when does it become your business?

[Amber Lamps]

Originally Posted by z06boy

Agree 100 %

I'm the opposite...no kids and we have full coverage on everything.

Same here! I protect myself and my property, fuck everyone else!

[HurricaneHeather]

Originally Posted by wildchild

so basically you're angry at me no matter what I do. just like a woman.

Sorry, I think you misunderstood me. I was not even remotely angry at you. I was quoting my intepretation of someone else's accusations toward me in the other thread.

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by TIGGER

I won't call you a liar but if you really believe that your parents never cut any corners to raise you, then you weren't really poor. People make decisions everyday whether or not to pay a $50 parking ticket or buy groceries.... Heck, I had my license suspended from not paying tickets. It was pay the ticket or pay the rent.

I ate Kraft Dinner, canned spaghetti, or Lipton chicken noodle soup with bologna sandwiches for a whole lot of meals. When we had a car, it was a clapped out Chevy Nova. After my parents split I went for a year with one pair of pants and not knowing where my next meal was coming from so I was going to high school full time, while working full time. Sleep was a luxury.

The biggest corners were cut by my father who left us with crushing debt, because he just had to have his couple of two-fours a weekend.

Next?

[Tmall]

Pffft.

A car and a dad. You had it good...

Next!

Next!

[CrazyKell]

Originally Posted by Tmall

Pffft.

A car and a dad. You had it good...

Next!

Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

I ate Kraft Dinner, canned spaghetti, or Lipton chicken noodle soup with bologna sandwiches for a whole lot of meals. When we had a car, it was a clapped out Chevy Nova. After my parents split I went for a year with one pair of pants and not knowing where my next meal was coming from so I was going to high school full time, while working full time. Sleep was a luxury.

The biggest corners were cut by my father who left us with crushing debt, because he just had to have his couple of two-fours a weekend.

Next?

Ya. Don't you know that if you weren't from the hood and didn't have to "do what you had to do" to survive your story doesn't hold any water around here?

[Kerry_129]

Originally Posted by TIGGER

What difference does it make?

THIS difference.

Originally Posted by Kerry_129

I think you're kidding yourself. My under/un-insured coverage is about twice what liability-only costs me.

Everybody that actually pays their insurance, and carries under/un-insured coverage is paying for those that don't - and generally paying a good bit, not some trivial amount.

How is that so seemingly difficult to understand?

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by Tmall

Pffft.

A car and a dad. You had it good...

Next!

Next!

Dads actually COST money AND he took the car

Would have been better off without him and on welfare, but we were too proud.

Originally Posted by CrazyKell

Ya. Don't you know that if you weren't from the hood and didn't have to "do what you had to do" to survive your story doesn't hold any water around here?

What Tmall and Apoc don't seem to realize, is that I was born in their neck of the woods

[Amber Lamps]

Originally Posted by Papa_Complex

And in your position I would be worried that said asshole might clip my car in the parking lot at work.

See but I worry about that now so... I bought full coverage insurance. All my stuff is paid for so I could carry liability only if I wanted. Btw uninsured motorist coverage is a scam perpetrated by the ins companies. In no-fault states YOUR insurance pays for your vehicle and medical bills so what does it matter to your insurance company if the other guy isn't covered? It's ridiculous.

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by TIGGER

See but I worry about that now so... I bought full coverage insurance. All my stuff is paid for so I could carry liability only if I wanted. Btw uninsured motorist coverage is a scam perpetrated by the ins companies. In no-fault states YOUR insurance pays for your vehicle and medical bills so what does it matter to your insurance company if the other guy isn't covered? It's ridiculous.

An even bigger scam is medical coverage on your auto policy. We have universal health care and I have a heap-load of supplemental coverage through work for all sorts of upgrades yet I have to pay for supplemental medical on my insurance, so that they can never pay out.

[the chi]

On the poor argument, I would just like to say for the record...

If you didnt grow your own food, you werent poor!!!

I dont really mean that, but altho I didnt grow up in the "hood", I had no father, my mother and I grew our own food when times were really bad, and I remember a few winters with no heat because there was no money to pay the bill. My mother still did what she needed to do, including walking to work when there was no car or money for gas, and didnt break the law while still taking care of us.

That means my word is law right?