"JohnnyWasASchoolBoy" (JohnnyWasASchoolBoy)
11/18/2016 at 15:43 • Filed to: None

So my 15-year-old kid is watching !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! right now. Aside from the fact that he should be paying attention to his Grade 10 math class, I’m having a hard time telling him to stop and leave it alone.

The text conversation throughout the day has been entertaining.

Kaden: Check this out. It’s so cool. Bid is only $2701.

Me: No. Go to class.

Kaden: Please.

Me: No

Kaden: I’m not asking you to buy it for me. I’m asking for permission to bid. I’ll buy it.

Me: A. It’s in New York, B. The reserve isn’t met. He probably wants $15 grand for it, C. You’re going to Belgium in February.

Kaden: A. Shipping, duh.., B. The reserve is like $3600, C. I have a job, money saved, and already have Belgium paid for.

Me: (thinking) Dammit.

Kaden: Please

Me: Go to class. School is more important. There’s still 5 days left in the auction

Kaden: Math class is easy, I have 90%. What if I just email him and offer like $3Grand.

Me: Don’t do that.

Kaden: Didn’t you and your buddies co-own an FJ-40 when you were 17.

Me: I don’t see how that’s relevant.

Kaden: Really? Seems super relevant to me.

Me: (thinking) dammit

Me: It’s in the States. Exchange, duty, taxes and shipping will be as much as the vehicle.

Kaden: I’ll get back to you.

Me: Just go to class.

My poor wife is in for a loooong night of Kaden strategising how he can import a RHD FJ40, while I half-heartedly try to dissuade him.

Full disclosure: I kind of want it for myself

DISCUSSION (13)

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > JohnnyWasASchoolBoy
11/18/2016 at 15:53

3600*1.34+taxes+shipping and your kid is doing it right.

EDIT: didn’t notice you already included the exchange. MB

G_Body_Man: Sponsored by the number 3 > JohnnyWasASchoolBoy
11/18/2016 at 16:06

Damn, and that’s a nice one too.

$3k USD is like $4k CAD, and I’m sure there are Opponauts who could potentially help out in transport. Add in 6.1% duty, and that’s $4300 CAD plus local taxes.

In a Mini; let them mock me as My Mini Countryman is higher than you > JohnnyWasASchoolBoy
11/18/2016 at 16:14

Kinja'd!!!

TFW 18 and no car

JohnnyWasASchoolBoy > In a Mini; let them mock me as My Mini Countryman is higher than you
11/18/2016 at 16:27

I hear you. Feel better knowing that we aren’t buying it for him. We’re fortunate that he’s motivated and that we live in a place with a good-enough economy that there are lots of jobs for kids who want to work. He really wants a 4x4. We aren’t buying it. So he has to work.

traitor joe > JohnnyWasASchoolBoy
11/18/2016 at 17:00

You should let him bid on it. There is absolutely 100% no chance that the end price will be anywhere near $3,000. If he does by some miracle end up winning the auction for a reasonable price, the headache and cost of shipping and importing the car will be an important lesson.

Hot Takes Salesman > JohnnyWasASchoolBoy
11/18/2016 at 17:01

We’re the same age and instead of focusing on math he’s focused on getting into FJ40s and instead of focusing on math I’m focusing on getting into girls lmao

Long story short people our age really have our priorities together

JohnnyWasASchoolBoy > Hot Takes Salesman
11/18/2016 at 17:36

I have no worries about the youth of today. Although you really should focus on math just a little more.