{"id":28581,"date":"2011-03-30T21:26:28","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T01:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=28581"},"modified":"2020-06-25T21:26:40","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T01:26:40","slug":"the-cost-of-car-sanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=28581","title":{"rendered":"The cost of car sanity"},"content":{"rendered":"

The guy I suspect is gay, who sits in the cube behind where I\u2019m currently sitting, bought a car, literally two days before I purchased mine.\u00a0 Despite the fact that while talking cars two weeks prior to our respective purchases, and me mentioning just how much I regretted purchasing a used car, and that crooked people will pay crooked mechanics crooked money in order to have things not appear on CarFaxes, he still went out and purchased a used car.\u00a0 A\u00a0Volkswagen Cabrio<\/b><\/span>, no less, which further justifies my suspicions about his sexual\u00a0orientation, despite the fact that he has a wife and two kids.<\/span><\/p>\n

But anyway, I thought I got a lot of flak for buying a car that was seven years old, but he went out and purchased a car that was\u00a0discontinued<\/i><\/span>\u00a0outright in\u00a02002<\/i><\/span>.\u00a0 Granted, his rationale was simply the fact that he did not want to have a car payment at all, which I can understand, but after the misery I just recently left behind, I\u2019m fairly confident that there\u2019s a very good chance that even my next-next car will be new, even if it means I\u2019m locked into a car loan for several years, at least I\u2019ll have the piece of mind that for all intents and purposes, I shouldn\u2019t have to worry about my car, for at least a year or so.<\/span><\/p>\n

Today, he\u2019s already griping about how his window is stuck down, which is kind of amazing, considering his model is power-nothing, so there\u2019s no regulators or window engines to have malfunctioned, simply his window crank is locked in place, and he can\u2019t fix it.\u00a0 Furthermore, the lock cylinder in one of his doors is already broken, meaning he\u2019s having to enter his car through the passenger seat.\u00a0 Man shit, even in the lemon, did I not have\u00a0these<\/i><\/span>\u00a0kind of problems.\u00a0 Regardless, it\u2019s this kind of backlash, that despite the fact that I\u2019ll be dumping a lot of money into a car payment for a lot of months, I still take solace in the fact that when we both leave work today, I\u2019ll be sitting on my cozy leather-heated seats, with the functioning windows, while he\u2019ll be chilly and miserable driving home to his week-old broken, already junker.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The guy I suspect is gay, who sits in the cube behind where I\u2019m currently sitting, bought a car, literally two days before I purchased mine.\u00a0 Despite the fact that while talking cars two weeks prior to our respective purchases, and me mentioning just how much I regretted purchasing a used car, and that crooked … Continue reading The cost of car sanity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[51,45,15,52],"class_list":["post-28581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-cars","tag-fail","tag-og","tag-owned"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28582,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28581\/revisions\/28582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}