You are what you drive? | ADHD Information

thanks wile e for that support ! lol...if anyone is at all in doubt about our reliance on oil and how it affects our whole culture and will be ultimately our demise if we do not put more effort in conserving and being cognizant of this nonrenewable resource..and in fact that is the essence -waking up and feeling and knowing that it will be gone. it is not endless. as in: IT WILL RUN OUT.

are ppl even aware of that fact as they buy their freaking hummers? i suppose not. b/c i find that to be the most ultimate luxury of our culture...a complete defiance of recognizing the long term impact, a smug assurance and self entitlement that makes us think we can impose standards on developing countries that we wouldnt even make in our own industries in our own country all b/c of the green monster. MONEY. geez!!!

anyway. yeah read up about it: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC just put out an article. some scary words: 'oil peak' which means that once the 'easy' sources of oil run out which positive rose glass predictions even say will be about 40 years from now...that means we have to extract from shale and other difficult dangerous and polluting processes..oil will be super expensive. almost everything we take for granted in our lives has some tie to the petroleum industry. from the synthetic fabric you wear or have in your back pack..from the plastic that you put your leftovers in and the garbage bags in your home.

just something to think about.

sorry guys!!

i hate to be such an opinionated jerk. but i just wish we as a species would endeavor much much more to try to think about the future for our grandchildren and help each other out.

so i'll get off my soapbox.

mea culpa.

sumi

Thanks every one for the great stories. I'm glad to know i'm not the only female who likes cars, but i still think i'm well ...maybe just a little more "car crazy" than most.

Dixie, i love the fact that your a family person. If we had kids, my values would be different.  at least i hope so, i woulden't want to think, now lets see, do i feed the kids or fill up the car! lol!

Other than that, i'm not to materialistic. and night star, i can relate to your top of the line stereo. I JUST had to have one for the Trans Am. Husband bitched!

Great stuff y'all, but gotta go before i get kicked off line for the 3rd time. ready, set, post!

Hit the nail on the head with me! I always have had an obsession with cars portreying my personality (My imaginary personality that is) When I was younger; I had hot rods. A couple of 57 Chevys; 69 Chevelle SS, and my favorite; a 68 Roadrunner. Then as I got older; the "tough truck" image was important to me. I guess I felt a bit less than "macho"; so I would try to compensate with my vehicles. Toyota 4x4s lifted with oversized tires. A 99 GMC 4x4 Xtra Cab with oversized tires; and now an 03' Dodge Quad Cab 4x4 with oversized tires. Sheesh! You'ed think I was trying to be tough or sumpin! The wierd thing is that now I'm on Adderall; I don't care about the "image" thing so much. I almost had my wife talked into a Subaru (WRX of coarse) hehe! well; it's an image; but a small one. If I weren't still upside down on my Dodge; I probably would go for the Subaru (Dude; there fast!)

i always buy "disposable" cars so i can toss them when they get hit up with that 00+ repair bill :)

the '05 ford escape hybrid looks nice (for a hybrid), 6 cyl - 35 mpg city in a suv. i agree with u sumi about the oil, i never understood why we don't just grow lots of corn and make gasahol? a friend of someone i work with just got a hybrid pickup truck and averaged 50mpg on the highway at 80mph - my motorcycle only gets 45 mpg. supposedly it costs 00 to replace the batteries in these hybrids! :) actually if gas gets any more expensive i'm thinking about going back to the horse. i wonder if you are allowed to ride them on the streets :>

Eats up fuel injectors and the whole fuel system deteriates fast - because of the alcohol in the ethonal gasoline.

My husband is a mechanic and he avoids using this fuel just for that reason on cost of repairs to the system.

Hi Sumi,

You are so right about the oil issue. That is why we really should have kept on  building more nuclear reactors (only kidding)!

Yeah, we need something else. Our reliance on oil just gives wealth and power to some extremely unfriendly groups of people. The root source of terrorist funding is from Americans driving gigantic SUVs.   

Okay Sumi, how did you get me started on this! You are a trouble maker .

This is what happens to me at social functions. Someone gets me started on  politics, economics, or religion. I always make someone mad!  

 

 

"DANGER, DANGER Will Robinson; Do not go into debate on oil issues"

I can't get started on this; or I'll regress into the old loud mouth I was before meds.

so yeah to add to my dubious overbearing record.

although in my soul i feel that its the right decision to get a hybrid. i have taken a particularly atypical fancy to the nissan z300 (dude i always mess that name up so if its is wrong let it be. i'll still mess it up once you correct me)

so you know. two years we'll see which one on my shoulder wins...devil or the angel.

so if we are all about our image concerning our cars i would say for me that: getting my little 82 silver honda hatchback as a first car was great b/c it totally represented my attitude of rebel without a cause ..yes ppl..you can be the rebel without a cause in a really shabby college kid kind of way ..

my desire for the nissan 300z or z300 vs. whatever hybrid i like is definitely a war between: denial that i'm getting older and that i am i AM a suburban mom..wow. whenever i say that it just doesn't sound right. and on the other hand my absolute fight for the underdogs the cause and the world think of the future!! for my hybrid. what a war.

i'll tell you which one wins.

