I always wanted a car and thought that having one would make my life easier. I still remember the day I bought the car - my car! - and drove it home. It was the happiest day of my life... and then everything went wrong.
First of all, I got a ticket for speeding. I was so excited about driving my new car that I didn’t realize how fast I was going. Later, when I got home, there was nowhere to park on the street. I looked for parking for almost thirty minutes. Finally, I found a place – six blocks from my house! The next morning, I decided to drive to school. The traffic was terrible and I was fifteen minutes late for class. All this happened in the first twenty-four hours of owning a car!
By the end of the first year, I was almost $2,000 in debt. I needed money for car payments, gas and insurance. It was crazy! In the end, I had to sell the car to pay my bills.
So what’s the moral of the story? If you don’t need a car, don’t buy one. It would be a terrible mistake!
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