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Itching for a Bug

The bug hoping child was gifted a Honda Civic with 100k. It should be be a good learning experience.
Reality?
 
The problem with bugs is that they have zero crash protection. Not something I’d want my grand daughter driving.
 
Usually you get the bugs, then the itching starts.
 
What is this "car gifting" business?!?!

Kids are supposed to start working with all their free time at about age 14 to start saving for things like that.

Tell that kid to get a Schwinn 3-speed and a paper route, dag nabbit!!!
 
They're so spoiled they would just do them on e-bikes and never even have to struggle.

I remember riding that beast, dual metal rear basket racks on each side of the back wheel, another one off the handlebars over the front wheel.

My mom was amazing and took me out to deliver the early Sunday morning papers as They were 3-4x too big to fit on the bicycle.

There was one day a week when all the supplements and advertisements were added besides Sundays, that day sucked.

Also delivering in winter, snow or rain.

Pretty sure I was making like $15-20 a week
 
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augustiron said:
They're so spoiled they were just do them on e-bikes and never even have to struggle.

I remember riding that beast, dual metal rear basket racks on each side of the back wheel, another one off the handlebars over the front wheel.

My mom was amazing and took me out to deliver the early Sunday morning papers as They were 3-4x too big to fit on the bicycle.

There was one day a week when all the supplements and advertisements were added besides Sundays, that day sucked.

Also delivering in winter, snow or rain.

Pretty sure I was making like $15-20 a week
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Ah, I had many the paper route. We built up Schwinn Hevi Duti bikes to handle the load. The gang of paperboys ruled the world at 4:30 am on Sunday morning. I could hit the porches on my route in Cupertino at max peddoing speed. Er, not on Sunday.
Tips were good. Prolly still had the route as a senior in HS. Money was good. Very good. We had to collect door to door.
Abuse of youth!!!
 
Sunday's with about 60-70 customers on your route and all the inserts SUCKED, even more when it was raining and having to putting them in plastic bags. Everybody wanted their papers "porched", none of that on the lawn, sidewalk or driveway crap. Yeah, collection day(s) when they didn't answer the door and you knew they were home. Or tell ya to come back in a couple of days.
Luckily the route was flat. Sunday's we'd meet at the local bakery and get a couple still warn glazed donuts or a big maple bar then head to the "paper shack" where the paper bundles were dropped off. Oh, and be home by 8:30 so you can change clothes 'cause Church service was at 9AM.
 
Paper routes sucked. They never paid what the work was worth. But they did teach responsibility.
 
augustiron said:
What is this "car gifting" business?!?!

Kids are supposed to start working with all their free time at about age 14 to start saving for things like that.

Tell that kid to get a Schwinn 3-speed and a paper route, dag nabbit!!!
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I was "gifted" a car to use when I turned 16, but we lived about an hour from school, so it made sense. That, and my weekend job was to always to wash cars and wax them when needed...which I didn't mind at all. During the winter, that job was mostly on hold, given the snow, etc. I loved my 86' Grand Wagoneer. Never should've sold it....
 
I had to buy my first car. A rusted out 53 Ford. The last year they used the flathead V8. It was so rusted that water would splash up through the floorboards and soak my legs. It cost me 40 dollars.

And yes, we were poor.
 
The next car my father bought was a 52 Cadillac. Its rear was bashed in. Cost him 75 dollars. Not long after that he brought home a 53 Cadillac with a blown engine. He planned to do some sort of swap. It never got done.
 
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had a Schwinn 10 speed with a rack so the paperbag (the kind with a hole in between the 2 pouches for your head) would be like saddlebags. Sucked if the bag got caught in the spokes.
 
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