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The "what if you wanted to go to heaven, but god said ____" meme template, but here it says, "What if you wanted to walk to get groceries, but city planners said DRIVE". The last panel is an image of a massive freeway full of cars.
This what I never understood.
Where I lived, in high school (age 15-16) everyone was expected to get a license and car ASAP. I was like, why? To get to your job. For what? To earn money to pay for the car, gas, insurance, etc.
So you want me to work a job I don't need to pay for the gas for a car I don't want, so I can be miserable in school?!
And if you looked at the driving records of my peers who had cars... Not pretty. A lot of totalled sports cars.
I get you. I used to go to school with bike. Its a 30-40 min journey in one way. That was the best time in my life. I liked to see the sunrise, fell the wind, goig anywhere I want. I don't want a car too much stuff.
they probably had a lot more fun than you did tho
Fun isn't subjective at all /s
Believe it or not working at McDonalds in your "spare" time when you're already school full time and an athlete, isnt a whole lotta fun xD
And when there was something going in, they would ask if we needed a ride, bc plenty of us didn't have cars. Our idea of fun was like DnD or Risk on the weekends...
What I do wish is that I had found some kind of summer internship or something that could build my skills, because I was quite into coding as a hobby.