I just found out one of my coworkers at The Mall is working to pay for the car her mom paid the downpayment for, incentive to get better grades this year as a senior in high school.
She got a Cadillac Escalade, fully loaded. We're talking about over $53K of auto, and a seventeen year old. Sure, Mom paid the lion's share in down payment, but still....
A Cadillac Escalade.
If I'd had incentive like that when I was in high school, I would have become Albert Einstein.
I must go sooth my stunned brain with medicinal martinis and South Park reruns.
Escalade.
Damn.
. . . aaaaand every kid I grew up with that received such largess usually cracked it up within six months.
Pity. YOU'D show some real appreciation for a gift like that, wouldn'tya?
Posted by: Margi at November 2, 2004 12:16 AM...whoa. Did you say an Escalade?
I got a 1990 Chevy Cavalier (that had been rode hard and hung up wet) in May of my senior year.
Damn these kids. >:(
Posted by: Tiffany at November 2, 2004 04:55 AMI'm giving this thing 6 weeks before its mangled frame is pulled out of a ditch and hauled off to the junkyard.
Posted by: Harvey at November 2, 2004 08:33 AMHmmm. Confirms my thoughts that I came from a different planet. I did not get a car on graduation from highschool. I got driving privileges - after I paid for my insurance. And I got to share driver rights with 2 older siblings driving the GPS (Green Piece of Sh..!)- An ancient Dodge dart that belonged to my grandfather circa something 70. As I was the middle child of 5 - my turn at captaining the land barge was somewhere between when warm non-tropical places froze over and when the Pope is a female... Paying gas for the GPS alone required a part time job. Yes, most people who are handed 2 ton accelerators with no real appreciation for the gift nor the responsibility attached - end up wrapped around a tree, lightpole, or sadly, another engine block. NOT that we wish this on your co-worker or anyone else. But stuff that comes so easy - is rarely appreciated - until lost. At least she got a job. I grew up with a few trolls who were "gifted" a car apparently on the sole talent of being able to breath...
All I ever got for incentive was restriction and the belt. For inexplicable reasons I left "education" behind when I dropped out of 10th grade even though as I recall it was an expensive belt.
Posted by: Bob at November 2, 2004 08:58 AMHa! If I didn't know better, I'd swear you lived in my 'hood. My next door neighbors bought their twin teens a loaded escalade this past spring AFTER they totalled the first SUV they were bought. The incentive?
Don't come home pregnant before your senior year of high school (like their mother did.)
I kid you not.
What sort of (you should excuse the expression) fucktard buys their kid a car like that? Or, for that matter, any new car? That's asking for trouble in so many ways.
More money than brains, innit?
Posted by: Steve at November 3, 2004 12:40 PM