My 16-year-old brother got a fairly new car - as in a 2008 Hyundai - because he wanted one. So, of course, my grandparents and father give the kid money to get one, because my brother always gets what he wants, regardless of what anyone else has to say about it.
My dad said he'd have to talk to my mom about it, but he never did. Dad asked brother how his grades were (Ds, Fs), said it was fine and gave him the money anyway. Doesn't surprise me. But the kid doesn't have a job, he doesn't have a license; he lives a 3 minute drive away from the school. He has no reason to have a car. Meanwhile, I'm stuck with a 14-year-old beater car, that, while it has been a sturdy car, it does have problems with it, and it will have to be replaced within the next couple of years.
What I think bothers me the most, though, is how our grandmother (dad's mom, not mom's mom - who helped brother get the car) needs surgery for what I'm sure is for her cancer reappearing...and instead of that, they spent money on a car for my brother. Now they're complaining about not having money for the surgery. I'm sorry, but potentially life-saving surgery is definitely a priority to getting a license-less, job-less, reckless-driving newly-16-year-old a car just because he wants one. That's the only reason. Because he wants one.
If he was a safe driver, planning on getting a job, and had his license, alright, that would be more fair than it currently is. However, this kid rides the yellow line, speeds in bad weather (and speeds in general), ignores all warnings from the adult passenger that there is ice and that he should slow down, doesn't stop at red lights or stop signs, and has already wrecked our grandparents' van twice...among other things. But still, surgery. Thanks, but I'd rather have my grandmother alive than have my brother out on the roads driving dangerously.
Am I jealous? A bit, perhaps, but this is coming from a kid who can't even get enough money to go to college next year. Where's my $5,500 for college, dad? Grandparents? I have straight A's with the occasional B or C, I want to go to college, I'm trying to get a job, and I'm a safe driver. I can't even. Why would you give this kid a car?
I love my brother and everything because he is my brother, but...damn.
