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06-17-2005, 05:29 PM
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Al the Vykker
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What difference does that make? You still once were a child, and you're still way too young to be driving something like a convertible. I used to know a girl from Illinois who got her full license as well as a car at 14. It's rediculous. This is what seems to be the norm, and parents even make it worse by buying their kids flashy cars, usually old American muscle cars like thunderbirds and such. You mentioned that you got a convertible, and that doesn't suprise me.

This is exactly the thing that's worrying, and makes me glad that I don't have to walk or drive down American streets.
Once again the bash america thing. Sorry bub but I paid for the car buying the convertable which for your information is 12 years old from my grandparents for 1500 dollars money I have earned through working. My mom took half the cost, and we share the car. I have to pay for the insurance myself as well. I also am not a rich spoiled kid my dad was out of work for a whole year because his company outsourced, and now has to do consulting work to maintain payments for the house and living expenses because this area especially in Illinois has such high taxes.

Were now putting my next brother through college starting this next year, and I have to get a new job to start saving even more money on my own to help my parents out. I'm now 17 and I was 16 when I get my license (the legal age to get a license not 14) and I have been a careful alert and cautious driver. Sure is it nice freedom of course, but I'm not ignorant or interested simply in muscle cars or wow lets race hehe! no. I use the car for transportation whether to run errands or drive to pick up friends or family, etc., or now for work. Sure a little drive as long as I keep myself alert is nice, or is a convertable nice in the summer, but it came for certain reasons the fact that my grandparents never used it too much and kept it in such nice condition and we needed a second car because our old one was breaking down and my mom needed a car for work and she decided since I got my license and was willing to get a job to share it with me. Not some cliche teenage rich pretty boy taking a joyride. Dont make assumptions when you dont know the story of my life is all Im saying. Just know that theres a lot of us out here who dont fall under your normal view point...

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