Or whose parents were intelligent enough to prepare their kid for the real world and not just give them handouts and to be responsible? Being poor has nothing to do with it nor does being shitty parents.

My dad is an accountant and would not even help me get my own credit card. He would help me all I wanted if I had questions regarding them but would not co-sign on one or pay for it. He could have easily afforded to buy me a car, pay for all my bills, and give me whatever I wanted but chose not to. I also had a job the moment I turned 16 and worked for everything I've done.


I wasn't going to chime in but this user struck me as one of those ungrateful spoon-fed kids....

 

I ended up pushing the thing the first 15 minutes i learned how to drive stick and raced a rx8, wrx and a civic in the same day (felt like paul walker for 5 minutes). I felt like the king of the world until on the way home

i like how you put that, then proceed to tell us how mature you are.

 

I get the "prepare for the real world" thing. What I don't get is the sense of moral superiority. As if your parents not handing you anything made you morally superior.

Sure, preparation for the real world is important. But that's not all the real world is about. There's this whole thing about wits and intelligence. Oh, and networking. It's not what you know. It's who you know.

The recipe for success in life isn't just financial management. There's lots of other things that "spoon-fed" kids may excel at that you simply don't.

[QUOTE=JLUDE,Aug 25 2010, 05:20 AM]Are you implying that if you were not given a car when you start driving...that your parent's must have treated you like shit?

My parents wanted me to learn to manage my finances and make responsible choices.

 

LOL at "being given a fixed sum per month" being comparable to the "real world."



Nobody has anything against privileged kids, people just don't really appreciate when they start spouting off about how cool they are for it at every opportunity.

 

yesss max I was waitin for your post

 

lmfao you guys are acting like the s2000 is fast car... it handles well, if anything that makes it safer?

I just bought mine at 27, love it to death, it's boosted, but still not THAT fast... hell there are tons of off the shelf cars that are easier to get into trouble with.

 

wow you look like a <???>

no offense

 

i love my s2k coming from 5 previous miatas, yes 5, the s2k fun factor is way higher, it is plenty fast out of the box, the s2k is way more fun in corners then strait line anyway, now stop arguing about speed and go hit some corners! although the miata can still murder most cars on the tracks( auto x), i will probably own one again soon. I remember my friend w a stock miata just some compound tires, destroyed a corvettes time by almost 5 seconds on the local track! thats some serious business, HP isnt everything

 

hahaha too funny

 

I got a chuckle out of that too. But then, lots of us fall under that category; the difference being, that "fixed sum per month" is called our salaries.

But, I won't knock the OP. You sound like a mature guy. When I was 20 I bought a '96 Camaro SS. After owning it for about 6 months I decided that I wasn't old enough to own that car yet. My reason wasn't that I felt it was too dangerous; I never did anything crazy with that car. I thought financially it was too much for me. I didn't want gas, insurance, etc... to eat up all of my income. Luckily I sold it for more than I bought it for after my 6 month foray.