<p>I don’t believe you took any of our heartfelt messages to heart. We are VERY serious and hope that you are not as heartless and self-centered as you sound. We also hope that despite their grief at raising a person as selfish as you, your parents have the backbone to say NO to you to getting ANY vehicle. You certainly show absolutely NO understanding of your family’s situation and no understanding of the how hard it is to actually earn money–doesn’t appear anywhere that you’ve ever earned any of it yourself. SHAME ON YOU! Some day, I hope you realize how shallow and foolish YOU sound. I hope you print out this thread and share it with your family, so they can see your true feelings and what parents think of your misplaced values.</p>
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<p>Oh, come on. I’m not a parent but I’ve been following this thread, and “this is such a pity”? I’m seventeen and I don’t have a car nor are there any plans to buy me one in the near future. I don’t really care; my parents don’t owe me one. Yesterday I went shopping for a college bedding set and I chose the $39 one that wasn’t as nice as the $180 ones, but gets the job done just the same. The prom dress I have picked out is last season and over 50% off, and I’m chosing a public college over my dream private. For perspective, my family makes over double what yours does, so it’s not as if we’re living in decrepit poverty. Anyway, I know I don’t really belong in this thread but count me as a teenager you should not feel embarrassed for, because my parents hold the same values as the posters in this thread.</p>
<p>Blkbox, thanks for getting eyeballs to this thread. Maybe we can get some mom’s interested in my son. :)</p>
<p>Now that you’ve asked, GA2012MOM,and others. Surely you’ve read DS’s stats. Preliminary, he’s now 25, working, enjoys snow skiing, hiking, camping, bikes to work, foodie, friends. Has a Camry '97 that’s well maintained.</p>
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<p>Shame on us? Embarrassment to our kids? Thank goodness we must be doing something right as parents. Print this thread and give it to your parents. There will probably be a huge fault line from the hole that they hope swallows them up for having raised a child who thinks nothing of giving them his a** to kiss and thinks that he deserves a 40k car to boot. </p>
<p>I take solace in the fact that my kid understands and gets it, and would not even fix her mouth to formulate a sentence that has buy me a 40k car in it!</p>
<p>Whose money is it that you’re spending? How much have you earned?</p>
<p>I’ll assume you’re over 18, and if so, your parents owe you nothing. The fact that they’ve already given you a college education is extremely generous, and many people here wish that their parents were so generous.</p>
<p>Your sense of entitlement makes you sound like an ungrateful brat. You have “saved” them nothing but out of the goodness of their hearts, they have given you money for an education. </p>
<p>You should feel eternally grateful and thank them profusely. And save your own money for therapy, which you’ll badly need after you recover from your inflated, unrealistic sense of entitlement.</p>
<p>Hopefully one day you’ll all realize how ridiculous you all sounded in this thread and i will get an apology from each and every one of you. You all should be very ashamed!</p>
<p>ROTFLMAO</p>
<p>Don’t hold your breath. Seriously. No parent here has said anything that is deserving of any shame. You asked how you could (guilt) your (modest income) parents into buying you a very expensive car - at a cost that would surely negatively impact their day to day lifestyle - so that you could enjoy all of the admiring glances from your peers. And, you think we should be ashamed? I truly wonder about your reasoning skills.</p>
<p>Folks, do we really believe this is an actual true situation, and not just a ■■■■■? There are enough pages to raise my eyebrows … I may actually read this thread</p>
<p>Oh, good God! Maybe the $40,000 automobile was more reasonable than I first thought:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/high-school-life/1094804-how-get-my-parents-get-new-house.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/high-school-life/1094804-how-get-my-parents-get-new-house.html</a>.</p>
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<p>Is this the same person, or just another self entiltled kid? Are you kidding me?</p>
<p>Is Wesley related to blkbox?</p>
<p>Read on MisterK…it’s very entertaining reading.</p>
<p>**I guess we parents are just clay & need to be molded to do our kids’ will?!?!? WOW, just wow! **</p>
<p>The kid doesn’t even know the size of the room he is complaining about or what size room he aspires to have. Makes you wonder about this kid–I think a gap year or more working minimum wage at WalMart, McDonald’s, or similar would do a world of good for kids like this, including the OP here & on the companion thread.</p>
<p>On our worst, most self-absorbed day in our lives, neither H, me, nor either of my kids nor my sibs or nieces or nephews was like either of those posters, thank goodness!</p>
<p>All I can say after reading both threads is thank God these aren’t my kids! I’d disown them.</p>
<p>I sincerely hope the OP has left this thread to go sign up for a math class - I thought they required that subject in every college gen. ed. curriuculum?- but I’ve been hard pressed to find any evidence that the OP has any basic financial understanding at all! I find myself curious as to what OP plans to major in (film studies with all the cool kids?) - surely he’s never seen the inside of an economics class…</p>
<p>Part of me wants to believe OP is a ■■■■■ - but I have known other entitled youngsters and the thought processes can be mindboggling - along with the absence of math skills!</p>
<p>^ OP said he is going to major in political science. He also said in another thread that it’s harder than engineering.</p>
<p>OK, I read the thread. Crazy funny. But I must say, this really is a classic ■■■■■ all the way.</p>
<p>As the kids like to say, you’ve all been “pwned.”</p>
<p>MisterK-
The parents were having as much fun with this thread as the ■■■■■ OP. They weren’t played.</p>
<p>^^^
I think that we’re supposed to say, “cool story bro.” That’s the way to recognize the mastery of the ■■■■■, the pure pwnership, the total pwnage of the Parents Forum.</p>
<p>jym - hmmm, maybe some of the parents were “leveling”.</p>
<p>Don’t think the parents have to say anything in any particular way to respond to a ■■■■■. Personally, I much prefer the wit they display in many of the posts here. Many are very clever and its very amusing.</p>
<p>umad? come at me, bro</p>
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<p>Loser!!! You KNOW how to rescue his social life for only 40K.</p>