Her Friends Were Always Mocking Her For Driving An Old Car, So She Finally Told Them Their Expensive Cars Were “Useless Status Symbols” That Were A Bad Investment
When this thirty-year-old woman was in high school, her parents helped her buy a Honda. And ever since then, she has kept the old car.
It is now fourteen years old but has been really reliable over the years. Plus, she never really cared about how old her car was.
After all, it gets her where she needs to go, and she really just does not see a point in wasting money on flashy cars.
Well, two of her friends do not exactly agree with her perspective. One of her friends has an Audi SUV, and the other owns a BMW SUV– both of which were bought brand new off the lot.
But because they spent so much money on these vehicles, both of her friends still live in pretty bad apartments.
“I don’t understand why someone would buy a seventy thousand dollar car when that money could be used toward saving for a home,” she explained.
Still, she does not believe that anyone else’s financial decisions are her business, so she has never voiced her opinion on her friends’ purchases.
Yet, her friends are always asking her why she drives “an old beater” when she has a well-paying job and can easily afford a “nicer” ride.
“And when I say always, I mean it comes up every time we hang out,” she revealed.
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So, as you can imagine, the constant mocking gets pretty annoying. And in the past, she has often tried to just shut her friends down or change the topic.
For instance, she commonly reminds her friends that she plans to drive the Honda until it dies and then brings up another topic of conversation. Recently, though, she was forced to speak up for herself once and for all.
For context, she just finally bought her own house– an accomplishment that so many people look forward to in life. Rather than celebrating that, though, her friends continued to make her Honda a talking point.
In fact, they actually started ragging on her about how she is going to have such a nice house yet park the old Honda in the driveway. Her friends claimed it was “a shame” and that her car was going to be such an eyesore.
And at that moment, she was sick of hearing about her car and decided to tell her friends off once and for all.
She first told them that she chose not to buy a new car because cars are simply expensive. But then, after her friends continued forcing the topic and claiming they did not understand how they could afford nice cars and she couldn’t, she finally spoke her mind.
“I said, ‘Well, I don’t understand how I can afford a house and you guys can’t. Maybe it’s because of all the money you have wasted on your useless status symbols,” she told her friends.
“I can afford to buy fancy German cars like yours, but it is a bad investment and a waste of money.”
And after that, her friends became seriously pissed off. They accused her of being a jerk for calling their cars “useless status symbols” and claimed that they worked hard to buy their cars– just like she worked hard to buy her home.
Plus, her comments have since caused a huge rift to develop in the friend group, and things are a bit awkward now.
Honestly, though, she feels like her friends had it coming, and she would never have said anything about their financial decisions if they did not constantly mock hers.
But, at the same time, she never wanted to intentionally hurt her friends and has been left wondering if clapping back at them was the wrong way to handle the situation.
Why do you think her friends were always trying to degrade her financial choices? Do you also believe that saving up for a house is a better financial investment than buying a fancy car and renting? If you had been in her shoes, would you have told your friends off, too?
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