General Discussion

If you've ever owned a car that breaks down and you can't afford to fix it, but you need a car to drive to work and shop for necessities, you realize immediately that the so-called "freedoms" of our automobile culture are a complete sham.

Personally I resent the fact that I am forced to own a car in this society to be considered a fully functional adult. We are slaves.

The only thing that makes car ownership tolerable to me is that I've usually been able to afford and operate them, and I'm a pretty good mechanic who's perfectly content driving twenty year old cars that I got cheap.

I bought a new car once, about forty years when I was still young and foolish, but I'll never do that again. The car was approaching twenty years old when my children learned how to drive in it. Their friends learned how to drive cars with manual transmissions in it.

When my kids left home and could afford their own cars I gave it away to make room in our driveway for my next old car.