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Angel_Above
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Life's Impassable Walls
#21681345 - 05/15/15 12:00 AM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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So my car is dying.
I have no savings as I spent most of it paying back student loans from university a few years back.
Now I'm back in school, so paying those, and the my older loans, while working as much as possible.
Still doesn't leave much headway. Car is going to die in like a week and then it's valueless minus the junking.
I'm really scared.
I have no savings, without a car idk what I can possibly do. Maybe I'm irresponsible but now that I'm back in school I have been making like 450 dollar school payments (from university) each month on a 200 dollar a week pay from work while going to school full time again.
ugh
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MichAnon.ael
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Ya see? This is a good fucking slave right here. Bustin his balls and stressing out because information and knowledge are`t free in the white mans world.
now go to work so you can buy a house someone will steal half of and get paid for their thievery.
sounds like a win win to me.
in all seriousness to you, op, have faith. It's all just monitary. Like all things this too shall pass. :hugs:
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Angel_Above
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Thanks for the love. THis planet is so backwards.
I've learned more from the internet than in school, period.
Wish it wasn't like this at all.
I'm just afraid that without a car well, maybe I'll have to off myself eventually I mean fuck if I can't work or go to school what am I gonna do? Resort to living at my parents house just hoping to win big on the lottery or something?
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edos



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tough times suck, but you will adapt and you will prevail
good luck friend
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Re: Life's Impassable Walls [Re: Angel_Above] 1
#21681390 - 05/15/15 12:25 AM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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I got drunk, dont remember passing out on my friend's couch, but he had to go to work the next day so he kicked me out, still drunk. I was weaving all over the road, lost as shit. Car ran out of gas, and I started to walk down the highway...for about 2 hours. Finally got to a store where I thought I knew where I was at, come to find out I'm not in (this city) I'm 2 hours away in (this city)! Call my wife to pick me up, she tells me in no uncertain terms to fuck off. I realize I was walking in the wrong direction. Walk back 5 hours North. Finally get home and my wife wants a divorce, and I can't remember where I parked the car, also, my wallet is inside it.
Drive around half the night looking looking looking finally give up and call 3-1-1. The car was towed (probably the best news I got all night) but...my wallet isn't in it, and it had the cards with all the rest of our money on them, so the car's still in the tow lot.
Oh, and to top it off, as I was walking, I had to take a massive shit! And there was nowhere to go so I crept behind this abandoned building to do the deed, grabbed some leaves to wipe, thank God I have hand sanitizer in my bag! Start to walk off and notice my asshole is being stung by what seems like a dozen fire ants. Actually, it wasn't ants it was poison sumac or poison oak. So now I have a ring of red blisters around my balloon knot.
All in all, a wonderful fucking day.
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Angel_Above
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Jeez man.
You seem to be handling it okay, maybe its just the internet.
I woulda probably ended up fuming until someone got hurt if that happened to me. Sorry sir
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Re: Life's Impassable Walls [Re: Angel_Above] 1
#21681443 - 05/15/15 12:46 AM (8 years, 8 months ago) |
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Just trying to put it all in perspective.
Someone's always got it better and worse than us, right?
Still not sure how to get my 15,000$ car out of a tow lot that'll charge me 230$.
Kinda absurd, isn't it? Heh, well, thanks for the kind wishes, I hope you get your stuff sorted as well.
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makaveli8x8
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how is your car dieing? maybe we can help find u a cure
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SoupSandwich




