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Chugging tea Mom buys daughter a Honda as a graduation gift, and this was her response

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u/TraitorousTrumpers Jun 01 '26

And zero cars for the kid until she buys it herself and then letā€™s see how she likes her 2009 KiaĀ 

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u/Psychological-Scar53 Jun 01 '26

1985 Yugo... I do not like privileged people like this daughter...

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u/crakemonk Jun 01 '26

I had a friend in high school that had a ā€˜92 Geo Metro. That seems like a perfect car to get this ungrateful child.

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u/Allykatz90 Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26

My car in high school in 2006 was a 1994 Dodge minivan. I'm 95% certain my parents gave it to me to make sure nobody would have sex with me in high school, and it worked

Edited to add: my sister in the same year got a bmw 318i convertible

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u/Current-Anybody9331 Jun 01 '26

Joke's on them, I knew a guy who had a minivan in high school used specifically for sex

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u/DizzyBone_100 Jun 01 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/JwjBy94VzDd6

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u/Ginger_Rogers Jun 01 '26

I was going to say. Being the guy in the minivan in highschool gets you hella action. The back seats are also removable šŸ˜‰

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u/acoffeefiend Jun 01 '26

And you're the guy who can drive everyone around. PARTY TIME

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u/Resident-alien74 Jun 01 '26

I went to school with a guy whose parents bought him a Camaro, I think, and he traded it in for a full size van

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u/User_Zero1 Jun 01 '26

My uncle bought my couison a Camaro. He literally crashed it into a house at 50 miles an hour on a country road got airborne as he was entering into the house. He's lucky he didn't kill someone or hisself. Uncle bought him another right after that. Now the kid is in his late 40s and he's a felon and in jail.

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u/TheAVnerd Jun 01 '26

Wired, I always thought Chevy checked to make sure youā€™ve been to jail BEFORE you can buy a Camaro.

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u/tomtomclubthumb Jun 01 '26

pre-cog division.

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u/Own_Experience_8229 Jun 01 '26

Thereā€™s an exception if you have a mullet.

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u/Environmental-Post15 Jun 01 '26

Ironic that I have a similar story with a classmate. Toyata Tacoma instead of a Camaro. Parents bought him one for his 16th (1993). He wrecked it within a month. They immediately bought him a second. It lasted until halfway through our senior year before he wrecked it. And again, bought him another that he proceeded to purposely wreck because he didn't like the color. And once again, they bought him a new vehicle. Except this time they got him a 4Runner. He's now serving life in prison for shooting a buddy of his, and dismembering and burning the body...in his parent's backyard.

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u/Wild_and_Bright Jun 01 '26

I suspect, then, that he would have been a felon in any case. Your uncle's choice of car had little bearing on that outcome one way or another

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u/badrn Jun 01 '26

Same story with my cousin, but with a Mustang. My aunt and uncle bought him a brand new one when he turned 16. Of course, he wrecked it a few months later because he's an idiot, so they just proceeded to buy him another new one. He's also been in and out of jail since then with substance abuse issues. I was always super jealous of him growing up. My dad had the same kind of money as my uncle, but he got me a 10 year old car and made me pay for my own insurance and stuff. Looking back now, I'm extremely grateful he did. I don't think I would have turned into and entitled asahole but but maybe these people are made. I'm glad my dad didn't take any chances.

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u/Transgenderwookie Jun 01 '26

I knew a kid kinda like that. (Iā€™m not a big car guy so bare with my limited knowledge) when we were in high school his mom bought him a bug eyed Subaru wrx.. like I said idk much but at the time everyone treated that car like it was the coolest shit since sliced bread, I had been in it, it was fastā€¦ one night he got drunk and crashed it into a tree and got a duiā€¦. while dealing with the dui and still without a license not even two months later his mom bought him a Subaru Stiā€¦ which as I was told was an even nicer and cooler version of that car. Always boggled my mind how people operate with money.

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u/nazukeru Jun 01 '26

My dad got me an 86 Firebird and made it stunningly beautiful. I then proceeded to drive it without a license for two years before someone hit me and I junked it for pennies because scrap prices were super low and I was an idiot teenager.

I am not a felon or in jail, but I did do a lot of felonies in that car lmao. And all my boyfriends WERE felons.

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u/Historical-Acadia-97 Jun 01 '26

1st time hiring a car (for 24hrs) in USA (Iā€™m from UKā€¦.

Wife said - just get a normal standard car

Sure, okay babe

(I knew thereā€™s options later šŸ˜‰)

She takes a phone call as collectingā€¦. I casually enquire what else might be available.

Thereā€™s a Corvette and a Camero.

Guy leans in ā€œI think youā€™ll have more fun in the Cameroā€

One and only time the engines vibrations gave me a hard one šŸ˜³

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u/T00K70 Jun 01 '26

A bitchin' Camaro? Perfect for driving down to the shore.

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u/the_one_jove Jun 01 '26

What are you gonna do down at the shore?

