and that you can tell people whose first car wasn't old with a decent amount of rust, by how ridiculously distressed they get by a small problem, and who don't know how to change the oil or even open the bonnet.
Isn't it a rite of passage to have a car whose door's don't always shut properly, and who heating never works and whose windscreen wipers only work when they feel like it? Not to mention the place where the upholstery got torn when you tried to put someone's bike in the back seat.
I am always mildly horrified by teenagers who get given a new car by mum or dad. Just seems wrong somehow...
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to beleive that driving a series of clapped out old wrecks inculcates a worthwhile sense of independence and capability
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OrmRenewed · 11/02/2010 21:09
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