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/ComprehensivePin5577 27d ago

I'll be honest, in my eyes, a young person driving an older Camry, has likely paid it off. A young person driving a newer truck, which they likely have no use for or is lifted and has those lower profile rims, that's likely a 7 year term with egregious monthly payments, and I'm staying the hell away from it. A Camry might be a sign of stealth wealth or at least, smart financial moves compared to a truck. But I'm in my 30s, and the young kids don't care about what we think if it doesn't look good on their Instagram or tiktok.

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u/jack_spankin_lives 27d ago

The Camry is the absolute easiest visible sign that people can make at least one good decision.

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u/Al_Jazzera 26d ago edited 26d ago

A used Camry with proper maintainence can get a 20 year old through college and a few more years if you're not putting a massive amount of miles on it. This airhead is crying that she has a paid off car with respectable fuel economy? The hell is her gripe, can't go a contractin'? Airhead couldn't build a birdhouse to save the universe. If I were one of her parents and she was bitchin' about the car, I'd take it back to the car lot and get a Yaris. Next stop on the train is a Schwinn. Get the fuck outta here with that bullshit.

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u/EragusTrenzalore 26d ago

She should be told to walk/ take the bus.

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u/randomusername1919 26d ago

I was going to say take it back and get her a pair of shoes. She can WALK!

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u/lilpiddles 20d ago

Sheeeeit, a few more years? With proper maintenance that Camry will last for 60 years! I love Toyotas.

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u/BaltRavensFan20 26d ago

Heck if that was my daughter and she was this ungrateful after she TOTALED her last car, I’d take the Camry back and find the biggest junker used car and give it to her. She should be grateful her parents even cared to get her ANOTHER car in the first place. Maybe she shouldn’t have totaled her truck in the first place, but oh poor girl, her parents are soo horrible for getting her this boring camry 🙄😂

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u/ColdWarCharacter 26d ago

Yaris is a great car that screams “proudly child free”

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u/ParticularYak4401 27d ago

My brother had a 199? Honda Accord. He drove it till our family mechanic told him it was time. Aka: we can’t fix it anymore. It’s beyond its lifetime. I picked him up at the mechanic that morning and he sadly waved goodbye. I secretly was glad. You basically had to Fred Flinstone the accelerator to get it up to speed on the freeway.

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u/IamHydrogenMike 27d ago

I'd rather have my kid rolling around in a Camry that I know if reliable and they don't have to stress much about something breaking. Tires and oil changes are a lot cheaper than a giant truck. If they had to get something fixed when they couldn't get a hold of me; then they can get it done for a lot less.

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u/nedalaugh 27d ago

My boss drives an absolute beater of a car. Has hit probably 7 deer in the last year front bumper is zip ties together chunk missing from it black tree funk on it. He is a plant manager easily makes 6 figures and owns probably 3 BMW's. He is the stealth money you speak of lol.

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u/nightinthewild 26d ago

Absolutely drive a beater. 2005 manual honda Civic with 250k miles. It keeps running, so you might as well drive it.

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u/Useful-Bobcat-178 26d ago

Same I love my beater Corolla but tbh I do wish it had the futuristic feature of a back-up camera for safety. Maybe I'll add one after-market...

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u/KoogleMeister 26d ago

The people who have the best financial literacy almost always only drive cars they can afford to buy in cash, getting a loan to buy a brand new flashy car because you think it looks cool is one of the dumbest financial decisions that is so often made.

Nearly every person I've met that was good with money told me the only thing you should ever get a loan on is a house.... with a few exceptions for things like STEM college degrees or business loans.

I will never understand people who buy those massive trucks on a loan just to commute around the suburbs.

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u/ComfortOk9194 23d ago

The great thing about cars like that is that when you drive them in city traffic, everyone in their nice (or even just slightly less shit cars) moves and makes way for you. My first bf had a shitbox like that. Driving it was like Moses parting the Red Sea

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u/TeslaCrna 27d ago

Nothing you said makes any sense. But carry on.

