Yeah but you forget most kids nowadays are handed everything they want and still complain about it.

 

I really can't complain since my parents do more for me than their parents did. Of course I'm a better kid overall but that doesn't entitle me to a reward. Asking for gifts is rude, and I don't mean this to offend anybody in this thread, but it is what it is...sorry.

 

isnt he going through school? i dont think its fair to be on his ass about not doing the payments himself.

 

Please, like anybody deserves a reward for going to school.

 

what are you talking about? if he's going to school full time, its not easy having the money to pay for insurance and a car during school. what reward?

 

Wow, well if that's the case my parents must be horrible. Where do I sign up for new ones!

The reward is: people go to school and drive crappy cars so they can graduate from school and buy a nice car. It's a reward to themself in exchange for their hard work. Now we have somebody saying that their parents are bad because they won't pay for insurance on something that is fairly useless other than to be fun. What do you call that? If it isn't a reward or a gift, then what is it? And what is it in exchange for? "Because I'm your child" doesn't work.

I think there's a major lack of respect here (at least in how the story is told), and going to school full time doesn't justify it. You just don't entitle yourself to your parent's money.

 

oh. i thought you were talking about his parents helping him out with car payments. not the bike.

 

Personally if I was his parents I would say go ahead.....but he has to sell the car to get the bike

 

Well they are related, with how they want to handle the situation. Okay, so you want the bike...then you don't get us paying for your car. If you say "I want you to pay for part of my car AND be on your insurance" then you are telling them how to spend their money, aren't you?

 

:wtf: Have you even ridden an EX500 Nightshade? As a former EX500a (the crappier older one) rider, I have to disagree. I'm even a lightweight at only around 155lbs (was around 140lbs when I rode the EX though). I'd ridden it on the freeway plenty of times from the SFBA to SB and SLO as well as back roads and rarely had trouble with wind gusts from rigs and the like. In the right hands, my own hands definitely excluded h:, the little EX is a very capable street performer. I'd recommend the 93+ d model though which has a few updates but is basically the same thing. It even gets great gas mileage and is cheap to insure.

That said hondapilot, if your parents are helping you with all your expenses, you may just have to wait it out until you are financially independent. Sucks but that's life. I'm even contemplating selling off my current bike for now to go back to school but we'll see.

Another thing, I see nothing wrong with a person's parents helping them out with school expenses and even car payments. When I was younger, I used to get jealous like so many people on this board. I've never had a new car and I used to insist on paying for my own clothes and my own classes to be "independent". Now I realize that if one can provide a headstart for their kids, why not give it to them? I know many people who've been handed things from bicycles to new cars and even help with purchasing homes by their parents and they're still perfectly well adjusted individuals. What's more, no matter how much you or I may think they're spoiled brats, nothing's going to change the fact that they've got the headstart and that's that. So my advice is to take care of your own business and just respect others the way you'd expect to be respected.