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Feeling Let Down by Ex-Girlfriend and Confused! Please Help Me!!!?

Hi guys I know this is pretty long but please help me out if you can find it in your heart to aid a really down college student.

I will choose a best answer and dish out points whenever possible

Alright so basically, my ex-girlfriend and I broke up like 3 months ago because she said that she needed time to “grow up”. Basically, we decided to still be friends because we really still like each other and get along great. However, I am still very much in love with her.

The problem is that lately I’ve been feeling really down around my ex and kind of jealous and I don’t know why. She’s basically perfect at everything. She’s very attractive because a lot of guys flirt with her, wears size 00 pants, exercises constantly, her parents are wealthier than mine as she lives in a half a million dollar house and her dad retired at the age of 48, she always gets whatever she wants (material-wise) i.e. she has two pairs of Uggs, wears all Abercrombie clothing, gets the newest iPod every year, breaks her cell phone at least 3 times a year, has two pairs of Sperry type shoes, and gets Tiffany and Co. jewelry costing around $175 once a year (She gets all this stuff usually for Christmas or just because presents but she always gets whats on her list of wants), she makes friends easily, has time to join lots of clubs in college, works as a store model for Abercrombie and has a higher GPA than me while majoring in journalism, and sometimes I feel like she has all of God’s blessing even though she is extremely atheist.

However, I am the complete opposite as I always work for what I get. I’m in one of the top 10 business schools in the nation but struggle to maintain a 3.0 GPA and spend most of my time studying, I haven’t met very many people in college because I’m trying to save money by living at home with my parents (my ex lives in the dorms which her parents pay for even though her parents live 2 blocks away from campus), I spend all my free time at home, I don’t find myself as attractive because I’ve only worked for American Eagle and I am Asian, my parents want me to earn things so I have to work to pay for my clothes, cell phone, car repairs and other stuff I want unlike my ex.

I just feel crappy to the point that I’ve been unmotivated to study and I want to sleep all day. I’ve stopped going to the gym and I have been wallowing in my own self-pity, I’m always wishing that my parents were a lot richer because my ex gets to finish college at her own pace while I’m pressured to finish in 4 while her parents can also afford to let her take summer classes not only at where we go to school but to other colleges such as New York University and/or Chicago to make her workload easier while I don’t have that luxury. She also got a chance to study abroad twice.

The only thing I feel like I have an advantage over her is that I know how to invest and save my money better than her because she can’t save her own money at all. She doesn’t even know how the basic definition of a stock or how a credit and debit card work. I am very ambitious and always look for ways to make extra money through investing and saving but I always still feel down because I know that she’ll still get ahead of me in the future because her father is already investing money for her for her retirement in the thousands already.

Not only does she get all that stuff but her little sister and her brother get all the stuff they want to. Her sister basically gets everything my ex does like a new iPod at the same time my ex does and wears Abercrombie only also. However, if she doesn’t get her way at all, she always throws a fit (I’ve been there to witness it) until she gets her way. I don’t understand how she gets all this stuff either. Is it possible to get a life like this when her dad worked as an engineer for GM for 20 years and is now retired and her mom is a territorial manager for Johnson and Johnson?

Despite all this I feel like God’s let me down. Why does he bless people that don’t believe in him? Should I stay away from my ex even though I still love her? She is white and we’ve known each other for 4 years and dated each other for 2 and a half years. Can a relationship with 2 different people like this work out again? Why do I feel this way? I get really jealous because no girls flirt with me at college compared to guys hitting on her. What should I do? Am I even in her league at all?

I don’t get what this essay means, help me!?

I read an essay like this:

I envy intellectuals who ponder weighty questions like: “What is the meaning of life?” “Is God dead?” I don’t have time to explore these particular conundrums. I’m much too busy searching for answers to what keeps airplanes up, why doesn’t this month’s money last until next month’s Social Security check, and-most important-where can i park the car? 
  
Compared to this last burning issue, even the reflections of the great philosophers seem insignificant. For example, consider “What is the meaning of life?” If you can’t find a parking space, life has no meaning. You can’t raise a family, become a Broadway star, or discover a cure for cancer unless you can get out of your car. As for life after death, who knows? I’m not even convinced there’s life off the expressway. I do have a theory about God, though. I don’t think He’s dead. He’s probably just double parked somewhere.
  