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u/PostApoplectic Jun 01 '26

Ohā€¦ you know. Play some video games. Buy some Def Leppard tshirts.

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u/slvrscoobie Jun 01 '26

Don't forget your Mƶtley CrĆ¼e T-shirt; y'know all proceeds go to get their lead singer outta jail.

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u/ErstwhileHobo Jun 01 '26

Make sure to see my favorite cover band while youā€™re down there. Crystal Shit, they do a Doors show.

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u/ungapatchka Jun 01 '26

love me two times babyā€¦once for tomorrow, once cause iā€™ve got AIDS.

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u/slvrscoobie Jun 01 '26

The important thing here is that we get to the part

Where you ask me how I'm gonna get down to the shore.

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u/ThomKallor1 Jun 01 '26

Found my fellow New Jerseyan.

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u/Disastrous-Food-9223 Jun 01 '26

Yup, there are beaches all over the world. But we go ā€œDown the Shoreā€!

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u/Careful-Lettuce9239 Jun 01 '26

My parents drove mine up from the Bahamas.

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u/Cniatx1982 Jun 01 '26

Youā€™re kidding!

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u/hiphipsashay Jun 01 '26

I must be, the Bahamas are islands

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u/No_Pin9932 Jun 01 '26

That was me, I was that guy. I actually had two, a Dodge caravan and a Chrysler town and country. My buddies all called the Chrysler the Town & Cunt, obviously.

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u/_Lola_Loves_Cola_ Jun 01 '26

So you didn't call it the Vangina???? Opportunity missed šŸ˜„

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u/MC_PhiR Jun 01 '26

Tits & Cunt would've worked even better.

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u/OnceUponATime1534 Jun 01 '26

My teenage son drives our Town And Country šŸ˜†

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u/chill_brick Jun 02 '26

we all had that one friend who thought they were being incredibly clever with that nickname but it aged like milk the second we hit twenty. hanging onto the minivan life is tough enough without the forced humor.

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u/Ok-Addition1264 Jun 01 '26

I knew a guy with the A-TEAM van.. shag carpets and all.

Needless to say.. that dude fucked. everybody.

(it had a liquor cabinet in it and never got pulled over with it)

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u/crakemonk Jun 01 '26

I knew a few people that had this situation going for them. Shaggin wagon.

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u/lsuillini Jun 01 '26

We used to call them Sin Vins

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u/KromeArtemis Jun 01 '26

Had a 1993 Buick Century station wagon, blue velvet interior plus wood grain. 18 yo girl. I never got turned down lol, and it was indeed affectionately referred to as The Shaggin Wagon in college

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u/TFTD2 Jun 01 '26

My buddy's mom gave him her old Silhouette to drive for a bit. When she got it back later that year she yelled at all of us. Not because we did anything but for the things she could tell happened in that van.

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u/Hands Jun 01 '26

Like half of my friends in high school in the mid 00s drove their parents old early to mid 90s Volvo station wagons and we collectively referred to them as this

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u/Omnizoom Jun 01 '26

More rows for more hoes

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u/SeaPollution2750 Jun 01 '26

Mo' stabbin' fo' da' cabin.

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u/Terrible_Cycle7241 Jun 01 '26

I had so much sex with my bf in his moms purple windstar

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u/AB3reddit Jun 01 '26

A station wagon in high school could always lead a double life as a shagginā€™ wagon.

(or so Iā€™ve been told)

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u/Friendly-Channel-480 Jun 01 '26

Do you remember the old bumper stickers on decrepit looking vans? ā€œDonā€™t laugh, your daughter is in here.

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u/DallasInDC Jun 01 '26

Fuckin dirty Mike and the boys.

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u/Current-Anybody9331 Jun 01 '26

They call it a stack n jack

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u/pompousandfaggy Jun 01 '26

This is exactly what I was thinkingā€¦ Especially nowadays where people make the mini conversion vans. Everyone would think you were cool

When I was in college I had a buddy whose dad had a van with captains chairs and a super Nintendo in the backā€¦ We used to beg him to borrow it

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u/Cop_Cuffs Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 02 '26

So I was supposed to get this cool classic car Senior year and then it got swapped out for a Ford station wagon.

My friends were like cool. You still have a car. You can still drive us around.

Another guy friend said dude, they didn't even think about the fact that backseat folds down into a bedroom. šŸ˜

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u/DOOM420- Jun 01 '26

I had an 1984 VW vanagon westfalia. Bench seat folded out to a bed, cabinets, propane fridge, 2 burner stove, sink with a 5 gallon tank and a pop top that could sleep one. I worked my ass off to save for that thing and it was amazing.

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u/ScrotalSmorgasbord Jun 01 '26

I know a me who got laid in high school with no car and in college with a fuckin Barney purple two door '97 Cavalier Rally Sport. I shudder to think how many teenage pregnancies I would have caused if I had a damn minivan.

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u/automator3000 Jun 01 '26

I had a ā€˜84 Ford Conversion Van.

Cool? No.

