Two Students Cars at my School

F14CRAZY said:

Night vision > Corvette

I often parked my Reatta in the teacher's lot and never got in trouble. I don't think my school cared. Hell in that 4 years I NEVER displayed a parking permit

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Lucky

At my college I had put the parking decal under the blue tint strip

TICKET!!!

And of course somehow they had "real" municipal parking tickets - 42$

I yelled at the school bureaucracy eventually I had this deleted...

But at high school? Oh yeah never ever I just drove there and parked. There was something in the agenda about "registering a car" but I never did.

mikmak said:

It never ceases to amaze me how easily people assume the worst of others. Is the assessment really made through personal experience, or just from plain assumptions? In this case, it clearly is from assumptions. As stated, the owner of the Corvette is a responsible driver and a girl. There is nothing saying that she can or can't have it. In fact, in the so called land of the free, it seems every one is too eager to degrade others that exercise that right to choose. It seems that if someone has more than you, they must be undeserving or a bad person. Ya bunch of hypocritical sooks.

Are you saying that when/if ou have kids and you could afford to buy them whatever you/they want, you would stick to something slow? I on the other hand, would give my kid their choice, if I was happy with their level of maturity and capability. This would very likely be the case with the Corvette girl because really, if she had no idea about cars, chances are she would have gone for a true 2+2 coupe so she could cram as many shopping bags in as possible.

I actually applaud the fact that 2 kids, whom obviously had a pretty good range of vehicles to choose from, decided that a pair of domestics would make them happy.

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Couldn't have said it better myself.


I graduated in 2006. At my high school, the hand-me-down and the new compact were very popular. Mom and dad's old Taurus, Grand Prix, Camry, or Explorer were quite popular, as were new Civics and Cobalts mom and dad bought.

I was one of many with a hand-me-down Explorer. My second car stood out a little more, though.

Monte Carlos were strangely popular.

My school district is middle class and upper middle class, but kids with BMWs and Lexuses have not had the penetration as some of the other Toledo suburbs. That is not to say there were not any expensive imports or sports cars - we had a couple Land Rovers, new Mustangs, a Hummer, and a few German sedans. It just seemed that for every wealthy cheerleader daddy's girl who got a Lexus, there were two who got a new Sebring convertible.

RamJet502 said:

"Don't hate, congradulate" - Katt Williams

I wish I had a Vette in high school, who am I kidding - I wish I had a Vette now.

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I agree... I'm a silver spoon kid, I admit it, my grandfather, who taught me to drive, bought me a loaded Z28 as a high-school graduation present... I got it 2 months before graduation... LOTS (maybe all) of my teachers were
P!SSED... ALL of my friends were jealous, Cheerleaders who wouldn't give me the time of day before now were my best friends and would do just about anything to soak up some of that new car smell, for a ride home, to the mall, to a movie or to far away places in the middle of nowhere. LOTS of great memories in that car. I instantly earned the nick names "Fast Times" and "Ridgemont" and I was the computer geek who was on the math team... not a linebacker with a scholarship. :lmao:

Not every rich kid is irresponsible, not every spoiled brat is going to roll his/her car and end their lives... I never drove drunk, I drove that car hard, was in three accidents in it... all "rear-enders", none my fault.

BTW I still have that car, it has almost 300,000 mile on it, and it still runs great. It never let me down, and never failed to get me home, I did all of the maintenance on it. It went to the dealer ONLY ONCE for a warranty claim for a slight carburetor adjustment and that was it... AMAZING quality for a 80's GM car. I will never sell it, But when my daughter turns 16 it will be her's to chase boys with... I will be more worried about the boys then I will be with my daughter driving that car. When she graduates, if, like me, she gets accepted to a top 20 university, I will not be suprised if my dad buys her a new car. Sadly, unlike my grandpa who was an "Oldsmobile Man", her grandpa shops at Lexus now...