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Ran out of gas. Easy to fix, but now it's locked up and we're broke.
It's either my insurance policy, or the car.
Or,,,get the car out and turn around and sell it.
None of which sounds appealing to me.
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Psychonautica
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He most likely was talking to op and not you soup.
Also you poison ivied your bunghole? That's so shitty.
Pun intended.
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ReposadoXochipilli
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Quote:
SoupSandwich said: I got drunk, dont remember passing out on my friend's couch, but he had to go to work the next day so he kicked me out, still drunk. I was weaving all over the road, lost as shit. Car ran out of gas, and I started to walk down the highway...for about 2 hours. Finally got to a store where I thought I knew where I was at, come to find out I'm not in (this city) I'm 2 hours away in (this city)! Call my wife to pick me up, she tells me in no uncertain terms to fuck off. I realize I was walking in the wrong direction. Walk back 5 hours North. Finally get home and my wife wants a divorce, and I can't remember where I parked the car, also, my wallet is inside it.
Drive around half the night looking looking looking finally give up and call 3-1-1. The car was towed (probably the best news I got all night) but...my wallet isn't in it, and it had the cards with all the rest of our money on them, so the car's still in the tow lot.
Oh, and to top it off, as I was walking, I had to take a massive shit! And there was nowhere to go so I crept behind this abandoned building to do the deed, grabbed some leaves to wipe, thank God I have hand sanitizer in my bag! Start to walk off and notice my asshole is being stung by what seems like a dozen fire ants. Actually, it wasn't ants it was poison sumac or poison oak. So now I have a ring of red blisters around my balloon knot.
All in all, a wonderful fucking day. 
Damn! That is a bad day
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SoupSandwich




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Yeah, hate to steal Angel_Above's thunder, just been meaning to vent all day.
Seemed appropriate at the time.
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ReposadoXochipilli
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Vent away man, I don't think he minds sharing. I don't have any advice for your situation... Had a friend end up abandoning a car to impound due to fees. As for the poisen ivy well fuck that ! Insult to injury right there.
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SoupSandwich




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Well man, the thing is, about two weeks ago I had this complete break with my wife. I was coming out of a deep, deep funk. I hadn't left the house, in years, virtually. I mean, I'd go to the grocery and whatnot but anyways, so I had this big thing on Facebook where I got in touch with all these HS buddies I hadn't talked to in a decade, maybe two.
My wife is bitching the whole way down there, 'you're not gonna drink too much are youuu?" Etc etc. Finally, I was like, "Listen if you want to stay behind, feel free!" And she did just that. This was a First Friday thing, so about two weeks ago, and people are walking all over the place so I didn't feel too bad.
SO, I meet with my friends I haven't seen in forever, and I'm texting my wife to come over, come over, blah blah blah, she comes and I'm trying to give her a hug (I'd had a few drinks and was genuinely pleased to see her) and she gives me the cold shoulder and !bam! starts flirting with this one friend of mine for all the world to see.
This guy makes like $500k a year and flies to Japan and all this so of course she's super interested, and we had to just sit there and watch my wife give me the cold shoulder and fawn over this ...fucking guy. Even my friends were like, "the fuck is wrong with your wife?"
So, needless to say that was a huge split.
Now this.
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makaveli8x8
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so why don't u ask your $500k friend to buy u a new car or something for letting your wife flirt with him?
U still married? or in process of breaking up?
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twelvelookslikeu
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Angel what is your car doing. Why do you think it is dying?
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Life is hard, but then I always think about how much better off I have it.
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SoupSandwich