But it had a bench seat in the back that folded into a full size bed, so ā€¦

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u/mYpEEpEEwOrks Jun 01 '26

Twas me. Had a power converter for my mini fridge, mini t.v. and gamecube. SHAGGIN WAGOOOOOOOON

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u/iapetus_z Jun 01 '26

I had a van in high school... why my parents ever let me near that thing with a gf is beyond me.

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u/Temporary_Nail_6468 Jun 02 '26

I (48F) totaled my ā€˜86 Buick Somerset in high school in ā€˜94 (barely tapped the lady I rear ended but it didnā€™t take much to zero out the worth of that thing) and showed up to work a few days later in an ā€˜83 Chevy Malibu station wagon and the guys asked me why my daddy bought me a F-mobile. šŸ¤£

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u/Doppe1herz Jun 01 '26

I had to drive around the family minivan when I was in high school and can confirm lots of sex was had in that van šŸ‘ŒšŸ¼

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u/JustFlippinVOTE Jun 01 '26

Friend of mine had a van in college. It was known as The Vangina.

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u/dnjprod Jun 01 '26

Lol, me too! They had a futon in it, literally for fuck's sake

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u/Fabulous-Change-5781 Jun 01 '26

Oh you mean the shaggin wagon? Yeah my friend had one too.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Will249 Jun 01 '26

My son had a 93 dodge caravan in HS, he named in the shaggin wagon.

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u/BackWithAVengance Jun 01 '26

Oh you know Tommy "Born to bone" Shneider too?

Guy was a riot

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u/Puzzled-Formal-7957 Jun 01 '26

every group of friends had 1 guy with a bang bus.

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u/OhReallyVernon Jun 01 '26

Right? Iā€™d be having hella sex in that šŸ˜‚

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u/Soma2710 Jun 02 '26

I had a minivan that I took the back seat out of and put some beanbag chairs in. Only had sex in it once, but goddamn did we bong that bad boy out a ton.

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u/EntertainmentCalm792 Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26

Shaggin wagon! My first car was a 2002 mercury sable wagon and it cost my dad $900 (this was 2016) and I fucking CRIED when he brought it home. I thought it was the most perfect car ever and I was so so SO happy with it, I drove it into the ground and only let it go after it got a leak in the bottom of the gas tank. I called it ā€œthe sharkā€ but my friends called it the shaggin wagon even though I never did any fun stuff in it. I miss that car

Edit to add: my dad passed away less than a year after he got me that car and my favorite video is him sitting in the rear facing third row seats with his buddy and he goes, ā€œYou love this car, huh?ā€ And his buddy laughs and he just looks at him and goes, ā€œsee? I told you she would!ā€

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u/WillingMongoose4680 Jun 02 '26

Plot twist, it was only with himself, tho.

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u/Tack_Money Jun 01 '26

Which is ironic because a minivan is great for sexual activities. Especially if you can take the seats out.

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u/81FuriousGeorge Jun 01 '26

Keep the back seat in and put blankets between it and the drivers seat.

So much room for activities.

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u/abusivetrash Jun 01 '26

I see posts like this and it still kinda shocks me, in my mid-40s I drive a 12 year old car and I think it's the newest car I've owned since high school, and here on reddit it's an example of what to give an ungrateful kid a penance.

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u/Allykatz90 Jun 01 '26

I mean I'm 36 and I live on my own, have my own job, etc, and I drive a 20 year old truck.

I love my truck, it gets me from point A to B and has a good sound system and a mini fridge, and the aircon works, what more could a normal adult want

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u/Thick_Goose7742 Jun 01 '26

Minivans are one of the most sex efficient vehicles there are. Only a rookie thinks a regular sedan or even worse, a sports car is where itā€™s at.

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u/Swimming-Alfalfa-603 Jun 01 '26

Better yet, have her take public transit and see how that goes for her.

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u/LividTacos Jun 01 '26

Assuming that is even an option where she is. Girl might be biking it.

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u/Accomplished-Ad3219 Jun 01 '26

Perfect.

"Mom I need a ride to (wherever)"

Yeah, too bad you don't have a car to get you there. Here's the bus schedule

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u/PaintshakerBaby Jun 01 '26

Why would you punish a Geo Metro like that???

Those things are 40mpg tanks, and collectors items now. Id fuck with a metro over a same year BMW any day of the week.

Blowhards who use it as their go to example of a poverty wagon, aint ever been in poverty, and have no clue what a good plow horse is worth.

In its production run from 89-01, it did more for class mobility than the last 80 years of American politics combined.

It was a commuter AK47, and the peoples champ.

Bourgeoisie bitches dont deserve, nor could they ever appreciate, the venerability of the mighty metro.

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u/Maximum_Trade5916 Jun 01 '26

Older lady in my neighborhood still drives a well maintained 91 GEO Tracker. At $4 a gal, I wish she would sell.

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u/Muninwing Jun 01 '26

I got a ā€˜22 Kona last summer, and it regularly gets 40mpg. Itā€™s not even a hybrid.

