Rediscovering yourself.

Lando Griffin

So last year I was chatting a neighbour who worked in the building trade going on about the daily struggle of bills etc and struggling with the mortgage . He was out of employment since 2008. About 6 months ago he gained employment in his trade and I was delighted only to see him pull up in a 30000 brand new car last week. Isn't it fantastic to see someone who was at their wits end only less than a year rediscover themselves. Have we turned the corner?

CardBordWindow

Oh! There I am!

Wacker The Attacker

I have two degrees and cant get work.

Do you think I'm going to do a third one?

marshbaboon

Your neighbour sounds like a dumbass, no offence.

jessiejam

He obviously didn't learn anything being out of work.. going out buying a brand new car...:rolleyes:

El Guapo!

Lando Griffin wrote: »

I was delighted only to see him pull up in a 30000 brand new car last week. Isn't it fantastic to see someone who was at their wits end only less than a year rediscover themselves. Have we turned the corner?

So he was out of work for four years, finally gets some work, but hasn't learned a thing so he goes out and buys a brand new car for €30k????

Sounds like an idiot to me.
Or perhaps this never happened? Come on OP, tell the truth, you made this up didn't you?

God...

Obviously didn't learn much...

nbar12

I suspect he's a drug dealer

Knex*

Six months ago he couldn't get work and now he's splashing €30,000 on a new car?

Thirty fecking grand, a years wages and he spunks it on a car after half a years work?

If that's rediscovering yourself I hope I never do tbh. Fucking baffling.

marshbaboon

nbar12 wrote: »

I suspect he's a drug dealer

Or has a gambling addiction :pac:

crazy cabbage

Lando Griffin wrote: »

So last year I was chatting a neighbour who worked in the building trade going on about the daily struggle of bills etc and struggling with the mortgage . He was out of employment since 2008. About 6 months ago he gained employment in his trade and I was delighted only to see him pull up in a 30000 brand new car last week. Isn't it fantastic to see someone who was at their wits end only less than a year rediscover themselves. Have we turned the corner?

So rediscovering yourself means buying really expensive stuff. I had pictures of people medatating in the wilderness with a beautiful back drop with mountains behind you and the gently tumble of waterfall audibal in the distance.

Instead this lad rediscoverd himself by buying a really expensive car.

Damn i hate captilism at times

autumnbelle

Unless its a company car he's a fool who has not learned how screwed the economy still is

nbar12

marshbaboon wrote: »

Or has a gambling addiction :pac:

touché

marshbaboon

BRB going to rediscover myself by getting into some negative equity.

Lando Griffin

Dean09 wrote: »

Lando Griffin wrote: »

I was delighted only to see him pull up in a 30000 brand new car last week. Isn't it fantastic to see someone who was at their wits end only less than a year rediscover themselves. Have we turned the corner?

So he was out of work for four years, finally gets some work, but hasn't learned a thing so he goes out and buys a brand new car for €30k????

Sounds like an idiot to me.
Or perhaps this never happened? Come on OP, tell the truth, you made this up didn't you?

It has happened. A lovely shiney motor and he parks it facing the street in his drive and not towards the house like he used to with the banger he had when times were tough.

jessiejam

That 30k would have probably paid his mortgage for 2 years if he ever found himself out of work again.. some people are just thick.

If i was his wife he would have rediscovered single life all over again..

Grayson

If he's still doing the same work, how is it linked to discovering himself. It's not like he's a cop who's discovered he's a flower arranger (edit: That's the other way around)

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Calibos

The HSE have obviously been doing free sarcasm bypasses recently going on the previous few posters. :rolleyes: ....or am I giving the OP too much credit??

gigawatt2007

He'll be broke again by Xmas at that rate.

nbar12

jessiejam wrote: »

That 30k would have probably paid his mortgage for 2 years if he ever found himself out of work again.. some people are just thick.

If i was his wife he would have rediscovered single life all over again..

Luckily for him, you are not his wife

mickrock

Buying that car was a very zen thing to do.

whatdoicare

Maybe he stole it.....maybe his "job" is all a lie and he's actually lost the plot. He's probably walking around his sitting room in a wig and high heels pretending to be his wife right now.

Ficheall

Did you check down the back of the couch?

Mr Benevolent

Drug dealer alert. Only a moron buys a brand new car after just getting a new job - the bank wouldn't agree to it, for one.

JohnMarston

Is your neighbours name Walter?

jester77

For all we know he might have been putting away 500 a week of his social welfare money and now that he has employment he has decided to treat himself to a car so that he can commute to/from work.

Fair play to the tiger!

fluke

Lando Griffin wrote: »

So last year I was chatting a neighbour who worked in the building trade going on about the daily struggle of bills etc and struggling with the mortgage . He was out of employment since 2008. About 6 months ago he gained employment in his trade and I was delighted only to see him pull up in a 30000 brand new car last week. Isn't it fantastic to see someone who was at their wits end only less than a year rediscover themselves. Have we turned the corner?

Sure...isn't he a great lad!!

Not exactly what I expected when I began reading this thread. Now if you don't mind I'm off to read some Kerouac...

