need a car pretty bad...once u let me borrow your car i could get an internship and/or a job

6/5/2008 2:32:29 PM

[no]

[Edited on June 5, 2008 at 2:44 PM. Reason : ivan might let you use one of the demo derby cars]

6/5/2008 2:43:58 PM

haha, he sounds like one of those bums that harass people at gas stations.

Hey man, Can I have 10 bucks? I need it for bus fare to greensboro where my uncle has a job for me.

6/5/2008 2:53:01 PM

I just need $2.37 for some transmission fluid.

6/5/2008 2:55:02 PM

^^speaking of which I think I did see dnl harassing people for change the other day.

[Edited on June 5, 2008 at 2:57 PM. Reason : s]

6/5/2008 2:57:08 PM

i had a guy come up to me at the gas station asking for $ for gas.. i told him i had no cash and he was all "oh, that's ok, you can swipe your card at the pump"

hahaha.. RIIIGHT..

[Edited on June 5, 2008 at 3:33 PM. Reason : might be different if i wasnt asked for money at that gas station at least 1-2 times a week]

6/5/2008 3:32:33 PM

I cant beleive u did not have full coverage on the Accord with your driving history.

6/5/2008 4:56:54 PM

yeah you can borrow my car for 10 weeks

6/5/2008 5:05:11 PM

6/5/2008 5:29:30 PM

bttt...gonna try that ivan guy here in a little while

6/5/2008 5:31:48 PM

no one is gonna do that dumbass, get a rental car

6/5/2008 5:33:07 PM

whats literally the cheapest car or scooter i could get? like 500 bucks?

6/5/2008 5:38:11 PM

http://raleigh.craigslist.org/search/car?query=&minAsk=min&maxAsk=500&addTwo=by-owner

6/5/2008 5:48:25 PM

Is the transmission fluid guy still around? I gave him some money once and he hit me up later with the same story. He got pissed off when I called him on it. That was probably 5 or 6 years ago.

6/5/2008 9:47:14 PM

I was at Mission Valley a couple of years ago, and a guy came up to me asking for a few dollars so he could buy some fix-a-flat because he had a flat and needed to get to work.
I told him that I was a mechanic, and that stuff was crap. He told me he already had two cans in the tire and it was still leaking. At that point I told him it would never work and he needed a new tire.
He then asked if I could give him money for cab fare, like $10. I asked where he needed to go and he told me "xxxxx", some italian place near crabtree.
I told him that he could give me $5 and I would drive him there. He said "ok, you can give me $5."
I clarified for him that he could pay me, and he looked at me funny, said no thanks, and walked away.

6/5/2008 9:55:58 PM

get a rickshaw and pull people around campus for money

6/5/2008 9:56:32 PM

Walking is going to suck...

6/5/2008 10:30:43 PM

i will sell you a decent running honda accord. 450 and its yours. title in hand

6/5/2008 11:24:37 PM

idk man i got a few things to figure out...i'm hoping to get a part time job working 3 days a week and then 4 days a week at the internship at 10 hour days

6/5/2008 11:49:10 PM

good luck and let me know. i driver it to work every day cause its good on gas. just sucks cause its an auto (new tranny) and it doesnt have a radio.

6/5/2008 11:59:41 PM

dude- watch craigslist. you can get a decent $500 car until you figure things out. OR learn to get up early & ride buses. There are ways around-- they are just terribly inconvenient. Riding buses isn't so bad, though. When it was really cold I started riding them when my 626's tranny went out. After I figured out the usual routes, I rather enjoyed not having to worry about traffic & such.

There are plenty of jobs around here within bus/bicycle distance. No one in their right mind is going to loan you a car. No good employer/internship is going to give you the time of day without transportation. Get your shit together first.

6/6/2008 12:22:55 AM

while we're asking stupid favors, does anyone want to be my personal driver from June 12th till July 23rd? I won't be able to drive but need to get around to work, etc.

kkthx

6/6/2008 12:40:39 AM

are you havering surgery or somehting the system did?

6/6/2008 12:42:49 AM

ACL reconstruction.

6/6/2008 12:46:20 AM

you are in the NYC area though. no?

6/6/2008 12:51:51 AM

Yes I am, but sadly my company is located nowhere near the subway system.

