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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2004
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12:23a
Lord my roomate Shelby has been getting on my nerves lately. She is always fucking complaining about her car. Her parents bought her a 2002 Mustang over the winter break, and I swear it seems like she never has anything positive to say about it. She says things like, "well, the GALANT (her old car) never did this...it never sounded like this...the Galant didn't have problems driving in the rain like this car...this car is so hard to park...I really wanted a Mazda 6 instead of this...this car really isn't as fast as these new Galants coming out...the speakers in this car aren't good, they are a lot worse than the ones in the Galant...I'm so pissed about that...I can't see out of the back window of this car..." and on, and on, and on she goes. I just want to fucking scream SHUT THE HELL UP!!!
She doesn't know how lucky she is to have that car. That Mustang is a way better car than her '94 piece of shit Galant anyway, I really don't see why the fuck she is complaining all the time. And her parents freaking bought both of those cars for her. Sure, she chips in $50 a month sometimes to help pay, but that's nothing considering how much it costs. It would take her three years and eight months at that rate to spend as much money as I just spent buying my car...and although I love my new car, I would love to have a mustang like that, and it sure is in better condition, is worth a lot more, and will last a lot longer than my car.
I'm not saying that I deserve her car...I don't, I wrecked my '97 mustang and it was my fault that I didn't have a car for almost nine months. But she has no right to fucking complain when she has her parents handing over a practically new car that is really nice. It pisses me off so much. Some people are just not thankful for anything and act in such a snobby way, and are always wanting more. Does she not realize how fucking easy she has it compared to other people? There are some kids whose parents can't afford to buy them ANY car at all, and much less a virtually new car that is far from a piece of shit.
And once again I am becoming highly irritated with her blatant racism. I mean, just today when we were coming back from the store, she was making fun of me because I was buying fruit juice...and then she was like, "I don't buy 'jungle juice,'" insinuating that only black people drink juice...and going on and on about how black people drink lots of kool-aid because they are poor and how in her small town there was this one brand of juice that only black people buy. I mean, lots of people make jokes and shit but there is a line that she always crosses into just plain ignorance and close-mindedness and it pisses me off to no end.
She also makes fun of hispanic people ("mexicans") constantly. She is pissed off because there are Durango commercials in Spanish. Today I asked her why it pissed her off so much, and she said that if the commercial is in Spanish, then it is being marketed towards hispanics. And if a $30,000+ car is being marketed towards "mexicans," then that is just "wrong," because all mexicans are poor and too poor to buy that car. And I was like, "Shelby, just because someone is hispanic does not mean they are poor." And then she was like, "yeah, that's true sometimes...it's because they are all illegals and they don't have to pay taxes."
Like I said before, there are a lot of racial jokes and stereotypes in this world, but how the fuck can someone truly and honestly fully believe her way of thinking? I cannot comprehend some people's complete lack of common sense and the posession of such backward thinking. The sad part is, she's not the only one. Now I'm not a liberal or a democrat or anything, I just think it is wrong to discriminate on any basis...whether that is race, gender, sexual preference, or anything like that.
I just wish some people would open their eyes...and stop thinking so much about themselves. It is hard living with someone when all they do is complain and put others down when they have a pretty damn good life. Why spend your time always thinking that things are not good enough for you? Some people wish they just had the chance at that...so be fucking grateful for your opportunities and position in life. It is not wrong to want to better your life, but don't complain when what you have is sufficient. We are in college for god's sake anyway...we're not supposed to have money.
I am glad now that my parents raised me to work for what I have. Even though they still want me to depend on them, and they do help me out with school and bills, they never just gave me a bunch of money and shit like all the damn sorority bitches and college kids who drive around jaguars. I'm glad now that I can see that at least I appreciate what I have even if it's not exactly what I want. Some people just need to grow the fuck up and take a visit to reality for a little while.
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