I know exactly how He feels, because it often seems that my life revolves around available parking. In fact, an astrologer once told me that the sign with which I am most compatible is Free Parking. I don’t make plans to be anywhere unless I’m assured a parking space. That’s why I never went to a presidential inaugural ball, any of Liz’s or Zsa Zsa’s weddings, or any A-list bash, for that matter. Not that I’ve ever been invited, but it’s just as well, because I would have had nothing appropriate to wear to any of these events-again, because of parking problems. There’s a great little consignment shop downtown where a worn-just-once designer original costs a fraction of the price of an unimaginative dress jammed on a rack with dozens of duplicates in the department stores of the shopping mall. But though the consignment shop has cheap chic, it doesn’t have the mall’s parking. So i’ve resigned myself to spending triple my clothes budget for the privilege of going to a party and seeing clones of my dress on at least two other women and possibly one man, all of whom look prettier in it than I do.
 
Shopping for groceries is equally frustrating. I don’t go to the supermarket that has the best-quality food or the lowest prices. I shop at the one with the largest parking lot. I have similar problems when dining out with friends. Last week it was my turn to drive. I ignored their pleas to go to a favorite restaurant whose chief is a Cordon Bleu graduate and whose owner dropped out of business school the day before the lesson on profit-making. I opted instead for a local eatery where the food is inedible and the prices incredible. “Not the Pit Stop,” my friends groaned. “The cook’s a part-time mechanic. He uses motor oil in the salad, and his prime ribs taste like Goodyear rejects.” “Who cares?” said I. “They have valet parking.”
 
The same insane reasoning prompted me to attend every single Red Sox home game last season. I hate baseball, but a friend who had to be out of town all summer gave me custody of his season’s reserved parking space. How could I not take advantage of that?
  
But all the foregoing is trivial compared to the basic areas of my life that have been shaped solely by available parking. I have no doubt, for instance, that I would have given Neil Simon some stiff competition if it weren’t for the fact that there was no parking lot at a city school that offered a great playwriting course. Or, if I found that Broadway wasn’t my scene, I could have been president of a major corporation. Unfortunately, whenever I went on job interviews, instead of inquiring about salaries, 401Ks, and promotion possibilities, I asked only about reserved employee parking. Consequently, I had some great parking spaces but some lousy, dead-end jobs.
 
Not only did I blow my chances of becoming a wealthy, powerful corporate executive, I also passed up every opportunity to marry one, I refused to wed unless the ceremony included a promise by the groom to park my car until death do us part, and they all balked at that. I would have even turned down Paul Newman in his prime, unless he swore he wouldn’t give Joanne custody of the driveway and garage. (Continued)
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Q. What does the last sentence mean?
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If Prince Charming had ever shown up with a crystal slipper large enough to fit me, I would have turned him down, too. How could I have adjusted to life in a castle? With all those surrounding moats, the closest parking is probably two acres beyond the jousting field.
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Q. What does the last sentence mean?
 

“AVG MPG” display message gone crazy after battery replacement?? Help T-T?

Hello there!

I have an 09 Ford Focus SE, i bought it 4 months ago and so far it just had minor issues, not really with the performance, more with the carpet, 12v outlet… anyhow.

On sunday I was driving up and down the whole day. Until I finally decided to go back around my house. I noticed i had the last quarter of gas left so i went to put gas.

Everything fine, put some gas, go back to the car aaaandd it didnt turn on x.x. I had the parking light on and instrument cluster light started blinking as if it was static and the gauges needles started shaking below zero on the speedometer and the thing that messures the rpm [lol sorry i forgot the name] oh and it made this electric sound, like an electric pprrrr, much like a matraca http://www.parroquiadegibraleon.org/…es/matraca.jpg

First thing i tho: “***** i put diesel on it >.<” So i double checked and no, it was gas. Tried again and same sound and same shaking needles with the blinking light.