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I think I pissed him off that night by asking him to drop the bullshit (talking about his cars, his 10,000$ grill, his visits to Japan, etc) and tell us what's really going on in his life.
Hasn't talked to me since. 
P.S. As far as I know, we're about to have a divorce and I'll be homeless. Should make my posts a little more interesting, at the least...
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Angel_Above
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twelvelookslikeu said: Angel what is your car doing. Why do you think it is dying?
First... started with having NO HEAT. Had a neighbor look at it. Flushed radiator, replaced water pump/thermostats (mine has 2), and still the bottom hose of the radiator got no heat. Randomly service engine light would come on but it synced with me getting gas at Sonic (always turns it on for some reason).
Tried burping it (i don't have a bleeder) several times, assuredly hoping it was just air in the tank.
Then my dad was fixing his spark plugs, figured what the hell it's $20 I'll buy my son some and do his.
So we do that, get past the valve gasket cover and there's TONS of oil in the spark plug holes or whatever they're called. LIke lots! WE cleaned that, scraped the gasket, replaced the whole o-ring gasket system (they don't jsut sell o-rings, I had to pay 135 for a brand new kit).
3 weeks later, have another guy look cuz the heat still wouldn't work. THis winter was cold! I drive like 35 minutes to-from work everyday. imagine that in a car that DOESN'T defrost when it's like -30 with the wind chill. COOOOOLD.
Well the other guy says "well there was oil in your spark plug holes (idk what theyre called im sorry guys)" and I'm all like WTF we just replaced it... whatever .
Then he determines "the heat is likely due to a cracked head gasket. the piece is cheap, but with labor, involvin taking the whole engine apart and taking it out and putting it back in, is about $3000"
I bought my car for 5500 a few years back used.
It's got structural damage. Floorboard rusted out on passenger side (they're working on a recall for this exact reason inb this exact spot for this exact model, so taht could work for me), busted up my side view mirror and replaced but it's a different color, no heat still, some dents, some smoke burns, so idk if it's worth anything.
UPDATE TO TODAY: So when I drive, it shakes, and takesa a while to kick into gear (it's automatic). I probably said this already but this is the only post you need to read to understand my dilemma totally. I'll be accelerating, pressing the pedal, it stays at whatever RPM it was at before and then ZOOMS me forward all jaggedly for whatever reason. THEN my check engine light has been on and now it FLASHES. THat's really bad news bears, everytime it misfires it's causing engine trouble.
I HAVE TO by june 5 get my emissions done. I just wanna fix it enought o get rid of the check engine light, do emissions, and sell to carmax as I don't have anything on my carfax really.
Went to AutoZone yesterday, "it's either you need a tune-up and replace spark plugs or a catalytic converter"
well that's BAD NEWS because oil is going to just leak back into the engine block, so unless I want to replace them every month it's just a done deal car. ON top of that, I refill my coolant like every 2-3 weeks. Apparently the cracked head gasket can cause oil or coolant to leak out into the engine block?
I"M A CAR IDIOT PLEASE DONT MAKE ME FEEL DUMB IF YOU HAVE TO CORRECT ME.
THanks for listening.
Your situation is far worse Soup and I implore more people to share!
I'm just scared... I have 0 dollars for savings, make 200 a week, owe 400 or so a month for university, am now attending community college so i have to make payments on that.
LIterally have 200 dollars to my name, make 200 a week, have to make insurance payment within a month, 350 payment for school, and pay my mom back for spotting me for community college.
UGH I feel so fucked like I literally CANT do anything to fix my car without a lottery miracle, and I can't work/go to school without a car.
My family is driving me places now but I hate being a burden. Ya ya they love me blah blah it's a burden. Feel terribly suicidal for some reason. like i'm sick of being 25, being forced to live at home due to that, not finishing my useless biochem degree (didnt wanna do grad school so a degree in that is useless) and owing 30 thousand on that, found a new path in life to take, found a good girlfriend...
Just all this stuff. If I have to keep my $12 an hour job n make 200 a week I won't get a car for years and years.
My program starts 2016 for 2 years then I'll be an ultrasound tech. The pay is decent, it's something I would thoroughly enjoy. Just hate the concept of being such a slave....
like I am putting off my happiness all the time but you know what I wanna enjoy the present! damn it. Seems I won't be able to for some time.
Thanks for letting mke rant.
C_S I missed you man! Haven't seen you around in a bit don't know if you remember me. you were a chill dude.
As much as I want to agree with you, I look at life more like we "chose" from a spiritual perspective the type of theme we wanted to live.
Some poor africans/chinese people don't care to be any more rich. I do see your point though.
Edited by Angel_Above (05/15/15 04:36 PM)
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