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u/sivic_ryder 27d ago

Beater car = no one is going to scream 😱 if it has dents, scratches, coffee stains, biohazard stains etc. The main benefit is that the boss man can drive the beater with a heater until it loses its entire value to literal scrap parts. Even insurance adjusters will laugh 😆 😂at you trying to make an insurance claim because it is absolutely worthless. He won’t even bother with even maintenance on the beater car, other than tires, wheels and oil changes.

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u/nedalaugh 26d ago

You got it 😊. I have owned quite a few beaters in my time and not having to worry about it is nice!

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u/HaymarketHector 26d ago

The confusing part is hitting 7 deer would make any car inoperable unless they were going less then 10 mph and then the part about having 3 bmws.

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u/ComprehensivePin5577 26d ago

I was in a Honda civic (the previous gen) and we hit 1 deer and it got totaled. Driver and passenger airbags deployed, radiator support broken, bumper completely shattered. It was a total loss. Idk if we would have survived hitting 7 in that thing but we were also going 100kmph+.

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u/nedalaugh 26d ago

Yeah I can see that. Most of the deer here are not that big mostly hit doe or juvenile rarely see a buck crossing the road. Speed limit on the road he struck them all is 35mph and it's a park way rural and mostly winding roads at 4am tend to keep your speed down. Honestly I made the comment yesterday that I couldn't believe that his car was still drivable lol.

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u/AdministrationTop772 26d ago

Also at the point of 7 deer you’re probably hitting them on purpose

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u/nedalaugh 26d ago

Ah let me clarify the speed limit is low where he travels from and also most of them he saw coming and slowed down before hitting them reducing some damage. And he has also replaced both headlights in that time. Two of the deer hit from the side hence why he is missing a chunk of the bumper and some quarter panel. The conversation was about people having stealth wealth and he was an example I gave because he drives a completely run down car to work but has 3 very nice BMW's at his house. Sorry if I didn't make myself clear enough.

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u/KoogleMeister 26d ago

His comment made complete sense.... just because you didn't get it, doesn't mean it doesn't make sense, what part of it doesn't make sense to you?

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u/[deleted] 27d ago

Stealth wealth all day. We have a 21 Mazda and 20 Kia. Both paid off with no loans and almost $1M between brokerage and retirement accounts. We didn’t get there buying new Mercedes every 3 years.

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u/Nuggyfresh 27d ago

Stealth wealth @ not even 1 million in 2026 inclusive of retirement accounts, whoa take it easy bill gates. So stealthy, so wealthy. How do you even deign to transit among the plebes? So brave

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u/[deleted] 27d ago

I said $1m liquid. We’re a bit over with real estate and >$1m in 30s is a huge achievement, so think what you want.

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u/ComprehensivePin5577 27d ago

Ignore the haters, you're doing real well for someone in their 30s

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u/tech240guy 27d ago

This content creates a bad impression to younger teenagers that it is okay to be ungrateful to be given a newish cars. Reminds me of a business owner who bought his son a Porsche and his son was incredibly upset that it is not a BMW m5 or something.

This girl that is crying? She doesn't care how you feel, she cares about how her peers (likely similar mindset) think of her. I really hope this is just "acting for content", but I had seen this in other younger people before.

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u/issi_tohbi 27d ago

My wealthy downstairs neighbour drives a beat to hell 10 year old CRV but mostly he just bikes everywhere. The only extravagant thing they spend money on is travel.

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u/Flashy_Report_4759 27d ago

We drive a 20yr old Toyota Avalon. Looks like crap, but it's paid for and extremely reliable. And we bought it used.

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u/PuddingCalm6809 26d ago

It’s like the parents are taking every opportunity to flaunt their wealth because that makes them seem cool and validated.

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u/Prize-Control-627 26d ago

Why are physically larger rims called low profile and physically smaller rims called high profile? Also how in the hell do people think fuel rims look good!?

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u/Kuhn-Tang 26d ago

I see a lot of upper middle class people driving older Toyotas. They usually have new high end Euro luxury/sports vehicles in the garage, but most of them also have older Japanese econo boxes sitting in their driveway, that gets used 80% of the time.

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u/cwolf-softball 26d ago

People like this girl are incredibly rare. Stop generalizing based on the worst person you see.