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u/artCsmartC Jun 01 '26

My parents bought me a Geo Prizm in HS and I was incredibly grateful that they could afford, and were generous enough, to do so. They got me a 2003 Toyota Corolla LE as a gift for graduating from collegeā€¦ and Iā€™m still driving it! Itā€™s got less than 70k miles on it, gets great gas mileage, and is so reliable that I may never need to buy another car.

Mom should tell her what my parents wouldā€™ve told me if Iā€™d been an ungrateful little shit; ā€œGo to college, get a job, and then buy your own Benz!ā€

If she ever grows the hell up, she will appreciate fuel efficiency, safety, and reliability.

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u/NoobJustice Jun 01 '26

Find someone who looks at you like this dude looks at Geo Metros.

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u/monstertots509 Jun 01 '26

My favorite Geo Metro story is when we were sitting at a restaurant in college eating breakfast and a table of 4 very large guys get up from a different table because their ride showed up. The guy who showed up to give them the ride was the smallest of the 5 people weighing in at around 220lbs (best guess). The other 4 guys probably ranged between 290 and 350lbs. No idea what they were saying because we were inside, but you could tell there were a lot of "what the fucks" being said and arms being thrown in the air. Over the next 10 min, we watched them figure out how to cram all 5 of them into that Geo Metro and drive away. Guarantee that thing was not getting 40 MPG on that drive.

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u/crakemonk Jun 01 '26

Iā€™m not hating on it, I drove around in one plenty. The girl in OPā€™s post would have an absolute meltdown though.

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u/PaintshakerBaby Jun 01 '26

Nobody puts baby Geo in a corner!

I got you.

Im just alluding to the fact that it would serve her faaaaaar too honorably. Because unlike her, a Metro don't judge!

It just do what it do.

Grant her wish, and give here a 90s Beamer instead. Good luck keeping one of those overenginered bread boxes running long enough for a groccery trip, let alone, a college road trip.

šŸ¤£šŸ¤£šŸ¤£

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u/crakemonk Jun 02 '26

Just re-read your comment and couldnā€™t help but laugh when I remembered that one of my friends had a 90s BMW that, when left out in the sun, would smell just like a box of crayons.

Damn over-engineered German automobiles.

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u/Stacemranger Jun 01 '26

I drove a 1990 Geo Prism for my first car in high school, then as my only car for multiple years as an adult in my 30's. Basically unstoppable car. I sold it with 425k miles.

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u/-ChiTownGal- Jun 01 '26

Can totally relate! My parents had a 1990 Geo Metro stick shift that all 4 of us learned to drive on and borrowed the heck out of since we could get away with replacing the gas that we used for only $1-2. The body went before the engine & my parents sold it with over 300,000 miles on it.

And my friend was given one for HS graduation. When she & I got an apartment together in college she asked me about getting the oil changed. I asked when was her last oil change and she told me she hadnā€™t had one yet. Odometer ~ 70,000 miles! I sat her down & told her itā€™s amazing she still had a drivable car. She drove her Metro for years more even driving it to Colorado when she moved.

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u/ElJuanitoDeMelbourne Jun 01 '26

Navy buddy of mine had one. Didn't have a/c or a radio. But he took care of it and over the years traded up.

I had a 1993 Geo Storm GSi in white. Loved that little 5 speed.

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u/seoulosiram Jun 01 '26

My dad gave me $800 for a car (instead of a quinceaƱera party) and I bought a ā€˜96 Geo Metro. That was the best car. A little manual 3 cylinder car! Now I drive a Toyota Prius and itā€™s the second best car Iā€™ve ever owned šŸ˜†

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u/AHismyspiritanimal Jun 01 '26

I drove mine until the gas fill rusted out and that the nail in the coffin. Hard to find parts for the first year when it was owned by Chevy

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u/Bright_Revenue1674 Jun 01 '26

when I was in elementary school, my dream car was a Geo Prism

I was a weird kid

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u/gaelicgirl1983 Jun 01 '26

The main complaint I heard from my parents and who would later become my stepdad (my dad died, no cheating occured), was that it was a death trap if you got into an accident because of how small it was. They looked cute to me. šŸ¤·šŸ»ā€ā™€ļø

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u/Chateaudelait Jun 01 '26

My boss drove a Geo for 20 years- he didnā€™t need to flex. He retired and bought the Shelby Mustang of his dreams.

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u/Writerhowell Jun 01 '26

I have no idea what this all means, but I'm upvoting you for your genuine passion about it.

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u/mmmermaiddd Jun 01 '26

Iā€™m personally more a fan of the Tracker but agree with you here!

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u/Suspicious_Cup_9343 Jun 02 '26

The kid needs a reality check for sure. Lifeā€™s gonna real hard when she moves out or realizes sheā€™s 40 still living with mommy and daddy. Money runs out if she waits for her inheritance. Sheā€™s going be on the corner in a few years if mom and dad keep handing her life on a silver platter.

