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Anything new in the last 24 hours, caprice?

Honda Element. Oh.. was I supposed to say more, wasn't I?

You know I'll be there for ya. I missed out last year, but not this one!

What I'd do to see its.. grilles. Grawr.

[little kid]I can't even weed good![/kid]

Ford

Congrats again, oblu! And good luck with the date. Don't get yourself too caught up in the guy because you might be regretting it later. But don't hold back; be yourself.. people like you for who you are, so be you and everything will be just fine.

I agree with the seatbelt thing.

3394, actually. Perkins (restaurant)

Just.. wow. I am for reading this thread.

Me too. Ya'll are good at putting up social masks..

Walmart

vendetta

BV would've made your day if he saw that Sorry about all that $h! though, dude.. Seriously sucks.

Ehh, probably to go blow out your sub

That house is absolutely gorgeous. I'm sorry you'll have to depart from it..

Rillay?!

I try to keep an optimistic edge over all my friends and family. So, this keeps me happy. Family: I love my parents and sister. They all get on my nerves daily, but I try to overlook these things and realize they're only trying to help me. Friends: I don't keep many close friends, but those I do keep, I treasure. I have some real good friends. Plus, I'm about to start college and I'll meet a lot of new people there and it'll be good for me. I don't have a girlfriend, but that's not killing me. I'll find a good girl eventually; I have faith. Jobs and Money: I'm a teenage kid with a nice car just about to start college, so of course I'm broke! I work 2 jobs, I'm waiting for a letter of acceptance or denial from a co-op place, and I might be considering a detailing job for the summer depending on what happens with the co-op. So, this area is peachy, except that I don't have money (although I just opened up a bank account with $2000, which is the money I got for graduating from everybody -- this money's only being used for college, though). Overall: Like I said, I try to keep everything optimistic. "Live to love and love to live." Keep a faith in something.. anything.. and do what you love to do, and you'll be happy.

I'm skeptical. After hearing stories from my mom about ghost encounters, I know such things exist, but I'm scared $h!less of having such an encounter. My mom's made me terrified and paranoid of such things unintentionally. So, I don't want to believe they exist, but I know they do.

Wow, there were some effing nice cars out there... Looks good. I wasn't able to go to the first local big car meet/cruise Saturday (the 17th) because it was my grad party. Whatever. There are more to come.

haha That's actually sweet.

So, as most of you know, I have a best friend named Ray. Here's what I knew about him for the last 18-20 months until yesterday: 19 years old, black child living in a less black-than-white metro-Detroit community, grew up in Laguna Beach until he was 8, his dad died when Ray was 8, mom died when he was 12, and he's lived in MI since being 8 with his grandfather because of financial reasons. Well, yesterday at my graduation party, I asked Darren something (Ray's brother; I don't remember what I had asked) and he was confused. Now, this was something he would've known, but didn't. So I asked on: Your mom is alive? "Yes," was his answer.. with a questioned look on his face. "Wait, how about your father?" Again, he answered yes. "Are you and Ray pure, true blood brothers from the same two parents?" For a third time, he answered yes. Wow, I was flabbergasted; as was my mom, dad, sister, boss (he came w/ his family and knows "the story" behind Ray's life as much as I do), and a co-worker. At the same time, Darren was looking at us like we were stupid for not knowing his parents hadn't passed away. So, then comes some good information, explaining Ray. Turns out that his father is a karate instructor (as Ray's always explained) and beat Ray physically and mentally before Ray's parents split. Ray was 8, matching his explanation: "my father died when I was 8." Then, over the next 4 years, Ray did live with his grandfather, but his mom ongoingly harrassed him for reasons unknown to me. At the age of 12, Ray said his mom passed away. However, in all reality, his mom is still alive and well, communicating with Darren from time to time, but hasn't talked to Ray in 7 years: since he was 12. Therefore, this is what I'm getting out of it after talking with my parents, Darren, and co-worker (who led a very similar young life: black child in nice white community, mom walking out on him, says his mom is dead although she's only "dead" to him, etc.): Ray remembers only the good things about his parents while they were "alive" to him, which is why we always thought his parents were good people. This is a very psychologically-tuned area (Enzora would probably love a case like this) where he pushes out the bad things he remembers, trying to only remember the good. He doesn't communicate with either of his parents because of their past with him, so when anything good coming from his parents quit and all bad things began, Ray put a tombstone right there, marking a figurative death in his heart, with lack of an actual physical death. Now, Darren still talks to his mom from time to time and occasionally with his father, but Ray has moved on past his parents who were no good to him. I've agreed to not mention anything from last night to Ray because it'd probably make him feel terrible bringing up old memories. The only thing though is that I don't understand why his parents were so bad to him because both Ray and Darren are very respectable, responsible people who care for and love their family and friends. But, this does explain why he seems to lack trust in some people and he's always saying that he "doesn't like people who don't like him without knowing him" (he gets harrassed by random strangers about his car, even to the point of flipping him off because of it): his parents didn't even know him as a person because he was only a kid who was beat all the time. They seem to have hated him for reasons unknown. Anyways, I thought I'd share. It was a crazy story to me and thought it'd be something Enzora (along with others) would like to hear.. and the perfect plot for a story.

Why? Going past redline is bad. Rev limiters are put in place so you don't redline at all, saving the car from major damage. However, staying at high RPMs for awhile can be damaging, if that's what you're saying.. but nothing instantaneous at all.

There's a replica job up for grabs about 20ish miles from me at a Chevy dealership.. I'm going to call them tomorrow and see what's up.

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