Cars...a tale of an FU vehicle
This is the short story of DH and his FU vehicle.
When DH filed for divorce from Beaver, Beaver has just bought a new car using DH's credit and money. Beaver didn't work. DH got a call at work one day telling him he needed to meet Beaver at the car dealership that she had bought a new car and DH needed to sign the loan papers. WTF...Dh didn't even know she was going to buy a new car. However, this was about 6 months before he filed for divorce..so he went up and signed the papers to keep the peace. Their van was traded in on a brand spanking new Toyata Matrix. After all according to Beaver, she NEEEEDEEEED a new vehicle now that she had two kids. (Riddle me this fellow bat people...the Dodge Van she had was bigger than the matrix and was only 2 years older...how did this make any sense? )
Now DH had been stuck with Beaver's old ride that she brought to the marriage. He drove it because he only needed to go to work and the bar..so he really didn't need a nice car. DH's car was a 10 year old Honda Civic that Beaver had bought just prior to dating DH. Dh had paid it off after they married. Dh, however, hated this car. It was beat up, Beaver had lost the hubcaps off it ( HTF do you do that). The inside smelled like an ashtry (DH and Beaver both smoked at the time)...and I don't think the thing had been cleaned but maybe once in 10 years. IT WAS NASTY. (Yes..this was partly DH's problem...but he hated the car so he just didn't care)
In the divorce, Beaver HAAAAADDDD to have the new matrix. DH was like, ok but you get the payment, all $450. They had to roll the negative equity of the van into this new car (again...how did any of this make sense). Beaver eager to keep her new car status...agreed. DH took the old civic and drove it for another 2 years...the time it took to complete the divorce and for him to sell the marital house. Once the house sold and his child support was set, DH figured out he could afford a newer car. Notice newer..not NEW.
The hunt began....for a newer car. Enter the Mercedes dealership. DH went to drool on the new mercedes but found a super nice used mercedes that was in his price range. He drove it...and the love affair began. This car was pristine...low milage and was in his price range. DH bought the car that day.
Next day was pick up day for DH. DH drove to Beaver's parents house ( where she was living) to pick up the kids. He gets there and the door opens. Beaver sees the car and proceeds to slam the door. DH gets out and knocks on the door. Beaver opens the door and proceeds to say..
WHERE DID YOU GET THAT CAR? YOU DON'T DESERVE A CAR LIKE THAT!!!!!! YOU ONLY DESERVE MY CAST OFF OLD BEATER. IF YOU CAN AFFORD THAT CAR YOU NEED TO GIVE ME MORE MONNNNNNEEEEEY.
Dh just smiled and said...are the kids ready?
Beaver gave out a hmmmfff...and got the kids.
DH then received a summons for court 3 weeks later...the reason, DH had a substantial increase in income as evidence that he had a NEW LUXURY CAR. Smh...I read the complaint...that DH must have had an increase in income or was hiding income since he had purchased a brand new MERCEDES.
That court case ended quick when DH submitted that the mercedes was a 5 year old mercedes and that he in no way had an income increase as evidence of his pay stub and bank statements. Beaver even went so far to claim DH must have had an offshore hidden account. LOL>.....good lord don't I wish.
But boy howdy did he know that car got under her skin. He drove that car another 5 years..till it just started to fall apart. It was a really NICE car. It could turn on a dime....and fast as H3ll. I called it the ticket magnet since you could be doing 85+ and never feel it.
Funny part of all this..his next car was a brand new Honda Civic...loaded. LOL DD now drives that Civic. He loved the Mercedes but the maintance costs of those are HIGH. The civic's maintance costs were much lower.
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Gotta love it! When we got
Gotta love it! When we got custody of Spawn I used to have to cram three kids into the back of my compact car. It was not fun especially since two were still in car seats.
So DH and I bought a used SUV and of course Spawn had to brag to Meth Mouth about it. DH got his court summons shortly after because Meth Mouth was going to get custody back. Well they went to court and she didn't get anything since she was in the middle of yet another drug bust and facing more jail time. But her reason for wanting custody back was because we had purchased a new vehicle and Spawn was afraid of it. Side note to this story, Meth Mouth had just purchased a brand new SUV not long before we got our used vehicle. But you know if we had money to buy a used car, then we had money to fund Meth Mouth's drug habit.
Yep..newer car = mo money....
