From One To Four

I am all vehicled out. Between getting my Tracer fixed, to driving my mother's Corolla, to buying my new Accord I am just plain sick of cars. But the frenzy continues.

On Monday I am meeting a co-worker to buy her daughter's car for my sister. I have already put down $300 towards the vehicle. It is a 1997 Saturn. Since I found this car, my mother has been bugging me non-stop about when we are going to purchase it. She is tired of my sister driving (and ragging it out, according to mom) her car. Christina drives too fast. She weaves in and out of traffic. She scares my mother to death. "She is gonna wreck my car!........I want her out of my car!"

I was waiting for Christina to get a job and pay for the vehicle. Supposedly she has a job at Taco Bell but has yet to work one shift. So my mother decided to cash in these savings bonds we purchased a long time ago for Christina's college education. Seeing how she is barely getting through high school, college seems like a unrealistic dream at this point. We had many of these bonds, but mom cashed some of them in for whatever reason. She gave me the remaining few to hold so they could not waste them on stupid stuff. Turns out there was just enough to pay off the remaining balance with $100 left over for anything else needed for the car.

Christina is not aware of this because we still want her to work. But now she will be out of my mother's vehicle and my mother will leave me alone about the whole situation. When we ask her about her supposed job, she says that she is hired but just waiting for the manager to call her back. Supposedly there was a mix up with the uniform they ordered and they had to send it back and get another one. The lady supposedly told Christina that she would call Christina, and not to call her. I have never heard such B.S. I told my sister to call her anyway. Of course she does not listen to me!