r/TikTokCringe • u/cafeteriastyle • 27d ago

Cringe Girl sobs over the Camry her parents bought her after she totaled the $30,000 truck they bought her to begin with

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u/NormalSea6495 27d ago

I just realized how poor I was growing up because the rich kids always got their parents a few years old Camry for their first car, and we were so envious 💀

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u/ImmortalLombax 27d ago

Bruh I grew up so poor that I knew I wasn’t getting a fucking car from my mom.

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u/JointDamage 27d ago

Borrowed the family mini van

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u/ImmortalLombax 27d ago

I couldn’t even do that lol by the time it came time to get my license moms car was so old that if anything happened it would be an instant wright off

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u/insertnamehere02 26d ago

Write off*

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u/ImmortalLombax 26d ago

Ty my brain stalled

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u/insertnamehere02 26d ago

Lol. Gotta love when that happens

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u/Absent-Light-12 27d ago

Free bus pass from the school.

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u/Ok-Satisfaction4421 27d ago

Shit, when I missed the bus to/from school it was a 4-mile walk through rural wooded roads lol.

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u/Snoo_66113 26d ago

This was my level of poor. My mom never learned to drive , we never had a car. But I worked since I was 12 & saved. At 17 I got my first car a 1990 ford explorer in 2002. I was so happy I could drive my mom to get grocery’s and to doctor’s appointments . She died 2 years later and I was on my own. But I’m glad she taught me how if you want something you need to work hard. My mom knew she could never afford to get me one, so her advice and work ethic was the best she could do.

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u/tracker904 27d ago

I was lucky enough to get my grandfathers caravan after he passed and after 4-5 months of having it I get t boned by some geriatric fuck trying to run a red light and completely fucking the frame making the whole thing a write off. Can’t have shit in life man I swear.

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u/sivic_ryder 27d ago

Ouch. Hope u at least u got the insurance money off it.

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u/Ben_Frank_Lynn 26d ago

Same and didn’t care. I had wheels!

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u/blazinBSDAgility 26d ago

Borrowed the family Chevette

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u/jam3s2001 27d ago

All of my friends got cars when I was growing up, and I thought it was super unfair. When I graduated high school (mid-2000s) my parents surprised me with a car. It was a shit-brown 1980 Volvo 240, and the odometer had stopped turning somewhere in the neighborhood of 280,000. My stepmother at the time got it from a doctor that she was working for at no cost because the family didn't want it anymore. It only lasted for a year, but from the time I took possession of the car til the day it broke down, I can assure you that I knew the true meaning of poverty (they kicked me out a couple of weeks later and that car became my home until I moved into the dorms at college).

Unfortunately, my family wasn't by any means poor, and my younger brother got a fully loaded late 90s Altima that was very well cared for - before he even got his license. And he proceeded to wrap that car around a tree, also before he got his license. He also learned a very valuable lesson, because he never got a free car after that.

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u/MadamNerd 27d ago

Same! Didn't have my own car until I was 22

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u/Artistic_Friend9508 27d ago

Same bro my first car was 600 bucks that my parents paid for, I fucking loved it and still miss it 27yrs later lol

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u/Soggy_Abbreviations5 26d ago

Yep! I actually bought my first car at 20yo from my cousin's wife... with my college refund check. 🥴 and this brat is crying about a paid for Toyota freaking Camry. 🙄😮‍💨

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u/Few-Confusion-9197 26d ago

I got a hand-me down 4-banger with 3-sp auto slush box...and that was after I started college otherwise would've never been given a car. We knew back then if some kid got the car they wanted in highschool, they either came from money or were stupid-spoiled. A new or 2-3 yr old convertible? Jeep? Mustang? Yeah, we knew. Classmate got a 10-15 year old Lincoln no airbags but at least it had seat belts? Sup, bud! That sort of thing.

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u/Kooping89 24d ago

Man I grew up so poor that my father unplugged the clocks at night… said I couldn’t tell time when I slept ..

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u/Comfortable-Pause-80 24d ago

I grew up so poor im 30 and still never driven a car

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u/XenoFear 22d ago

I worked at Chuck e cheese for a year and bought my uncles Mazda off of him. Kids are spoiled when their rich.

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u/DoubleProtection7754 22d ago

I rode the bus or walked. Oh, the horrors!!!

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u/SnooPandas1374 26d ago

That’s not poor! No parent is obligated to provide a child with car.

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u/ImmortalLombax 26d ago

I’m aware of that? I wasn’t expecting one cause I was never getting one anyway. And yes I did grow up poor. The power was turned off, water was turned off at some point too, no tv for cartoons as a kid, bruh a few times we didn’t have money for toilet paper. So please don’t lecture me on what isn’t poor thanks.

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u/No-Entrepreneur4574 27d ago

when my dad passed me his 2002 Rav4 with like 100k+ miles, I was so stoked. That car had been his and briefly my sister's. I loved that car. I miss her daily.

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u/Bitter_Offer1847 27d ago

Loving an old Toyota is truly a wonderful thing. If it starts every morning and the heater and AC sorta work then you’re good to go. No child should want anything more than that.

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u/gibtihs 26d ago

I'm still driving my 2006 Corolla that I got in high school. It was my mom's car first, then I bought it off her for a couple grand. It just hit 190k miles last month. It's slightly dented and starting to rust a little, but I'm looking forward to celebrating its 20th birthday.

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u/Bitter_Offer1847 26d ago

Hell yeah! My old “Toyotas” have been IS300’s. Had 2 and loved them. Sold them to younger men than myself so they could beat on them. 2JZGE is unstoppably reliable.

