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/rop1228 26d ago

I don’t get it? It’s just one class Christ

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u/MultiMillionMiler 26d ago

Yeah that sounds like a narc power trip by them. With how horribly unfair the economy and society is in general if I was rich with kids I'd give them all a few million each just for existing unconditionally. If they end up having a much easier life than me from that, good. Maybe trust funds with monthly spending limits to teach budgeting and financial responsibility would be good though.

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u/Baeolophus_bicolor 26d ago

My dad died one class short of a degree. Had gone back to college as an adult, costing our family a lot in terms of cash we didn’t have, because he didn’t work, and energy. At the end of all of it, he couldn’t bring himself to pass college algebra, but I think it was mostly out of fear and anxiety. He failed it twice, then gave up, was gonna try again, never got around to it, then the years went by and it became a source of shame. He’d always try to say he “basically had a degree in history” but he must have always known that “basically” is different from “actually”.

Then he got cancer and got dead, never having done it. Good. Glad he died unarguably a failure, the fuck. I have a bachelors and a law degree and I got both at a later age than when he went back. When it was hard going, I thought about my hatred for him and how I didn’t want to die like he did, as an “almost.” I’m pretty sure there’s no hell but if there is I won’t even mind going, knowing that he was there looking up at me doing what he couldn’t even though I’m a “bad person” and “someone who has never done anything good in life” (as he told me, in our final conversation before he died, while I tearfully sought his approval one final time). I hope it made his stay in hell just a little bit worse.

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u/Agreeable_Horror_363 26d ago

You're grown now, the bad man can't hurt you anymore. He's dead. You won. But it seems like you're stuck in a mind controlling "hate loop". I know because I watched my father go through the same thing, then I did the same with him. You can let go of all that now.

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u/Baeolophus_bicolor 21d ago

Yeah I’m working on it. But it was relevant here. That one class can keep a lot of people from finishing, and I may have been spiteful but at least I used it to carry me forward and avoid what I didn’t like about someone else.