I called a friend and her bf conected the battery of her car to mine for a minute and then we tried and it worked. I drove it home and parked it.
Here is the issue: The message display on the instrument cluster has a device that, depending on how you drive, it will tell you how much miles per gallon you are doing. If anyone else has a Ford Focus, you guys know that this number goes up 0.2 miles in probably a day or two of perfect driving, and it would go down the same if you are speeding off and driving horribly. I had the “AVG MPG” display at 31.5 [and dammn thats hard to accomplish]. When the car finally turned on after the jumpstart that number was down to 10!!!!!!!!!!!!!! As i drove it home i noticed that it would go up like crazy.. all the way to 28avgmpg. I had it idling for a minute in front of my house and tht 28 went down to 0! and that is NOT NORMAL

Next day in the morning it didnt work again even tho it sounded as if it was trryyying.. but in the end it came back to the matraca sound.

I called a tow truck to take it to the dealer, the guy took 1hr to get there. When he is finally there, he turns the key aand the car turns on [WTF!? grrr] So i just drove it to the dealer.

The guys at the dealer said they checked the battery and it was giving a miserable 5.13V, so i had them change it. They replaced the battery with a brand new one, i went to pick up the car and yes, now it turns on normally [it actually sounds pretty cool, it doesnt make that hesitating 'do-i-wanna-turn-on-or-not' noise]..

BUT!!!!

The “AVG MPG” display is still going crazy… when driving it it could go up to 34mpg [which is imposible for the automatic transmission i have], when im at a red light it goes down to 29mpg and then up again and then when i finally park the car without turning off the engine starts going dowwnnn to ZERO. The idiots at the dealer say this is normal. ISS NOOOTT I have had 2 ford focus so far, one in 01/2009 that i gave away and this one, and that behavior is not normal T.T

Does anyone know what is going on? Ive been trying to read about it and so far i got [in the owners manual] that after the battery is replaced the computer that controls the engine needs to “relearn” how to drive or something o.O. It said to have the car idle and then drive it for 15 mins on a highway and then 20 min stop-and-go in the city. Then let the engine settle for at leat 8 hours and try again the same cycle. Did that too and it didnt work.

Note: When i have the key in the ON position without cranking the engine, the “engine light” stays on along with the other light but then it BLINKS 8 or 7 times…

Please heelpp!!!

- Mish!

help! break pads AND rotors…how often do they need to be replaced?

I took my Jeep to get an oil change yesterday and the mechanic told me they noticed that my FRONT break pads were 85% worn, and the rotors will need to be replaced. They said I would need a break flush, my rear breaks cleaned, and completely new front pads & rotors.

Funny thing is, I had ALL FOUR of my break pads and rotors replaced 4 years ago. I paid a heck a lot of money for that job and I sure can’t afford to replace the front ones right now! Are they just trying to get my money? Is 4 years typical for a new rotor and break pad service???

My brother works on Jeeps and has replaced his own breaks since he’s owned Jeeps, and when he gets a chance he will take a look at them for me. But right now I wanted to ask a mechanic out there who can be honest with me. How did my rotors run down in less than 40k miles?

Can the rotors really wear down before the break pads completely wear down??? Or do the pads wear down first, then the rotors become affected?

I do stop a LOT going to school and work and a few times I had to break HARD to avoid a potential accident…so maybe my style of driving could affect it?

Please explain! thanks!

Dodge Ram ? about power steering….need help!!!!?

1st off I need to replace my power steering pump. So I called Pep Boys & they had one in stock so I took mine off and went to get it. They told me they couldn’t find it after they had told me over the phone they had it. What they had was one for a 2001 but I needed a 2002/5.9L/V-8. They spent a good 30 mins. researching to tell me the pump I took of my truck was for a Dakota or a Durango not a Ram. So I left & went to Advance Auto, they ordered the part for me & also ordered the pulley (I thought it was metal but it was plastic so when using the vice grip I broke it & had to get another one) So today I go pick them up & the pump is exactly the same as what I took off BUT the pulley they ordered for my truck was much bigger so they measured the one that came off the truck and found that the pulley was really a Dakota pulley instead (although the system pulled it up to be a Ram) Anyone had this problem before and what is going on?? Thanks.

Please Help! Confusing feelings About Ex-Girlfriend! Feeling Really Trapped!?

Hi guys I know this is pretty long but please help me out if you can find it in your heart to aid a really down college student.

I will choose a best answer and dish out points whenever possible

Alright so basically, my ex-girlfriend and I broke up like 3 months ago because she said that she needed time to “grow up”. Basically, we decided to still be friends because we really still like each other and get along great. However, I am still very much in love with her.

