Re: I speak the truth... (archive)

I am not at all happy with the postings I made on this thread. I DID say that it was going to be a rant, and it certainly was. This young boy just really rubbed the wrong way, in spades.

However, I believe the underlying points are valid.

1. When I was sixteen, very few kids even had cars...now some are buying $50k race cars?

2. I know that the employment market is tight, but no high school kid can be earning that kind of income working very part time.

3. Exception to above...some kids are computer whizzes, and find a market niche that brings in some bifg time dollars. However, I would guess that most of them can read and write coherently. Maybe not.

4. Even if a kid has rich parents, or funds of his own (obviously cannot be financing a car like that for several years yet) the first car on a brand new driver's license just should not be a killer machine of any kind...and the unpredictability of the MZ3 is well documented. Add to that the new gigantic motor, and this is a virtual death sentence for someone...or at least a terrible amount of grief.

Perhaps this young lad is much more responsible than his writing indicates, and his lust for speed and power is not as egregious as it appears.
It still seems the height of bad judgment to start out a driving career in such a way.

And I personally can't get by the fact that life is unfair. After a full working career, it just becomes marginally possible to get into such a great car and enjoy it...and then some way underage youngster comes on waving bucks and wanting the same car. I DID say it was going to be a rant.

Your approach was much more civil, but I don't think it would have worked off sufficient steam if I had tried to write it that way.

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