hi again. i know i must have sounded stuck up in my last reply... i am, can't help it; and i appreciate everybody being very nice about what i said, but just to clear up WHY i got my cars.
i've never been just given anything. My father grew up poor, and my mother grew up somewhat well off. My grandfather started a plumbing and heating business in philadelphia in 1938 and my father worked for him ever since he was old enough to be a grease monkey. Once he was old enought to make take over the business, he grew it into one of the formost, non-union, plumbing businesses in philadelphia.
as happens to most fathers, he brought me up as he was brought up...very modest. Although we have a lot, we don't show it. and i've never been given anything without working my ASS off for it. it's all about incentives. to get my first car, i had to pull straight A's (i was allowed one or two B's) throught high school. once i got my car junior year, i had to keep getting A's or else my mom would take away my car. Same goes for my new E. if i don't keep up dean's list, i loose the car. and keeping dean's list in nuclear engineering at the 3rd best school in the country for it is no easy task.
also, i've worked since i was 15. i currently work in the dining commons in east halls at penn state during the school year while working hard for my father on the job over the summer (and caddie on the weekends). i pay for gas. i pay for insurance (which sucks). and i pay for any accessory i want over normal stuff on my cars. i truely do know what it's like to work for something and i appreciate every single thing my family has done for me, financially, in my life.
by the way, I'm a man, not a girl.