Number 5: Commuting...not so easy

I thought, I'll just commute into the city, it'll be fine. Issue 1, distance from grandma's house to nearest train station, about 20-30 minutes. Bigger issue 2, IT'S FRICKIN EXPENSIVE TO TAKE THE TRAIN EVERYDAY! Over the summer I've been working at an Old Navy...which I hate. I just picked it because it was there, and easy for the summer, but I hate the monotony. I hate that there's no sense of accomplishment, you fold a table of shirts and 2 minutes later it's destroyed again. But most of all, I HATE dealing with customers. I'm an ivy league honors graduate and I feel like I'm working sooo beneath myself. That sounds horrible, I know, and I'm really not as big of a pretentious prick as I may seem right now, but I have big dreams. I want to do something challenging and something I feel is worthwhile. I'd rather have a desk job and do data entry then bug people about opening Old Navy Cards. I reeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaally don't care about Old Navy Cards.

Sorry, tangent. Anyway, dispite my hate for the job, I'm going to transfer to another Old Navy until I get a "real" job in the city...which needs to happen soon because whoops, health insurance ends on September 1st. I can just look into transfering to the ON 12 minutes away from my grandmother's house and just go into the city twice a week for classes, but eventually I AM going to get a job...and then it's going to be crazy-expensive.

We were looking into possible leasing cars because either way I need to get to some job somewhere and some station somewhere but that also doesn't seem very economical. So we're now looking into buying a used car (and by "we" I mean me and my mom). Today (yes, finally in the present) we spent the entire day in a Chevy dealership. We found a great 2006 Aveo with 44,000 miles and 34 highway MPG for a great price. My mom also doesn't have fantastic credit and most everything is in my dad's name anyway so we'd need just a signature, not any money, just a signature to seal the deal. He complained but was coming to the dealership...until he found out which dealership it was. Apparently 20 years and 2 owners ago he brought a car he bought back to the dealership to replace a dead engine. His warranty was up and they couldn't do it. He felt swindled, developed a grudge and has hated this dealership ever since. He refused to come in. Now we're back to square one.