Muckit

Wacker The Attacker wrote: »

I have two degrees and cant get work.

Do you think I'm going to do a third one?

Yes?

rgmmg

I am happy for him.

It's a very Irish thing to know the price of the car! Paraphrasing: "It used to face into the house when it was a banger, but the new one faces out onto the road." I bet the neighbourhood watch scheme is great there :pac:

Iwasfrozen

Lando Griffin wrote: »

It has happened. A lovely shiney motor and he parks it facing the street in his drive and not towards the house like he used to with the banger he had when times were tough.

ah i get it now, op is the builder.

Duggy747

Thread title give me an image of some rich git travelling to India for a few months and then coming back telling everyone how he left busy and materialistic Ireland for some soul-searching.

Then hops into his €30,000 car......

fluke

Duggy747 wrote: »

Thread title give me an image of some rich git travelling to India for a few months and then coming back telling everyone how he left busy and materialistic Ireland for some soul-searching.

Then hops into his €30,000 car......

Kinda sounds like Batman Begins...

maybe the OP's neighbour is Batman

gara

It's like the Irish version of "The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari" -"Paddy buys a Peugeot"

pragmatic1

I rediscover myself at least once a day.

Some Yoke

Taking too much interest in the self dicovery of neighbours could land ya in hot water OP

BillyMitchel

What lots of folks do these days is lease cars and pass it off as their own. Maybe he came into money, doubt he got a car loan for that much though.

OP what kind of car is it? Land Rover Discovery by any chance?

Abi

jessiejam wrote: »

That 30k would have probably paid his mortgage for 2 years if he ever found himself out of work again.. some people are just thick.

If i was his wife he would have rediscovered single life all over again..

Was thinking the same thing.

pathtohome

People in this country are completely oblivious to the fact that true happiness can never come from materialism.

Gummy Panda

Duggy747 wrote: »

Thread title give me an image of some rich git travelling to India for a few months and then coming back telling everyone how he left busy and materialistic Ireland for some soul-searching.

Then hops into his €30,000 car......

I thought it was going to be about ladies sitting at a mirror talking to their fanny.

Lando Griffin

Gummy Panda wrote: »

Duggy747 wrote: »

Thread title give me an image of some rich git travelling to India for a few months and then coming back telling everyone how he left busy and materialistic Ireland for some soul-searching.

Then hops into his €30,000 car......

I thought it was going to be about ladies sitting at a mirror talking to their fanny.

Disgusting; absolutely disgusting.

Jesus Shaves

Fair play to him for turning his fortunes around

And a big well done to the people above begrudging him, if he was on the dole ye'd be calling him a scrounger:rolleyes:

crazy cabbage

Jesus Shaves wrote: »

Fair play to him for turning his fortunes around

And a big well done to the people above begrudging him, if he was on the dole ye'd be calling him a scrounger:rolleyes:

Fair play to the lad. However i was critising the op and his use of the word 'rediscover'. The op's titled the tread rediscoveing yourself. Getting a job which is very sililar and in the same field as you used to be in and then buying a car is not rediscovering yourself.

partyatmygaff

What's the big deal?

He got a job, worked for half a year and bought a new car (That may be leased or 'nearly new' and not actually €30k). Hardly strange, controversial or stupid.

Gummy Panda

Lando Griffin wrote: »

Disgusting; absolutely disgusting.

Ah you play for the other side...

Jesus Shaves

crazy cabbage wrote: »

Fair play to the lad. However i was critising the op and his use of the word 'rediscover'. The op's titled the tread rediscoveing yourself. Getting a job which is very sililar and in the same field as you used to be in and then buying a car is not rediscovering yourself.

Sorry didn't mean just you, it was aimed at the whole begrudging culture going on in general

dd972

Lando Griffin wrote: »

So last year I was chatting a neighbour who worked in the building trade going on about the daily struggle of bills etc and struggling with the mortgage . He was out of employment since 2008. About 6 months ago he gained employment in his trade and I was delighted only to see him pull up in a 30000 brand new car last week. Isn't it fantastic to see someone who was at their wits end only less than a year rediscover themselves. Have we turned the corner?

No

Latchy

Lando Griffin wrote: »

So last year I was chatting a neighbour who worked in the building trade going on about the daily struggle of bills etc and struggling with the mortgage . He was out of employment since 2008. About 6 months ago he gained employment in his trade and I was delighted only to see him pull up in a 30000 brand new car last week. Isn't it fantastic to see someone who was at their wits end only less than a year rediscover themselves. Have we turned the corner?

There's something about this thread by that's so Fr Teddish ...

bnt

Re-discover myself? I still haven't quite recovered from the initial discovery, I'm in no hurry to go through that experience again. :cool:

latte2010

How the hell did he rediscover himself by buying a new car?? Maybe he won money or was left money in a will or something like that and decided to treat himself. One man buying a new car is hardly a ****ing sign of of us "turning a corner".

Latchy

The reality .

He drove down the OP's street ,stalled outside his his neighbors house , honked the horn ,gave the two fingers sign to all and sundry then drove off into the night ...