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My mother's attempts to buy a new car keep being thwarted.

This is unfortunate for us both. She spends two hours a day driving me to work, five days a week (!); I have not been out of the house for anything but work in a week and a half, except for riding my bike to Goodberry's once, and man cannot live on frozen custard alone. Even if it was vanilla with bananas and strawberries and mmmmmmm.

Meanwhile, my sister threatened to leave home if (a) she had to make a single compromise involving the guaranteed use of her car, or (b) my mother got a Subaru.

Oh, wait, update: She got approved for the loan! Which is not for a Subaru, but for a Prius, which nicely balances out the Evilmobile we also own.

The most recent being-thwarted is that they wouldn't give her the car unless my father, who works variously in India, Shanghai, and Singapore, was there to sign the papers. But now they gave her the loan and I will have my car and all manner of things shall be well.

You have never seen a 24-year-old woman this happy about having the use of a minivan with 170,000 miles on it.

(And I do think it's a little excessive for a household to own three cars, but if a certain someone refuses to make any compromises there's not much to be done about it; and really, only an agoraphobic or a much more enthusiastic and brave cyclist than me could be happy this far out in the suburbs and carless).

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The reason suburbs are Evol Incarnate. (That's a pun hahaha, because cities are Incarnate. We are busabled, trollified, and subwayaway. Except the suburbs of course.)

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Somebody needs to remind Sis that compromise can be forced. How much of her own money does the little angel put into the car in terms of fuel and insurance? Is there a spare set of keys? All this and more can be highly effective as leverage against the intractable adolescent.

On the other hand, three isn't an excessive number of cars when you live so far from everything. Your mom's a trooper for driving you all that way -- I used to feel bad about waking mine up to drive me 10 minutes to the train station.