Posted on 01/26/2003 12:09:55 PM PST by ChemistCat
(I drive an '89 Civic in good shape except for the dent in the side when an idiot neighbor ran into it.)
Good thought. I don't know any of those, but I know a lot of parents of same.
"A few dollars for fluids every few months vs. a years salary evrey few years"
Why this concept is elusive is elusive to me.
I'm a regular working stiff, yet I appear rich to the others drawing the same measly ever shrinking pay.
The only dif. is the above quote.
I keep it clean & polished(only exercise I get), and when folks comment on it's unusualness & how nice it looks they often ask "What year is it?" because it doesn't look like an upside down bathtub like all the rest.
Then the secret of my wealthy lifestyle is revealed;
"It's 15 years old & cost less than a thousand."
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