The problem is that lately I’ve been feeling really down around my ex and kind of jealous and I don’t know why. She’s basically perfect at everything. She’s very attractive because a lot of guys flirt with her, wears size 00 pants, exercises constantly, her parents are wealthier than mine as she lives in a half a million dollar house and her dad retired at the age of 48, she always gets whatever she wants (material-wise) i.e. she has two pairs of Uggs, wears all Abercrombie clothing, gets the newest iPod every year, breaks her cell phone at least 3 times a year, has two pairs of Sperry type shoes, and gets Tiffany and Co. jewelry costing around $175 once a year (She gets all this stuff usually for Christmas or just because presents but she always gets whats on her list of wants), she makes friends easily, has time to join lots of clubs in college, works as a store model for Abercrombie and has a higher GPA than me while majoring in journalism, and sometimes I feel like she has all of God’s blessing even though she is extremely atheist.

However, I am the complete opposite as I always work for what I get. I’m in one of the top 10 business schools in the nation but struggle to maintain a 3.0 GPA and spend most of my time studying, I haven’t met very many people in college because I’m trying to save money by living at home with my parents (my ex lives in the dorms which her parents pay for), I spend all my free time at home, I don’t find myself as attractive because I’ve only worked for American Eagle and I am Asian, my parents want me to earn things so I have to work to pay for my clothes, cell phone, car repairs and other stuff I want unlike my ex, and lately I’ve felt like God’s deserted me even though I try to follow his teachings.

I just feel crappy to the point that I’ve been unmotivated to study and I want to sleep all day. I’ve stopped going to the gym and I have been wallowing in my own self-pity, I’m always wishing that my parents were a lot richer because my ex gets to finish college at her own pace while I’m pressured to finish in 4 while her parents can also afford to let her take summer classes to make her workload easier while I don’t have that luxury.

The only thing I feel like I have an advantage over her is that I know how to invest and save my money better than her because she can’t save her own money at all. She doesn’t even know how the basic definition of a stock or how a credit and debit card work. I am very ambitious and always look for ways to make extra money through investing and saving but I always still feel down because I know that she’ll still get ahead of me in the future because her father is already investing money for her for her retirement in the thousands already.

Despite all this I feel like God’s let me down. Why does he bless people that don’t believe in him? Should I stay away from my ex even though I still love her? She is white and we’ve known each other for 4 years and dated each other for 2 and a half years. Can a relationship with 2 different people like this work out again? Why do I feel this way? I get really jealous because no girls flirt with me at college compared to guys hitting on her. What should I do?

-Please help torn college student

Car repair help needed in Columbus Ohio?

Does anyone have a favorite mechanic they go to that:

1) treats them fair and is honest
2) offers a low price
3) can repair brake lines, evaporator lines, and fuel lines.

also, have you ever had those 3 parts replaced, for how much, and where? I was quoted a price of $1300!
oh yeah, i have a 95 toyota camry, 4 cylinder.

Demand , Supply , Price and Elasticity . Dealing with Ford motors and I need some help?

Using the ideas above, why would the price of the Ford Model T decline as Ford improved the assembly line . Any ideas on making supply and demand curves making shifts as needed .
Any help will help me , I’m just in need of some help and would very much appreciate it

can someone help me with my vw bug?

the lights are all jacked up :(
a while ago some stupid mechanic came to check on my brothers car and he looked at mine too
he just added some antifreeze but the antifreeze light still shows up once in a while :P but that’s just one problem

when i turn on my car the running lights work just fine, but when i turn the knob right (when it’s dark and i cant see the speedometer) instead of the regular lights turning on my high-beams turn on without me pulling to knob to turn them on…. and when i do pull the knob nothing happens the high-beams stay on

i have turned the lights every which way direction i can but i cant get the problem fixed

and my mom is a complete fucktard she has no idea how a VW works and she is screaming at me saying that i don’t know what the hell im talking about because the running lights are good enough T_T apparently the need to see while driving has become a luxury

i don’t know what happened and i don’t know if the mechanic messed around in there while he was adding antifreeze urrgg i hate mechanics i wish i can work on my car myself but im not good enough to do that yet
and im too poor to go to a VW dealership so they can charge me the cost of a vital organ to fix it

please help me in any way you can!
it’s a 2002 VW turbo Diesel Beetle (yes the bugs do come in diesel, you dont know how many people have asked me that)
ok i need to mention what the shich looks like
its a dial, i turn it to the right and the lights are supposed to come on i pull it (while the lights are on) and the highbeams are supposed to turn on
and when i push it down and to the left again it turns off (excep tthe running lights which are on whenever the car is)

I need to find a source for a vacuum piston for a 1986 honda, or an alternative part. Please help!?

