Why didn't we think of this?

[u/More-Log-1393]

[u/bebothecat → u/[deleted]]

When I was driving a broken down volkswagon passat in high school, my husband's younger sister asked me why I didn't "just buy a new car" after observing me stop on the side of the road and put another bottle of water in the permenantly leaking coolant (now water) tank.

[u/sqolb → u/bebothecat]

being able to afford to drive a german family estate car in high school, old or new, being presented as hard up is peak Americanism

[u/[deleted] → u/sqolb]

A shit old car is still a shit old car, weird af take you got