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Sucks man.
I tore up a transmission and ripped a mirror off a car when I was in High School. I got to pay for all that. It's a different time though. Shit is ****ing expensive. If a kid works 600 hours at $7(50 hours a week for the summer), that will get him $4200. That's pretty tough to get a car bought and gas and...and...and... On top of it they pretty much can't get a job until they're 16. It's just pretty tough to make a car work at that money.
I had saved a mountain of money because I started working every day during the summer when I was 10. That and I worked far more than 50 hours a week during the summer.
Either way, unless all the kid does is work during his teen years, he's going to need some help. It really sucks for the parents.
My nephew dinged up his car the other day. He still owes his mom over half of it and my dad had to help him straighten shit out. Kids are dumb. I was too, I just had the income to pay for it.
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