I recently purchased my first motorcycle, it’s a 1986 honda rebel 450. I got it for a great price, and it runs fine except for a couple things. Long story short, the diaphragm on one of the vacuum pistons has two small rips in it(less than one centimeter each). I need a replacement, except the part has been discontinued by honda. Is there another brand I could use? Is there a way I could repair the rips? Or does anyone know of a good source for vintage honda parts? Carburetors in particular.

Thanks in advance for you help, it’s much appreciated.

WHAT MOVIE has a scene hand reaches up from inside a driving mini van’s back window and spells help in blood?

This has been bugging me for a while now. All I remember is a mini van like car driving on the highway and a bloody hand reaches up from the trunk (inside the car) and writes on the window “help” or “help me” or something like that. I got the impression that the person was tied up in the back or something. That’s all I remember…

Help With Ex Please! Need Advice! Really Desperate!?

Hi guys I know this is pretty long but please help me out if you can find it in your heart to aid a really down college student.

I will choose a best answer and dish out points whenever possible

Alright so basically, my ex-girlfriend and I broke up like 3 months ago because she said that she needed time to “grow up”. Basically, we decided to still be friends because we really still like each other and get along great. However, I am still very much in love with her.

The problem is that lately I’ve been feeling really down around my ex and kind of jealous and I don’t know why. She’s basically perfect at everything. She’s very attractive because a lot of guys flirt with her, wears size 00 pants, exercises constantly, her parents are wealthier than mine as she lives in a half a million dollar house and her dad retired at the age of 48, she always gets whatever she wants (material-wise) i.e. she has two pairs of Uggs, wears all Abercrombie clothing, gets the newest iPod every year, breaks her cell phone at least 3 times a year, has two pairs of Sperry type shoes, and gets Tiffany and Co. jewelry costing around $175 once a year (She gets all this stuff usually for Christmas or just because presents but she always gets whats on her list of wants), she makes friends easily, has time to join lots of clubs in college, works as a store model for Abercrombie and has a higher GPA than me while majoring in journalism, and sometimes I feel like she has all of God’s blessing even though she is extremely atheist.

However, I am the complete opposite as I always work for what I get. I’m in one of the top 10 business schools in the nation but struggle to maintain a 3.0 GPA and spend most of my time studying, I haven’t met very many people in college because I’m trying to save money by living at home with my parents (my ex lives in the dorms which her parents pay for even though her parents live 2 blocks away from campus), I spend all my free time at home, I don’t find myself as attractive because I’ve only worked for American Eagle and I am Asian, my parents want me to earn things so I have to work to pay for my clothes, cell phone, car repairs and other stuff I want unlike my ex.

I just feel crappy to the point that I’ve been unmotivated to study and I want to sleep all day. I’ve stopped going to the gym and I have been wallowing in my own self-pity, I’m always wishing that my parents were a lot richer because my ex gets to finish college at her own pace while I’m pressured to finish in 4 while her parents can also afford to let her take summer classes not only at where we go to school but to other colleges such as New York University and/or Chicago to make her workload easier while I don’t have that luxury. She also got a chance to study abroad twice.

The only thing I feel like I have an advantage over her is that I know how to invest and save my money better than her because she can’t save her own money at all. She doesn’t even know how the basic definition of a stock or how a credit and debit card work. I am very ambitious and always look for ways to make extra money through investing and saving but I always still feel down because I know that she’ll still get ahead of me in the future because her father is already investing money for her for her retirement in the thousands already.