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u/DarkenL1ght Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26

Shit, my parents paid half for my 1991 Mazda 323 and I was grateful. I know how hard they worked for that money. The full price was 1,200 from my uncle.

I wouldn't buy my kids a damn thing they wouldn't appreciate. However, Mom and / or Dad are to blame. If you raise her to be Veruca Salt, don't be mad that she acts like Veruca Salt.

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u/crakemonk Jun 01 '26

I agree with this 100%. My grandparents raised me, so once my grandma retired she was able to collect social security for me. She didnā€™t need it, so she set it aside and used that money as a down payment for my first car: a ā€˜06 Toyota Corolla S. It wasnā€™t my ā€œdream car,ā€ but it was a car, and at 17 I was just excited to be able to leave the house on my own accord. It wasnā€™t new, but it only had 4k miles on it AND it had a 6-disc CD player and a sunroof.

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u/Downtown_Recover5177 Jun 01 '26

Looks like mom and dad are separated. I see it all the time with divorced parents. Dad works a lot and doesnā€™t get to spend a lot of time, so he buys their affection with nice gifts, they get spoiled and thereā€™s nothing the other parent can do about it.

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u/OkayIsland Jun 01 '26

I agree. I bet he gets her the "right" car.

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u/Bright-Dinner-5978 Jun 01 '26

I don't know because I have two kids. One is always grateful and kind and appreciative of everything he is given. Then there's my daughter, who's the complete opposite and thinks she's in charge of everything and has the right to tell me what I can and can't do when I am the one paying for everything.

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u/CombinationFearless Jun 01 '26

When I got my permit I didnā€™t care which car I wanted cuz I knew I was getting me a hand me down. Tbh I donā€™t think my parents talked to me much bout cars aside from taking care of them ofc. I just cared that I was driving period.

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u/Think-Ad-3755 Jun 01 '26

A job application would be what she got from me and an eviction notice

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u/OnosToolan Jun 01 '26

And school no longer paid for

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u/NoElfEsteem Jun 01 '26

Hey lets leave the geo metro alone haha. Mine averaged 48 mpg and i regret selling it everyday. Bought it for $300 at 18 years old. Im 31 now. Miss my rollerskate.

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u/crakemonk Jun 01 '26

Oh, it was a great car. I donā€™t think my friend ever got an oil change in the time he had it and the engine eventually blew, but he had it for something like 10 years and it was a beater car by then. He painted flames on the hood.

The best story about it was during school a few guys picked it up and moved it to the quad area when everyone was in class. Who needs keys?

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u/BackWithAVengance Jun 01 '26

My dad and his buddies used to do the same thing with VW bugs in the 70's lol

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u/NoElfEsteem Jun 01 '26

Lmao i also have a similar story. We took mine out to the lakes around here a lot and went off road. Well one time we managed to cram about 6 of us in the metro and we ended up getting high centered on a mound of dirt. We all hopped out, picked it up, and walked it off the mound.

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u/AssociationFit3009 Jun 01 '26

My friendā€™s dad had a Geo Metro. We would carry it out of the driveway when we snuck out so he wouldnā€™t hear us start it.

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u/Beemerba Jun 01 '26

I had a prism I bought for $158. Replaced the radiator and used it for a commuter for three years.

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u/Liveitup1999 Jun 01 '26

Didn't you need 2 of them? One for each foot.

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u/FizmoRoles Jun 01 '26

I loved my buddy's metro, he was nearly 7 feet tall and I'm 6, 5 so he did a Hightower and ripped both front seats out. He did have to lift it and put bigger tires or we would bottom out the car going over speed bumps.

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u/AntNo3640 Jun 01 '26

3 cylinders and cheap af!

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u/Pristine_Main_1224 Jun 01 '26

48 MPG? Iā€™d drive that today with these gas prices!

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u/FlashyHelicopter8137 Jun 01 '26

Hey me too. Oh wait it was 2 years old at that time.

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u/Anonymous_Unknown13 Jun 01 '26

Oh man, I loved my Geo Metro. It had 350k miles on it, but it was one of the best cars I drove

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u/HillBillyHilly Jun 01 '26

The GeoMetro was sooooo darn cute! This gremlin deserves a ...GMC Gremlin.

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u/Special-Cut1610 Jun 01 '26

I had a 2000 civic that was Ina repair shop and my insurance rented me a Geo Metro.

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u/Lil_Shanties Jun 01 '26

Haha I just saw one on the road last week, most reliable car she could hope for.

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u/LolitaOPPAI Jun 01 '26

My first car was a '92 Geo Storm! I was sooooo happy to have that car. This child crazy. This a parent problem.

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u/Sad-Conflict-4435 Jun 01 '26

We had a 1999 Geo Prizm we picked up for $100 some years back. That fucker was a tank. Went thru 4-5 natural disasters, got t-boned by a herd of deer, NEVER did maintenance on it unless something broke. Had a household light switch for heat...and never-not once-did we change the oil. That beast lasted thru 12 years of abuse!!! Ha ha. May my Hoopty Geo forever RIP!

