Originally Posted by bigbengt67
Unless you bought your car COMPLETELY on your own you are a spoiled baby and probably deserve what you got. High school kids will pick on whoever has the nicest stuff, period. It has been this way for decades. If you drive a nice car to school you are going to be a target, no matter which way you look at it.
Honestly, what kind of 16 year old can afford the purchase price of a $17,000+ car AND the insurance completely on their own? I know I couldn't 7 years ago.
Your signature says it all by bragging that you are the youngest SRT-6 owner and asking us to prove you wrong... Who says you don't act with the same attitude to your peers at school?
My advice is to keep the cool car for the weekends/prom and buy a beater for the ride to school, or to grin and bear the torment of your peers.
I in no way advocate the numerous high school girls at my high school that had G's and Boxsters, etc. But honestly, where did you earn the right to insult anyone's intergrity/character. It doesn't matter what his means to get the car were. He is obviously the exception not the rule in the fact that he understands the value of his possesions. That is, in fact, the key difference between grateful and spoiled. I know many high school kids who spent every waking moment outside of school (and associated activities) working their butt off (including me). I bet if he came to school in an old 300zx that you wouldn't say he is spoiled even though they were a nicer car when they were originally introduced...It's all perspective. Please don't judge people before you know them. Give people the benefit of the doubt until they prove you otherwise. This isn't just for this case, but for everything in life. If people cannot place a level of trust in people at first sight, then they will be stuck in a paranoid place devoid of all social interaction crucial to a person's mental and physical life development...
Off my soapbox, nothing personal against you. I just do not like prejudicing people in anyway its how this world got to the place we are today, unfortunately.