Beaver also had a seizure when I..not DH...but I bought a brand new Honda van. We got a court summons not too long after she realized I had a new van. Beaver still cannot grasp the concept..I HAVE MY OWN MONEY. In fact, at the time I was making more than DH. Beaver wanted DH to continue to fund her couch lounging and shopping habit.
Scared of an SUV...lol...yea that is rich. smh...the stories these b*tches dream up.
Exactly Meth Mouth never
Exactly Meth Mouth never could understand that DH and my money was not meant for her. Spawn asked me one time when I was still a SAHM why I couldn't just go get a job to help pay for her mom's CS. After my initial shock wore off I asked Spawn why couldn't Meth Mouth get a job since she no longer had any kids to take care of? I also told her that contrary to what Meth Mouth believed she could not get my money because I was not obligated to financially support Spawn. Now mind you at this point in time we had custody so there was no CS going to Meth Mouth, but we never got CS from Meth Mouth. It just clarified for me how twisted and effed up both Spawn and Meth Mouth were in their way of thinking that DH had to pay for everything.
My mom and BM did this bait and switch
My mom got a new car and folded the cost into their mortgage so when they divorced my dad ended up eating the cost as part of the house.
BM bought a car while DH was on a business trip. Lo and behold it was for him because she didn't think the car he had was safe enough for him to drive the kids around once they divorced.
aww well wasn't she
nice...NOT
All BM seem to be the same..
Years ago, DAH was out of work for 4 months on a medical issue. Two weeks into the 4 months, DAH bought a $10 raffle ticket for a brand new 1990 GMC 4x4, by pure dumb luck, he won the truck. DAH went to pick up SD and BM flipped her shit, within a week he was service with more CS papers. Prior to this DAH was paying over $750 a month, we had planned on paying the CS out of his saving, while he was off work.
Day of court was a absolutely blast, DAH brought all his paperwork for being out on a medical leave and his income from temporary disability. CS was dropped to $149 per month, until DAH got his doctor release to go back to work, once he was back to work the CS would still be $750, no increase for BM. I thought the cow was going to attack DAH right there in the court room.
Every other week DAH took sheer delight in driving that new truck to the pickup location for SD. You could see how furious BM was at each pickup and drop off.
love, Love LOVE this!!!
love, Love LOVE this!!!
Car Fun(d)
My husband is a mechanic by trade. A BMW tech, to be specific. And guess what kind of car Toxic Troll HAD to have when her and her boy-toy at the time, Tweedle Dum, went car shopping? YUP. She got herself a convertble BMW z-something.
And as part of their unofficial "deal" for low alimony and no child support, he has to work on it and only charge her for parts (which he marks up anyway, lol).
Well 2 years into our marrriage and 2 years of child support (yeah not even 2 weeks after we married she filed for child support), I told him, WTF, you do not need to work on that b!tches car...he mentioned something to Toxic Troll, about him working on her car "not being good for his marriage" and she went off on him.
Told him he was weak, pathetic and p-whipped. Then texted saying she was going to up her spousal support and that her lawyer told her that she could get more for each kid back during divorce, and since its only 347 right now, she will take him to court if he doesnt want to work on her freaking car anymore.
WELL, that was his last month paying spousal (back in March), but I could see how MAYBE they might take the child support up from 347 to 500, however NOW his income has gone down, spousal is over, so income-wise no real change. So I dont think she could actually get more if the judge back then decided on xxx amount.
Acutally shes looking at her big payday sometime over her 4-year old head injury. And she hasnt asked him for help with her car lately...
Boundaries b!tch, boundaries...
Those unofficial deals never ever work
out for the DH. Not ever....Dh found that out the hard way...when they "unoffically" agreed that his part of the $1200 in cs he was paying was $600 in alimony. Yep....you guessed it...she filed 60 days later and got $1200 in CS since that was what DH was paying AND $600 in alimony for three years...so $1800. Never again would DH agree to anything "unofficially"
I bought DH a really nice
I bought DH a really nice used truck because it was being sold for super cheap. BM did the whole his money should be my money tantrum in court and yelled out "but he's got a Dooooooodge!!!!!!!!!!".
BM hasn't done this with cars
BM hasn't done this with cars. BUT, I'm sure when she sees the car I'm going to get a comment will be made. Who knows when she will see the skids. Probably SS15s birthday in October.
BM does however do this with vacations. When SO told her about the cruise we were going to take this year (we took one last year) her response was "did you guys hit the lottery?!?" No we save to have nice vacations every year and memories for your kids to have dumb dumb. *eye roll* lol