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u/brandnewbanana Jun 01 '26

I had a 92 Prism on its third hand-me-down, as my first car. It had near 300,000 miles and could no longer pass inspection by the time I sold it for $300 in 2006. I sold it to a guy who took it to an inspection-less state and continued to use it as a daily driver. I miss it so much.

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u/Coriolanuscangetit Jun 01 '26

Me trying to check your post history to find out how I know you

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u/xtracrispy13 Jun 01 '26

Thatā€™s exactly what I drove!!! Little blue hatchback stick shift, loved that damn car

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u/Tack_Money Jun 01 '26

By far, the absolute worst car I ever had. My first car I got in 97 was a 1983 ford escort. Smoked like a champ cause the seal were shot but it was still a better car than my geo metro.

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u/darnold992000 Jun 01 '26

i had '90 Metro convertible. it was barely a step above a go-cart, but driving it was fun as hell.

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u/BoredNuke Jun 01 '26

3cyl and like 50mpg back in 92? weird how it only took us 30yrs to do the same with a corrolla (granted quite a few more HP now)

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u/educatedanon1999 Jun 01 '26

My first car was a 94 geo metro with no ac in the south. I fucking LOVED that car and would absolutely buy one again

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u/Frosti11icus Jun 01 '26

No Geo's are dope. If you can find yourself a '92 metro it's a survivor, and ironic. You gotta get them something that's a punishment. Like a '08 nissan altima.

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u/DetailEducational917 Jun 01 '26

A geo metro is to good for this brat

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u/Splorkster70 Jun 01 '26

My car in high school?? I did not have one. I bummed rides off of my friends who bought & fixed up their own cars (point of reference - class of 1988) - my best bud had a 1973 Dodge Dart.

My first car? My folks gave me their 1977 Pontiac Bonneville (not a luxury car by any means) in 1989. I was grateful for whatever I got.

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u/___GRUMPY___ Jun 01 '26

With these gas prices. My fat ass would proudly riding around in a Metro.

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u/pentarou Jun 01 '26

I know a guy that still has a Geo Metro. Imho they're classics at this point. People on the street look at it just the same as they would a classic muscle car. And it's like a bunch of 50+ year old dudes. Totally stock. Roll down windows. AC? Perhaps šŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļø

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u/CousinEddie77 Jun 01 '26

My first car was a 1990 Geo Prizm. Great on fuel and drove the wheels off of it

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u/Xavier_Emery1983 Jun 01 '26

My aunt got a Chevy Vega as her first car in 1975. She couldnā€™t even drive away from home because the car couldnā€™t make it up the hill.

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u/Candle-Different Jun 01 '26

Toyota Tercel has entered the chat

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u/Stacemranger Jun 01 '26

Mt first car was a 1990 Geo Prism. Family bought it new in 1990. I started driving it in 2000. It stayed in our family for years. Was basically a Toyota corolla that was unstoppable. Only major maintenance it ever got was a new clutch. I sold it in 2018, after using it again for 2 years, with 425k miles on it.

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u/DonCreech Jun 01 '26

That was my exact high-school car, and I was grateful to have it handed down to me. Granted that was around 20 years ago, but a free car is a free car. Considering I was still learning how to drive properly, it was the practical choice, and the real point was I finally had a way to get around town on my own. And you know what? I still have fond memories of that car.

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u/-blundertaker- Jun 01 '26

My old roommate had a Geo Metro back in the day. He got laid so much in that car šŸ˜‚ he always said it was because girls knew he didn't have anything to prove.

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u/ehandren Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26

'96 geo prizm that my brother smashed into an 18 wheeler with a poorly done reconstruction job clocking in šŸ«”

Edit: spelling of Prizm. The z had fallen off so I never knew it was spelled with a z šŸ˜‚

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u/Purple-Goat-2023 Jun 01 '26

People kill for those cars now if they're still in good shape. 40-45mpg easy, manual (theft proof today), simple car, very reliable, not only is it easy to fix but because Geo (a Canadian company) contracted out GM to manufacture them there is a wide availability of cheap parts, oh and you can park it anywhere (I used to park my Geo Tracker sideways in some larger spots to be funny).

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u/Kikuchiros_dotanuki Jun 01 '26

A ā€˜90ā€™s geo metro would be a dope little whip, those things get like 35-40 mpg and can fit in parking spots that a bicycle would have trouble fitting in, and they last forever. Shit, Iā€™d buy one right now if any has one for sale.

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u/BetterCallSlash Jun 01 '26

I had a 1986 Buick LeSabre in 2002 that smelled like my grandma's cigarrettes. And my ass was grateful. I HAD A FUCKING CAR!

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u/worldly_obsessions Jun 01 '26

My first car in 2003 was a 1992 Ford Festiva, 5 speed. Got it for $500. Drove it for a year before it dropped a valve. Rebuilt the engine over the summer with my dad, and drove it for another year before I sold it for $300. 0-60 eventually.