 

sumi

I guess no one wants to hear about my gas guzzling, oil burning.......just kidding!

I used to love a sporty car but since my hubby has driven me all over the country and probably will keep doing that, I have two criteria for any new car I get, it has to be easy and cheap to maintain and it has to have thick, comfy, padded seats that tilt back! I do also look for the best mileage I can find so that makes it 3 criteria.

For some reason, I always get a red car. I deviated from that once and within weeks I was sorry I hadn't stuck with my cherry red!   

i have driven cars that i could afford. LOL. i'm currently driving a nissan 200sx..plus i have a maxima its a 96 anyway

my husband already told me that i can have whatever car i want after i give this one up in a year or two. i would personally prefer a hybrid. so that is what i'm getting...i figure in a few years they will have even more models out and they won't all be the dorky looking futuristic car look..i want something that doesn't scream 'hybrid'

it makes sense for me to have one since i sit in traffic every day and i roll home at 25 miles an hour on the highway for an hour and a half to get home.

i just need and want to be able to have a vehicle that won't make me feel so guilty. if there is an obsession or interest i have its saving the world.

 i don't want to be part of the problem.  i want to drive a car that doesn't guzzle a billion gallons of gas. the whole oil mess we cater to is such a hot point for me.

i need a car to get to work. but i don't want to be polluting and depending on the middle east for oil. sorry if that got political. it is not that i am a racist nor that i actually have issues with the 'middle east' (sorry if you feel lumped into one blob with that phrase..we 'asians' or for the less enlightened that think we're all 'chinese' feel the same way)

i just want the world less complicated. thats all.

i just want dark tinted windows and a great stereo. thats all i need. if there were comfortable reliable public transportation in houston i would be all over that...i could be reading on my commute and listening to my music and doing homework.

sigh.

 

sumi

Hi everyone! after going through all my car repair reciepts, I realized i have not owned a practical car in my life! I've always loved cars and my first car was a 74 firebird Formula 350. Awesome car, BIG repair bills. ofcourse i diden't knw i had ADD at that time, but my self esteem was very low, so i let the car be my personality, " we got alot of attention". That car was more trouble than my ADD! 2 yrs later, went to get a sensible car. WRONG! Enter 79 Trans Am. That was around the time i read an articale titled "you are what you drive" Kept car 13 yrs. Lots of fun, many tickets, &* lots of attention! And again real big repair bills. There was always something wrong with that car.

In the late 80's, my S/O introduced me to the Grand Am. Practical car, BUT I had to have the one with a high performance engine in it( the quad 4) That turned out to be worse than the trans am!.....Fast forward-2004,I have another grand am high performance nightmare. I get soooo many compliments on that car, and again , i think it's the self esteem thing. I feel good driving a car that gets looks & can move. I see no end in sight. I can't picture myself driving a car that just blends in.

I know as ADD'ers, we can sometimes be obsessive with thing of interest. Does anyone else have this problem? not just a car, but ANYTHING you just can't seem to let go of, even though you know you should? And speaking of obsessive, i've been head over heels with the trans am since 1974, with no end in sight!

Am i just weird, or do any of y'all have something that you should give up, but just can't? Anyone out there?????Please???? 

 

I have always owned practical nerdy cars but I am a woman and tend to me hyperfocused on family.  lol I love my minivan!!!

I have always dreamed of having a Mustang 64/65 - but just never to be. So most of the cars I have owned are Ford Escorts, just because it is practical and I am a short person only 5'1" here. This last one though I personally hate - it is a Escort Station Wagon, only got it because the price was right, but I hate the color of it.

Oh and to add insult to injury, my husband owns a 2001 Form Mustang SVT Cobra!!! Not the year I wanted, but close enough.

I will likely keep with the little escorts myself, manual stick, small to get around in... I really hate the bigger cars, can't see around them, and don't want one that eats up gas.

Materialistic hang ups, I bought my very first stereo cost ,000 - of course husband baulks at it, says it is not all that great, his kids have continually tried talking me out of it, always putting their hands on it when we where not home. I had to lock it up, but I won't let it go, cause it was the top of the line back 10 years ago when I first got it and I was so darn proud of being able to buy it. It was stuck on lay-a-way for over a year to get it! Now the kids are gone, and it is still stuck in storage. Need to get it back out and set up again.