{"id":3790,"date":"2016-01-11T14:28:38","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T22:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harperkingsley.net\/blog\/?p=3790"},"modified":"2023-10-17T23:37:10","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T06:37:10","slug":"when-dreams-meet-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/when-dreams-meet-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"When dreams meet reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He doesn&#8217;t understand why I would be upset about him buying his &#8220;dream car.&#8221; Uh, how about the fact that it only has 2 seats and there&#8217;s 3-4 people that need to be driven around in this family? How about the fact that he&#8217;s been driving like a maniac lately and I&#8217;m seriously worried he&#8217;s going to crash and kill himself in a sports car?<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;I don&#8217;t want a four-door because they&#8217;re ugly.&#8221; Well, at least get one with four fucking seats, asshole.<\/p>\n<p> Ugh. I&#8217;m angry and I&#8217;m upset, but I&#8217;m trying to keep it all on the inside. Because it&#8217;s his money, we&#8217;re living here under his kindness, and he&#8217;s going to do what he&#8217;s going to do.<\/p>\n<p> And if that includes spending $30,000 on a car when he bitches me out every month for spending more than $300 on groceries, well, that happened. So I&#8217;ll ignore the leaky roof, the lack of good indoor heating, the emptiness of the refrigerator, and the fact that he refuses to go to the doctor because it&#8217;s too expensive, and pretend some enthusiasm for his new car.<\/p>\n<p> What a fucking waste of money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He doesn&#8217;t understand why I would be upset about him buying his &#8220;dream car.&#8221; Uh, how about the fact that it only has 2 seats and there&#8217;s 3-4 people that need to be driven around in this family? How about the fact that he&#8217;s been driving like a maniac lately and I&#8217;m seriously worried he&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/when-dreams-meet-reality\/\" title=\"When dreams meet reality\" class=\"entry-more-link\"><span>Read More<\/span> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">When dreams meet reality<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"Layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[41],"tags":[743,748],"class_list":["entry","author-harperkingsley0-0","post-3790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news-of-the-day","tag-ugh","tag-upset-and-hiding-it-badly"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pPoL-Z8","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3178,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/dont-know-think\/","url_meta":{"origin":3790,"position":0},"title":"I don&#8217;t know what to think","author":"Harper Kingsley","date":"May 12, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"So, my dad bought a Wacom Cintiq that arrived today. 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