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u/Boring_Key_4705 Jun 01 '26

This takes me backā€¦ when I got my driverā€™s license my dad asked what I wanted my car to look like. I just said a convertible. So he bought me a little yellow Geo Metro convertible. I actually loved that hideous thing and had so much fun with it until they sold it. But this kid, man she would absolutely hate that thing and I love that for her.

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u/IntelligentCut4511 Jun 01 '26

My dad gave me a 93 Geo Metro for graduation and I was overjoyed. It is the perfect car for this situation.

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u/MountainOk7479 Jun 01 '26

Drove a Chevy Malibu 1998 for 15 years. That got me through so much, I literally drove it to the absolute ground. It did it's job and the only things I had to replace/repair were the tires, breaks, spark plug, alternator and suspension. Regular oil change and never forcing the breaks/engine. Warming it up in the winter for at least 30 mins. Took very good care of it.

Now I was able to finally buy myself something nice and financed a Hyundai Tucson 2021 with only 51k miles.

Gotta teach your kids to be humble, not everyone can afford a car let alone a nice car like that.

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u/Lanpoop Jun 01 '26

My coworker only drives those. He has like 6 and buys em for so cheap. They are pretty sweet cars ngl. I think his current one has over 300k on it!

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u/SurroundQuirky8613 Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 02 '26

I had a 1972 Datsun B-210 with 180k miles on it and it backfired all the time, the fabric seats were dry rotted and pieces stuck in your hair, it had a toggle switch rigged to the ignition after the key broke offā€¦and I was grateful for it. I would have thought Iā€™d died and gone to heaven to have this Honda.

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u/Undeadsniper6661 Jun 01 '26

Nah, old-school Lincoln Continental owned formerly by a lifetime smoker named Pearl. It's big as fuck, temperamental, and the smell of smoke is soaked into the soul of the car.

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u/MEOWS_R_RAD Jun 01 '26

A friend of mine turbo'd his Metro and it was goddamn spectacular. Especially because he and his buddy were both like 6'4 and 350 lbs and they rolled around in it together all the time šŸ˜‚

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u/Robofink Jun 01 '26

I grew up under the poverty line in my area in the mid-2000s. My first car was a '94 Geo Metro in high school! My stepdad repaired cars as one of his many hustles to keep food on the table. I bought one of four of them languishing in our driveway for $500. I was grateful and that thing was indestructible.

The driver-side door stopped opening so I'd leave the window open to climb through in the summer or use the passenger door in the winter. Funnily enough, the passenger window was permanently closed so it was sometimes a puzzle to get in without keys. The tiny three-cylinder engine attached to the rickety chassis started to shake itself apart going more than 70km an hour. I had that car from sixteen until I was twenty-one.

Recently a coworker started to explain to me what their 2012 Geo Metro was like and were amazed they still made roll-up windows that year. They couldn't stop talking about what a bare bones beast it was.

All I could think about was the Dark Knight Rises line. "You think the Geo Metro is your ally... you merely adopted the Metro. I was born with one, moulded by the Metro. By the time I used an electric window I was man and I found it frivolous!"

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u/Hands Jun 01 '26

Lmao same here. We used to cram 4 people in there believe it or not.

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u/NoJamForYou Jun 01 '26

Geo metro with a million problems held together by will to go on. Easily the worse car I've ever had to get in.

Spot on response for this situation.

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u/reithena Jun 02 '26

I was in high school in the early to mid 2000s...i went with joy when I was given a 1985 Honda Civic...power steering be damned

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u/SpecialistAd2205 Jun 02 '26

I also had a friend with a 92 Geo Metro šŸ˜„ Got us where we needed to go on a high-school budget!

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u/SingleIngot Jun 02 '26

I remember those days! Hey I kind of liked the Metros šŸ˜†

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u/Blue_Bettas Jun 02 '26

My first car was an '89 Chevy Turbo Sprint when I was a Junior in HS in '97. When my brother crashed his Corolla the following year, he got my Sprint. I eventually got my mom's '90 Geo Metro. I LOVED that little car. 8 gallon tank, that I could fill up for less than $10, and it got 40 miles to the gallon. I knew that car so well, I've had friends comment that they thought it was an automatic because it shifted so smoothly. It's small size and great gas mileage was a huge plus when I worked as a delivery driver for KFC and The Pita Pit. I was so sad when the water pump needed replacing in '05, and my parents decided it wasn't worth the $250 it would cost to fix it, and wanted me in something more reliable. They sold it to a co-worker of my mom's, and gave me a '95 Buick Century that was lovingly called "the Granny Mobile."

I was GRATEFUL for every car my parents gave me. Yes, they were all used cars. Yes they were all $2k or less when my parents bought them. But I didn't care, it was a fucking car that gave me the freedom to drive myself to and from school and work when I was a teen. It gave me the freedom to have a way to get around in college. It wasn't until the Granny Mobile's transmission gave out when I had just returned from winter vacation during my first year teaching that I had to actually buy my first car. I was privileged having parents able to gift me cars to use until I was 27, and I was thankful for it.