6/6/2008 5:53:45 PM

you could stop paying for internet and use the money on a payment plan for a ~$800 car. I pay $168/month on an 18k car. make it happen or start suckin dick for spare change

6/6/2008 8:44:13 PM

:pics from college in deck:

6/6/2008 11:15:00 PM

You could take the bus, or buy a bicycle. Kind of lame options, but if you combine a bicycle with a city bus you can pretty much reach anywhere in the area where you could get a job.

DNL if you just need some money for a job and a car, the NCSU Bookstores isn't a bad choice. I mean you can ride the wolfline up to campus and work 40 hour weeks. Pay is crap ($7 or $8/hr), but it is pay. Your best option is to find a job on campus somewhere that you can work 40 hour weeks, then continue to live as conservatively as possible until you have enough money to buy a crappy car, or to put down a downpayment and start making monthly payments on a used car from an area dealership. From there, just maintain a job during the semester working 15-20 hours a week and you'll be fine. The bookstore was pretty good for a semester job, but be careful if you work in computer connections & school supplies if you have allergies (they had a mold problem that basically made me sick as hell so I had to quit because I didn't have a solution at the time). You can work 6 hours on saturdays at the bookstore and then work two four hour shifts during the week and be golden (AND you'll get free textbooks). I figure this isn't a bad short-term option for you, you still live off avent ferry rd, right?

You're going to have to end up doing a local job for now if you don't want to waste a lot of time on the bus, and NCSU campus is about the best place to look.

6/6/2008 11:18:21 PM

Quote :

"I pay $168/month on an 18k car"

i hope that's with a hefty down payment...

6/6/2008 11:19:54 PM

wtf is this thrad doing here?

6/6/2008 11:46:51 PM

Quote :

"anyone got a car i can borrow for like 10 weeks?"

yeah man, i just need to hold $40k as a deposit.

6/7/2008 12:51:37 AM

Quote :

"Is the transmission fluid guy still around? I gave him some money once and he hit me up later with the same story. He got pissed off when I called him on it. That was probably 5 or 6 years ago."

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6/7/2008 1:05:22 AM

Quote :

"while we're asking stupid favors, does anyone want to be my personal driver from June 12th till July 23rd?"

you cover my travel expenses and a place to stay and i'll do it for at least a couple of weeks if not the whole time. not even kidding. hell, i'll even being the drop top and we'll ride in style.

[Edited on June 7, 2008 at 1:51 AM. Reason : plus free crutch lessons from a certified expert, lol ]

6/7/2008 1:51:13 AM

^haha

Quote :

" I pay $168/month on an 18k car. "

not without a sizeable down payment or trade-in, you don't.


figure $100 per $5000 financed for a 60-month loan (this obviously varies a little with interest). even if you took a 72-month loan on an $18k car (which would probably be a dumb idea to begin with), you'd pay more than $168/month.

that's like saying i pay $0 per month for my truck, because my down payment was equal to the purchase price.

6/7/2008 2:38:19 PM

yeah, huge down payment, but the fact remains, basic transportation can be had for VERY little per month. my roommate's sister has focus for something like $75/month with 1k down. the market is so bad for cars right now, especially older ones with below average mileage, I've seen used car dealers offering 72months on ~3-4k cars with ridiculous down payments like $100. that comes out to about the cost of high speed internet each month (~$60).

also, I've worked at the bookstore. summer time is about the absolute last time you'd ever want to work there, especially in the computer section. I started at $9.50/hr years ago and I don't think you could pay me enough to ever work there again.

6/7/2008 10:37:34 PM

6/7/2008 11:40:31 PM

ok here are the options from my perspective

a) fix up my bike and learn to take the buses everywhere
b) find some cheap car to get
c) get a scooter/crotch rocket


a) is the most lame cause it'd probably add about 2-2.5 hours a day(rode the bus once and it took forever just to get to north raleigh)

b) i dont really know shit about cars and also i figure the reliability for a 500 dollar car isnt that great, plus i'd want to get something good on gas and i doubt i could be that picky when the car is 500 dolla

c) i like this idea cause its prolly the cheapest plus they get good gas mileage, but riding a scooter is like fucking a fat chick so idk...

6/10/2008 2:20:23 AM

find a carpool or some shit to get you to north raleigh

6/10/2008 2:37:12 AM

option A until you earn enough money to buy a cheap car, then option B.

you do not need and cannot afford a crotch rocket of any variety.

6/10/2008 2:53:21 AM