About six months ago, my parents were forcing me to go out every single day to look for a job. I wasn't doing very good health-wise and was developing borderline narcolepsy. I was literally having to pull over while driving to take naps. This was a known issue. Then, I was far too sleepy to look for a job one day and decided to drive home. I got into a car crash, totaling my car and scratching the back bumper of the car I hit. Unbeknown to me, I had no car insurance. My parents were on vacation and the bills for my car insurance had not reached them. Being jobless, I could not pay said bills myself. My insurance had lapsed.

Damage: One totaled car. Points on my license and an accident, preventing me from getting any job involving driving for several years. 8000 dollars in debt to repair the car of the person I hit. It was a scratch. I have fucking pictures. But it was a new car and I had no insurance company to fight on my behalf.

Later, I received a job offer, the first reply I had gotten in a number of months. I had applied online.

Then, jobless, carless, I needed a new car to get a job. I found three cars within a week on craigslist for under 1000 dollars. My parents refused to allow me to buy them. They refused to drive me to the cars to allow me to test them. My mother instead kidnapped me under false pretenses and forced me to go to used car lots. It took four hours before I broke down and agreed to buy a car for 5000 dollars. A 2001 Mitsubishi Mirage, I believe? I had found the same car, same year, for 800. They had refused to allow me to buy it because they had concerns about the reliability of a car that went so cheap. Without allowing me to check it out, remember.

The 5000 dollar piece of shit broke down within three months. Engine died.

Now, I am moving out of my home. My very large, very comfortable home. I am moving in with two old well known friends. I had proposed that they move in with me, but my parents refused. They were concerned that we would make a mess. Instead, this home shall be vacant for the winter. When I was proposing that I stay the winter alone in this house they were asking 600 dollars a month in rent to cover utilities. I could not afford it as I only make roughly 800 a month. Now I am moving in with my friends in the home they are renting. Rent and utilities will be, for me, roughly 800 a month. My parents have graciously decided to loan me a few hundred each month for food and such.

For the next three months- the amount of time my house will remain vacant- the three of us shall be paying an extra 1800 dollars to a stranger.