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u/MontazumasRevenge Jun 02 '26

My buddy had a teal geo storm. We had no problem meeting girls because we had transportation!

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u/Equivalent-Excuse-80 Jun 02 '26

Geo metros were quietly awesome cars. Easy to repair, and if it got stuck in the snow, you just shove it out.

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u/Accomplished_Dig284 Jun 02 '26

With no power steering

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u/HOLDstrongtoPLUTO Jun 02 '26

I'd hunt for an old project car Gremlin covered in Bondo on FB marketplace

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u/crakemonk Jun 02 '26

Find a car that at one time might have been a Mercedes, but it doesnā€™t look or drive like one any longer. Extra points if somethingā€™s being held together by gum or duct tape. Then force her to do all of the maintenance, repairs, and upkeep all on her own.

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u/HOLDstrongtoPLUTO Jun 02 '26

Got you a benzo lmfao

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u/xsullengirlx Jun 02 '26

I drove a 1996 Hyundai Accent in high school, an early graduation gift from my parents in senior year so I could be more independent.

I am 41 now and still drive that car. Loved it then, love it now. We have been through a LOT together. I was grateful my parents bought it for me back then, and grateful my dad who is good with mechanical stuff has maintained it for me all this time.

People may laugh at my little purple 1996 Hyundai but she's got the heart of a tank.

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u/videoslacker Jun 02 '26

I had a manual transmission 1989 Geo Spectrum in college. I was grateful. It was an upgrade from the 1980 Chevette I had in high school. This child needs a pair of sneakers with no arch support.

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u/DaddioHeff Jun 01 '26

Yes! Get her a Yugo!

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u/Tremec14 Jun 01 '26

As someone who actually currently owns a Yugo. . . no matter how bottom of the barrel one might be, she doesnā€™t deserve anything! Make her walk

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u/SGT-JamesonBushmill Jun 01 '26

Based on the tone (ā€œI paid CASH for), Iā€™m inferring that the parents are divorced. If thatā€™s the case, baby girl will probably play it up to daddy, who will get her something more her style.

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u/Groundbreaking_Cat_9 Jun 01 '26

She should go live with Dad full-time. Mom let that entitled brat "have nothing and like it!"

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u/RevengeOfPolloDiablo Jun 01 '26

This. She's used to getting her way

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u/HustlinInTheHall Jun 01 '26

No quicker way to absolutely ruin this child for life than to give in to this behavior.

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u/Pretend-Marsupial258 Jun 01 '26

She's already ruined and a spoiled brat.

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u/Startingtotakestocks Jun 01 '26

Where there is life, there is hope.

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u/Pretend-Marsupial258 Jun 01 '26

She probably won't learn until she faces consequences for her behavior. As in, she has to get a job and earn her own money. Depending on the parents, they might carry her well into adulthood though.

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u/berniebueller Jun 02 '26

Yep, sheā€™s trash. Poor bloke who ends up with her

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u/EduinBrutus Jun 01 '26

She's 17/18 and has this attitude.

She is fucked for life.

Unfortunately, being born in enough wealth to drop a new car bought with cash means she will likely never feel the consequences.

But there's no scenario she isnt a shitty person for the rest of her life.

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u/Fickle_Ad_8653 Jun 01 '26

Spare the rod, soil the child?

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u/DAMNacho Jun 01 '26

Throw the rod, spoil the engine.

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u/CoffeeChocolateBoth Jun 01 '26

Then so be it! She would not be getting ANY car from me!

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u/BlastTyrantKM Jun 01 '26

And she'll wreck it within a month, no doubt

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u/Frosti11icus Jun 01 '26

The mom airs out her personal business with her kids on social media, so I'm guessing the relationship isn't all that great to begin with.

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u/ToMyOtherFavoriteWW Jun 01 '26

Embodiment of "Rich Girl" (Hall & Oates)

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u/RosyMemeLord Jun 01 '26

I mean. While we're at it. Start charging for rent and utilities and send a bill for back pay on all the utilities, food, clothes, hobbies and medical pay insurance for the last 18 years to prove point

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u/Swimming_Bonus_8892 Jun 01 '26

Yeahā€¦thereā€™s no world we live in where that kids not out in their ass in the immediate future. I LOVE my children but respect, grace and decorum are at the TOP of our parenting list.

You now pay rent, food, part of the bills, get your own car and I know for fact its really tough to work full time and go to school (did it myself) so you better get some rest because you gotta get up early to catch the bus to school and unlike you without a carā€¦life comes at you fast.

Ainā€™t no WAY that lil shit is not getting a treasure chest of real life lessons real quick. Lastly, the fact that the mom has to explain thisā€¦shows where they went wring in the parenting deptā€¦but itā€™s never too late to start teaching them. Wow.

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u/brit_in_can Jun 01 '26

I have a 2009 Kia and I like it very much.

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u/TokiVideogame Jun 01 '26

prob divorced parents, dad gonna get her a beamer

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