Jordo!

My first car was an old unmarked cop car -- an '81 Dodge Diplomat that cost for 400 bucks from a police auction. I was 18, and a senior in HS.

The car had no interior handles in the back seat (guess why), and the glovebox was gutted (for the police radio, which had been removed). I found a booklet on interrogation procedures stuffed in there. As a kid, that discovery was cool as ****.

Anyway, if I had the money (or. more to the point, parents with the money) to buy me a new Z while I was in HS, I can only imagine that what ever extent to which I am (at least occasionally) a douchebag now would have been magnified by 10,000x having been lucky enough to be granted such a privilege before I was even 18.

Actually, I knew a dude in college (the following year) and he had a new 300zx, and he was a spoiled douchebag.

So, yeah, at least in my experiences, I find that people who have nice, new, shiny luxuries handed to them tend to be spoiled cocks as kids, and then hopefully reign it in over time (but frequently don't).

If that commentary offends anyone who had such good fortune, sorry. But I have to ask: Are you humble, grateful, hardworking, considerate, and willing to help others who have less, or were you just tooling around, joy riding without care in the car mommy and daddy bought you? Do you care about others now, reflecting on the lucky dice roll you had, or do you pretty much figure everyone who is/was doing without must just not be working hard enough.

Just sayin'.

That said, if you are in HS currently, and somehow cobble together the money to get the car on your own, then bully for you, and be a nice guy/girl, and give your friends a lift every now and then. I'm sure they'll appreciate it.

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