I was on the Tesla 3 waiting list many years ago. When I hit the top of the list I wasn’t totally ready to buy it just yet so I stalled. Eventually I got moved to the Tesla Y list and again waited while family things sorted out. In the end, I got my reservation money back and I’m very very very glad that I didn’t buy:
- A new car for no real reason (I drove my 2004 Subaru for another 10 years or so)
- A car product that’s turning out to be of terrible longevity
- From a Nazi
Drove the 2004 Subaru until we sold it and moved to a country where we don’t need a car at all. Much better way of life.
I haven’t heard about the terrible longevity. They even top the consumer reports list for EVs. What sorts of longevity issues are there?
A luxury car complete with touchscreens, back when a touchscreen was magical and revolutionary. Car maintenance and privacy concerns have taught me to love the very opposite, a 90s Chevy.
At first I was embarrassed & disappointed that my new car had no futuristic modern features whatsoever, just old-fashioned tactile knobs & buttons. But seeing all the Tesla & electric car fiascos & nonsense over the past year, I’m now ridiculously grateful for this basic vehicle I have.
drugs
A live in girlfriend with a good job so I could stay home, grow weed and play video games. God i was stupid
A spouse, because they would have (and still do) deserve better.
So many things. But for some reason the only one I can think of right now is in 2003 I wanted a memory foam mattress so urgently I could cry. We had no furniture whatsoever. But in retrospect I’m glad we didn’t get a mattress because everything is temporary and everything I’ve ever acquired has poofed into oblivion anyway. Best to live without. Poverty builds character. I guess.
