Memoirs Of J

On my way home from Sparrow (downtown Lansing) this evening, a woman in a dumpy looking green dodge neon pulled up beside me at a traffic light on Penn Ave.  There were a couple of disheveled young kids in the backseat, and another woman in the passenger’s seat taking a drag of her cigarette.  The light changed to green and she pulled away, her gaudily bright silver rims glinting in the sun, nearly blinding me.

This isn’t an infrequent scenario.  You’d see this sort of thing a LOT if you drove through the ghetto areas of your town, and it just makes you shake your head in bewilderment.

What I want to know is how can so many presumably poor people, possibly on public assistance if I had to guess by the looks of them (seriously, let’s be real and not PC for a few minutes here – you can tell) afford to buy RIMS ?  Rims that are most likely more valuable than the car itself!  The average price for a set of rims is approximately $2000.  An older model dodge neon, for example, might run $2000 but probably less.

This is clearly an ignorant, selfish, frivolous, narcissistic, and un-wise financial decision being made by the very people who have no discretionary income (or any actual income of their own, for that matter) to speak of.

How in the hell does one possibly justify such a reckless waste of money that they don’t even have?  Seriously – I want to know.