Not only does she get all that stuff but her little sister and her brother get all the stuff they want to. Her sister basically gets everything my ex does like a new iPod at the same time my ex does and wears Abercrombie only also. However, if she doesn’t get her way at all, she always throws a fit (I’ve been there to witness it) until she gets her way. I don’t understand how she gets all this stuff either. Is it possible to get a life like this when her dad worked as an engineer for GM for 20 years and is now retired and her mom is a territorial manager for Johnson and Johnson?

Despite all this I feel like God’s let me down. Why does he bless people that don’t believe in him? Should I stay away from my ex even though I still love her? She is white and we’ve known each other for 4 years and dated each other for 2 and a half years. Can a relationship with 2 different people like this work out again? Why do I feel this way? I get really jealous because no girls flirt with me at college compared to guys hitting on her. What should I do? Am I even in her league at all?

Want to learn how to drive manual. Had a motorcycle for a year, will this help?

If I learned to ride a motorcycle before a manual car, will this give me a learning curve when trying to learn a standard transmission car?

I have my eyes set on a Mazda Miata (used and between 1990-1993) and am considering having my mom buy it and then driving it in a parking lot.

I don’t know anyone with a manual so that’s why I’m resorting to this option.

Thanks!

Broken Piston Rod-Plz Help!!!!?

If I have a broken piston rod, would the GAP insurance I have on the car be more likely to fix it or total it because of the cost? I dont know anything about cars but need to know the options. Thanks.
Gap insurance pays the car loan off if the car is totaled out.

Need Help with Ex-Girlfriend Problem! Please!!!?

Hi guys I know this is pretty long but please help me out if you can find it in your heart to aid a really down college student.

I will choose a best answer and dish out points whenever possible

Alright so basically, my ex-girlfriend and I broke up like 3 months ago because she said that she needed time to “grow up”. Basically, we decided to still be friends because we really still like each other and get along great. However, I am still very much in love with her.

The problem is that lately I’ve been feeling really down around my ex and kind of jealous and I don’t know why. She’s basically perfect at everything. She’s very attractive because a lot of guys flirt with her, wears size 00 pants, exercises constantly, her parents are wealthier than mine as she lives in a half a million dollar house and her dad retired at the age of 48, she always gets whatever she wants (material-wise) i.e. she has two pairs of Uggs, wears all Abercrombie clothing, gets the newest iPod every year, breaks her cell phone at least 3 times a year, has two pairs of Sperry type shoes, and gets Tiffany and Co. jewelry costing around $175 once a year (She gets all this stuff usually for Christmas or just because presents but she always gets whats on her list of wants), she makes friends easily, has time to join lots of clubs in college, works as a store model for Abercrombie and has a higher GPA than me while majoring in journalism, and sometimes I feel like she has all of God’s blessing even though she is extremely atheist.

However, I am the complete opposite as I always work for what I get. I’m in one of the top 10 business schools in the nation but struggle to maintain a 3.0 GPA and spend most of my time studying, I haven’t met very many people in college because I’m trying to save money by living at home with my parents (my ex lives in the dorms which her parents pay for), I spend all my free time at home, I don’t find myself as attractive because I’ve only worked for American Eagle and I am Asian, my parents want me to earn things so I have to work to pay for my clothes, cell phone, car repairs and other stuff I want unlike my ex, and lately I’ve felt like God’s deserted me even though I try to follow his teachings.

I just feel crappy to the point that I’ve been unmotivated to study and I want to sleep all day. I’ve stopped going to the gym and I have been wallowing in my own self-pity, I’m always wishing that my parents were a lot richer because my ex gets to finish college at her own pace while I’m pressured to finish in 4 while her parents can also afford to let her take summer classes to make her workload easier while I don’t have that luxury.

The only thing I feel like I have an advantage over her is that I know how to invest and save my money better than her because she can’t save her own money at all. She doesn’t even know how the basic definition of a stock or how a credit and debit card work. I am very ambitious and always look for ways to make extra money through investing and saving but I always still feel down because I know that she’ll still get ahead of me in the future because her father is already investing money for her for her retirement in the thousands already.

Despite all this I feel like God’s let me down. Why does he bless people that don’t believe in him? Should I stay away from my ex even though I still love her? She is white and we’ve known each other for 4 years and dated each other for 2 and a half years. Can a relationship with 2 different people like this work out again? Why do I feel this way? I get really jealous because no girls flirt with me at college compared to guys hitting on her. What should I do?

-Please help torn college student