i went to the gas station to fill up today.
my soul died a little today.
in the one year i've been driving "my" own car, gas prices have gone up a full dollar. my parents bought "me" a pretty fuckin nice car because my mom is a safety freak and didn't want me driving anything over 5 years old and anything with less than a perfect crash rating. hell, the only reason "I" got a car at all is so that i could take my siblings to school get them from various sports practices (we all play during the same two seasons so that works out well for me), get them to and from friends' houses, and run various errands for them. it also helps that i'm the sole photographer for my highschool's newspaper and that means going to all the sporting events. my parents obviously struggle to make all this work out when they have 3 kids at home so they decided to get "me" a car to make life easier for them. so i got landed with a blue 2005 ford mustang, whose previous owner died of a heart attack. good thing i'm only 18 or i might have followed after today. by the way, i say "I," "me" and "my" because its really my dad's car. so long as i behave i get to drive it, but if i mess up at all, even on little things like accidentally snapping at my mother after a long and tiring day ( i say little because i always recognize it and apologize right after, seeing as she gave birth to me and all).
anyhoo, they bought the car and pay for the insurance, which is fantastic for me, but only pay for the gas it takes me to get to and from whatever errands they send me on and for school. i have to log it all and then they pay me back at the price i paid for gas when i filled up. anything else, including my photography position, i have to pay for myself. and after subtracting what they have me doing its not that much driving. but crap, i've burned through almost 3/4s of my $3,000 life savings.
enough with the heart-wrenching diatribe; i know you're all just sobbing.
gas broke 4 bucks where i live this week. i paid 4.05 & 9/10 today. i put in 20 bucks with somewhere between a fourth and an 8th of a tank left and got to just barely over half a tank. when i started driving that would get me to 7/8ths from the gas light easy.
pic cause it happened.
i can't wait until i get to college next year. i'm going to a school in a city with public transit that actually works. its also a place i can actually bike. i'll never bike anywhere where i live for one reason: every single time i'm on the road i see at least ten people distracted enough to drive in the bike lane for at least a half mile. sorry, but i don't want to die.
edit: i guess i should clarify this: its not so much the fact that gas is 4 dollars a gallon as it is that its up so much from only a year ago.
my soul died a little today.
in the one year i've been driving "my" own car, gas prices have gone up a full dollar. my parents bought "me" a pretty fuckin nice car because my mom is a safety freak and didn't want me driving anything over 5 years old and anything with less than a perfect crash rating. hell, the only reason "I" got a car at all is so that i could take my siblings to school get them from various sports practices (we all play during the same two seasons so that works out well for me), get them to and from friends' houses, and run various errands for them. it also helps that i'm the sole photographer for my highschool's newspaper and that means going to all the sporting events. my parents obviously struggle to make all this work out when they have 3 kids at home so they decided to get "me" a car to make life easier for them. so i got landed with a blue 2005 ford mustang, whose previous owner died of a heart attack. good thing i'm only 18 or i might have followed after today. by the way, i say "I," "me" and "my" because its really my dad's car. so long as i behave i get to drive it, but if i mess up at all, even on little things like accidentally snapping at my mother after a long and tiring day ( i say little because i always recognize it and apologize right after, seeing as she gave birth to me and all).
anyhoo, they bought the car and pay for the insurance, which is fantastic for me, but only pay for the gas it takes me to get to and from whatever errands they send me on and for school. i have to log it all and then they pay me back at the price i paid for gas when i filled up. anything else, including my photography position, i have to pay for myself. and after subtracting what they have me doing its not that much driving. but crap, i've burned through almost 3/4s of my $3,000 life savings.
enough with the heart-wrenching diatribe; i know you're all just sobbing.
gas broke 4 bucks where i live this week. i paid 4.05 & 9/10 today. i put in 20 bucks with somewhere between a fourth and an 8th of a tank left and got to just barely over half a tank. when i started driving that would get me to 7/8ths from the gas light easy.
pic cause it happened.
i can't wait until i get to college next year. i'm going to a school in a city with public transit that actually works. its also a place i can actually bike. i'll never bike anywhere where i live for one reason: every single time i'm on the road i see at least ten people distracted enough to drive in the bike lane for at least a half mile. sorry, but i don't want to die.
edit: i guess i should clarify this: its not so much the fact that gas is 4 dollars a gallon as it is that its up so much from only a year ago.
Last edited by Ender2309 (2008-05-11 13:14:21)