A luxury car complete with touchscreens, back when a touchscreen was magical and revolutionary. Car maintenance and privacy concerns have taught me to love the very opposite, a 90s Chevy.
At first I was embarrassed & disappointed that my new car had no futuristic modern features whatsoever, just old-fashioned tactile knobs & buttons. But seeing all the Tesla & electric car fiascos & nonsense over the past year, I’m now ridiculously grateful for this basic vehicle I have.
I was on the Tesla 3 waiting list many years ago. When I hit the top of the list I wasn’t totally ready to buy it just yet so I stalled. Eventually I got moved to the Tesla Y list and again waited while family things sorted out. In the end, I got my reservation money back and I’m very very very glad that I didn’t buy:
- A new car for no real reason (I drove my 2004 Subaru for another 10 years or so)
- A car product that’s turning out to be of terrible longevity
- From a Nazi
Drove the 2004 Subaru until we sold it and moved to a country where we don’t need a car at all. Much better way of life.
I haven’t heard about the terrible longevity. They even top the consumer reports list for EVs. What sorts of longevity issues are there?
drugs
A motorbike. I’ve had a few close calls in a car, I don’t think it would have worked out well (2 wheels instead of 4) on a motorbike.
So many things. But for some reason the only one I can think of right now is in 2003 I wanted a memory foam mattress so urgently I could cry. We had no furniture whatsoever. But in retrospect I’m glad we didn’t get a mattress because everything is temporary and everything I’ve ever acquired has poofed into oblivion anyway. Best to live without. Poverty builds character. I guess.
A perm. I wanted one so bad back in the 80s. Luckily my hairdresser, who was my whole family’s hairdresser and a friend too, refused. She was a tiny Thai lady who was a force of nature, had a little half basement salon in DC. We would all go and get our hair cut together, I think mostly because there was a pub nearby my dad could go have drinks at while he waited for us.
I’m sure that her reasoning was sound in that it would destroy my hair, but I also think both her and my mom knew how terrible it would look since I’m lazy af and wouldn’t style it. Over the years I’ve only ever dyed my hair a handful of times, never curled or straightened it, no product as I can’t stand the feeling of it. I think it’s helped keep it healthy and now as I’m hitting later 40s and finally know how to really care for it (and have a hairdresser that understands my curls), it’s FABULOUS. Very little grey, big curls and ringlets. It’s the hair I’ve always wanted. Still don’t do shit to it lol. Lazy ftw!
A live in girlfriend with a good job so I could stay home, grow weed and play video games. God i was stupid
Is it because you would have never challenged yourself and became a better person? And now you have done that so it’s okay if you get that now?
I just wouldn’t want to be someone’s pet
A spouse, because they would have (and still do) deserve better.