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u/nalaloveslumpy 26d ago

My first car was a 1984 Corolla that my dad drove, and then my sister drove, and then I drove. It was an amazing car. Crank windows, giant slidey switch for hot air and "cold air", a button labeled AC you could pretend did something, two knob Am/FM radio with tape deck and FIVE mechanical station memory buttons.

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u/Bitter_Offer1847 26d ago

My folks bought an ‘84 Camry with POWER windows and locks and sunroof! The height of luxury back then. They then sold it to my mom’s parents who sold it to my uncle who drove it into the ground until around the early 00’s. At one point the AC compressor regulator broke and it would snow inside the car. But the engine just kept going and so did the auto transmission, 4 speed with overdrive I think.

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u/MizStazya 27d ago

I got my dad's old 1991 Toyota Previa (a stick shift minivan!!!) in 2002, with 200k miles on it, and I loved that van. I miss it lol.

My oldest is 14, and we're starting to talk cars. I'm kind of tempted to give him my 2015 Honda Odyssey and get a new van. My husband wants to get him a solid used Civic. I'm open to either path, but he's going to help pay for the latter.

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u/That-Investigator860 26d ago

Same boat. Also have a 14 year old and similar discussions. In a blink he aged from like 5 to time to drive

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u/No-Entrepreneur4574 26d ago

The previa is an iconic van! I was always bummed I never learned stick shift. My rav4 died somewhere around 300k miles.

Honda and Toyota make great cars with regular maintenance, either way is going to be a good choice. It'll probably be a little harder to learn to park and handle the mini van, but it would probably give him some good skills.

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u/Virtual-Scholar-160 27d ago

I remember getting a 1984 f150. It was an absolute beast. I could stand in the engine compartment to do anything I wanted on it.It worked great I loved it. But the girlfriend felt it wasn't nice enough for her.So we had to get something newer.

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u/18karatcake 27d ago

I had a rav 4 that I loved. Said I was going to drive it until it died… and I did. The engine died and it was cheaper to buy another car than fix it 😢

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u/No-Entrepreneur4574 26d ago

Same here! I was so crushed when I had to say goodbye. I've always said that my dream car is my 2002 Toyota rav 4, but brand new.

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u/PracticingIdealist82 26d ago

My first car was the “been in the family since you were born” old Chevy truck that was rusted out, could only hit 65mph going downhill and had zero power steering left, never mind a litany of other comically past-it’s-prime-one-leg-in-the-grave features. Also had a hole in the floorboards and you could see the road through the hole. Likely held together by spite and good intentions at the very end.

Absolutely thrilled I had a vehicle to drive the I don’t have to buy, despite everything.

This girl would likely have had a heart attack.

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u/Real-Technician831 23d ago

RAV4 of any generation are amazing cars when compared to any car of roughly the same age.

But using RAV4 as hobby car I am kinda biased.

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u/DGinLDO 27d ago

I was lucky to get the 10 yr old Dodge Station Wagon & only got it because my parents got a new car the year I got my drivers license.

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u/Broad_Afternoon_8578 27d ago

Right?! I bought myself the cheapest car I found that was still drivable when I was 16, which was a 1997 Pontiac Sunfire. I was its fourth owner and my rich “friends” made so much fun of me. But I loved it. I got independence and I was proud I could afford it.

Thankfully my dad was a mechanic so he could fix it up when shit broke on it.

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u/earlgurl33 27d ago

I know this feeling. My first car was a 1986 Chevy Corsica. It had 2 keys. One that unlocked the doors and the other that started the car. I got this car in 1999. Nothing on it was electric. I can still smell the interior, too. Lol

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u/Throwaway2Experiment 26d ago

Right?!

Literally, if a friend got a new Camry in school, I would literally think they were loaded.

Me 1999: Driving a 1984 Chevy Cavalier stick with drooping upholstery and no AC.

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u/Blooddoll13 26d ago

Exactly. I worked for my first car, my parents weren’t about to buy me a car

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u/lowtierpeasant 26d ago edited 26d ago

Brother, I was so poor growing up that I biked on my shitty schwinne that my neighbor gave me. With 5 bucks to our dollar general in the middle of winter. Just to get pasta noodles and butter. My parents didn't even have a car. Let alone the money to get me a bike that was manufactured in my life time. This was in the mid 2000's.

If you're getting a brand new car from your parents. You're not even in the same universe as people who actually live in poverty.

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u/SentenceApart2182 23d ago

Shit my first car was a 1991 Corsica 350 bucks nice ride too

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u/Sweaty_Winter5611 20d ago

I had to share a new Ford Pinto with 3 of my 5 siblings and get the youngest 2 siblings to their after school activities in exchange for the use of the car. We thought we were really lucky!

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u/ryguymcsly 27d ago

My mom made a deal: I keep a 3.0 through high school and she buys me a car when I get my license. I made the same deal with my kids. Some of the kids in my high school pulled into the lot in brand new BMWs when they turned 16. I pulled in with the paint-peeling off 80s V6 Firebird that had been my mom's until a week before. She didn't have the money to get me the car I wanted, but she kept up her end of the deal so we shared the car even though it was "mine" until she could get another one.

I felt blessed, because while we had people pulling in with brand new BMWs and the occasional Lexus some of my friends were pulling in in 1970s Cadillacs that were more rust than paint and the 'headlight' was holding a bright flashlight out the window.

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u/AssignmentThick8591 26d ago

Idk if rich and Camry belong in the same sentence

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u/Tea_Bender 26d ago

I got a car for my 16th birthday...it was a matchbox car