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saying in advance there's probably not much advice i don't already have, i just wanted to blather this somewhere, and somewhere is xltronic. i used to have , but then some lady on her cell phone realized she was about to rearend a truck and changed lanes and it was sort of like the breakdown in a really intense track, like, shit, jesus christ. you stupid bitch. you killed my car. while i'm on my way to look at a room because i have to move out of the place i'm in. i am between jobs and shit broke, also. ultimately, i opt to buy a car for half of what they gave me for my car (because, actually, there was not even an attempt at an argument -- the lady was all 'i done fucked up') and promptly wound up with 1/3 of the car, and enough money to stop my storage locker from being evicted. it has been an ok car. the nice thing about having a crappy car is you don't have to give a shit. somone banged a shopping cart into it? who can tell. you spilled french fries all over the mat? cool however, it is starting to reach the point where maintenance is an issue. it's also so old no one has the parts, we have to order the parts a week ago, they told me they have to order the parts. i make an appointment for today, the next saturday, as i work in the center of the city, leave in the morning, get home at 7:30. i wander down to a bar, nurse a beer or two for an hour or three, give them a call. they don't have the parts. they were supposed to have the parts. but they don't have the parts, he explains "should i just come pick up my car?" i ask. "uhhh yeah i want you to have your car for your saturday," he says. meaning, i might not even have it back monday. "i'll be over in 20 minutes," i reply, and signal the waitress for the tab |
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like, tuesday or something, they will call me back, and be all "can you come in at thursday at 11:30?" and at that point i might start to pretend i don't speak english. |
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Are you content, epic, in general? |
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i will be a bit moreso once i get a new car. i didn't want to do it quite this soon. sigh |
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I’ve never owned a car. I’ve driven a few times but don’t have a license. |
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it's impossible to get by in most areas of the US without one. it's a big country |
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Depends if you need to travel a lot. I’m sure a lot of people in the US don’t move about much. Yet they still use their car for just about everything. I get that it’s big, Geoff. Back when it was time to do I lived in London and had no use for it. I might do it some day. I’d like to get to feel that freedom you must get. |
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i might lose my license cos its the first renewal i'd make after i was diagnosed thums up life |
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in the meantime im no more a courier thanks god |
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Wishing you all the best mo! |
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if it depends from my psychiatrist i should be alright, otherwise fuck it, cant even afford car and the insurance anyway |
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im doing with public transportation since 3 years straight btw |
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you just have to have legs, which is not granted |
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Legs are kinda granted, no? I used public transport and usually don’t leave my town in which everything is within walking distance. Mind you plenty of people still take the bus to get from one part of town to the other. Apparently Phoenix is the town with the less walking being done in the world. Some people drive down their driveways (and I don’t mean very long fancy ones) to get their mail from their letterbox. Plenty of people in the US, which I hear is very big, gonfood shopping in their car and never get out of it. |
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I use public transport * |
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public transport in the US varies, but it's usually crap. if you compare the UK to california, the UK is the little ball bearing inside a spraypaint can. california has, last i heard, approximately seven privately-owned "public" transit systems, and none of them talk to each other, or transfer balances. but then the state is like 1000 miles long and that's a lot of shit to connect. in the south, you do get things like "drive-through liquor stores" where you put in an order and they load up your trunk. i've never seen this is person, mind you, but i'm told it exists |
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if i didn't have a car i'd have to either uber to the store and back with groceries or use instacart, and, well, i do say i feel that's much worse on the scale of post-modern twatism |
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