deal - it's probably a $20 part.) The other one hit the windshield and cracked it - so that's $400 right there. So basically by the time I go back to college, I will not have ANY money to show for all my summer work. Sucks.
PLUS just now, we had some Blue-Crab for dinner that my brother caught and brought back from the Hamptons (Long Island Shore.) An hour later we realize my dad (who's eaten seafood all his life - just not Blue Crab I guess) is having an allergic reaction - and he had SEVEN of them. He insists on driving, but I want to make sure he gets there okay, so I follow in my car in case he ends up having to stay the night or something. Halfway there, a deer bolts out in front of me and I slam on the brakes, and hit it at about 35 MPH. You could have been Michael Schumacher and it would not have made a difference. It pretty much came out of the bushes at full tilt, and even though I reacted RIGHT away with hard brakes, the car barely finished nosing down when I hit it (ABS screeching.)
You're probably expecting me to tell you about all the damage I have now (I know people who've hit them at 50 and totaled their cars) but all I have to show for it is some dried deer drool on my bumper. It'll take more than a lousy deer to take down this car!
Nonetheless, not a great series of events... and nothing sucks more than working a really, truly boring and annoying job all summer and not being able to spend it on anything other than necessary repairs to your car (which isn't a BAD thing, but I still wish I could have spend a LITTLE of my hard-earned cash on something else for ME, if ya know what I mean.)
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So I've spent my entire summer working, trying to earn some $$$. By the time I finish working at my job (next week) I will have earned about $2500.
So far, I've paid Subaru $1800 for work that needed to be done to my 213,000 mile car. Not exactly cheap, but the work was necessary and it fixed some things that had been issues for YEARS and made a huge difference in how the car drove, so I was happy nonetheless. I had hoped to save the rest of the money for college stuff, but that didn't end up working out.
Two days ago, I decided to go to a self-serve car wash because they were having a "$3.75 for 45 minutes of use" special. My car was literally covered in mud from some off-roading last weekend, so I decided to take advantage of it. Whilst in the bay, I pulled up my wipers in the front to clean them off, but I stupidly forgot to put them down. When I went to use the sprayer, the hose swung around and lightly knocked both wipers back down. BOTH of them, however, flipped as they fell so that instead of landing on the rubber, they landed on the metal side. The driver's side wiper has a wind deflector to push the blade onto the windshield I guess, and that snapped off and went sailing (not a big deal - it's probably a $20 part.) The other one hit the windshield and cracked it - so that's $400 right there. So basically by the time I go back to college, I will not have ANY money to show for all my summer work. Sucks.
PLUS just now, we had some Blue-Crab for dinner that my brother caught and brought back from the Hamptons (Long Island Shore.) An hour later we realize my dad (who's eaten seafood all his life - just not Blue Crab I guess) is having an allergic reaction - and he had SEVEN of them. He insists on driving, but I want to make sure he gets there okay, so I follow in my car in case he ends up having to stay the night or something. Halfway there, a deer bolts out in front of me and I slam on the brakes, and hit it at about 35 MPH. You could have been Michael Schumacher and it would not have made a difference. It pretty much came out of the bushes at full tilt, and even though I reacted RIGHT away with hard brakes, the car barely finished nosing down when I hit it (ABS screeching.)
You're probably expecting me to tell you about all the damage I have now (I know people who've hit them at 50 and totaled their cars) but all I have to show for it is some dried deer drool on my bumper. It'll take more than a lousy deer to take down this car!
Nonetheless, not a great series of events... and nothing sucks more than working a really, truly boring and annoying job all summer and not being able to spend it on anything other than necessary repairs to your car (which isn't a BAD thing, but I still wish I could have spend a LITTLE of my hard-earned cash on something else for ME, if ya know what I mean.)
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no insurance company would touch a 19 year old, and if they do it's gonna be lots of £££
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Really? I know one thing for sure I'm never ever going to buy a house near a corner 
I see a new fence knocked down (occassionally more than just a fence) just about every other weekend in the suburb I live in. So while there is maybe alot that do the right thing and go to track days and organised events there is more that don't and behave like twats on residential streets 
A few beers combined with a late night trip home and alot can't seem to resist hooning often resulting in major damage to their cars and private property. On top of that alot of WA drivers are overly aggressive and extremly impatient on the roads. I'm sure your not one of them though 
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