While the wife has a junked car…
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Ms_Collards — 14 years ago(October 19, 2011 01:43 PM)
That's always been what held the most weight for me with this story. The mom is in a Pinto, the dad is in the new car. She's trapped in a car with not even the luxury of of water to drink while he's dining on lobster with his clients/boss.
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Dinodak — 14 years ago(October 28, 2011 01:37 AM)
So what. He was the one making the money, providing for the family and being the good father and husband. He needed a reliable vehicle to get to and from work. He wasn't going to take an almost dead Pinto on a business trip (important one at that).
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amanjones — 14 years ago(December 03, 2011 07:52 AM)
That really stuck in my craw too. They live in this beautiful mansion, husband zips around in his brand, new sports car, feasting on lobster and chateaubriand, while the wife is stuck in a beater without A/C. And, don't give me that nonsense of how she cheated on him and what not. She was probably driven to cheat by a neglectful and cheapskate husband.
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GuiltyPleasures — 9 years ago(September 12, 2016 05:30 PM)
I was kind of chewing on this one, too.
Say, for instance,
if
in both book and movie,
if
the husband (played by Daniel Hugh Kelly) was initially getting some action on the side (say with some hotsie-totsie secretary), then I could kind of understand her cheating. But STILL, why would you cheat on that sexy, hunk of a husband?!
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tgs333 — 9 years ago(October 10, 2016 01:04 PM)
Depends how you look at it. That could have been a late model Pinto. Ford made them up until 1980, only to be replaced by another piece of crap: Escort.
Pinto was Ford's answer to building a small 4 cylinder car with decent gas milage. It was a piece of crap from the start. While it was a decent family truckster at the time, it was a piece of crap nevertheless. Looking at her driving habits, it probably didn't have that many miles on it. Just a crap car with low miles.
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jclarke@attglobal.net — 13 years ago(March 29, 2013 08:50 PM)
He needed a reliable vehicle to get to and from work.
ROF,L. It wasn't a "reliable vehicle", it was an '80s Jaguar. The Pinto would have been a better bet. -
tgs333 — 9 years ago(October 10, 2016 04:07 PM)
Wasn't his sports car a 2 seater? So the Pinto was the "family" car. If the husband, wife and kid had to go anywhere together they'd have to travel in the clunky old pinto. Maybe he/they weren't being selfish, just "cheap". In respect to the "family" mobile.
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TheSonomaDude — 13 years ago(November 02, 2012 11:32 AM)
My aunt and uncle are like this. Uncle has a brand new Cadillac STV truck while his wife has dinky mid-90's Oldsmobile 88 Special.
I have El Sonoma del Torra de Fiero Syndrome. Be happy you don't.
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bloodontherisers — 12 years ago(May 01, 2013 04:47 PM)
I've seen this a hundred times. The father of a girl I went to school with made damn good money working for Goodyear. They lived in a little run down house, the girl and her sisters all had the same car handed down to them, and her moms car was a wore out '94 Tarus. But her dad had what was probably at the time, a $ 70,000 boat, a new truck, a a brand new Harley. It's lame as hell, but there are lots of people like that,