She also got a very reliable car. That scion will serve her many purposes for some time. For her financial situation it will be perfect as gas milage is very low and it takes regular gas. The one she has is standard and does not have lots of gadgets to break down. That man is an absolute angle.

...she is acute angle.

He's a white father of 4, she's a black nursing student.

a friend of a friend knew a student who needed a car. Mine ran fine but needed some work and her father is a car mechanic so it was perfect.

As I said, there are lots of good, unsung heros. We just don't hear about them all that often because a) they don't tend to toot their own horn and b) bad news sells better than good news.

I read one today. An autistic boy (looked to be somewhere around 12-13) called 911 because he couldn't find his teddy bear. Autistic boy was white. Officer who responded was black. Responding officer helped the boy find his Teddy Bear, calmed him down, and left with a big grin on his face.

The few bad ones stand in the limelight as the good ones take the background. I cheer for this officer and others like him.

my old car, a 2004 Honda Civic, a perfectly good if somewhat battered car that someone else could have used. I got very little on the trade in.

It's too late now, but someday, a decade or so in the future, when I'm ready to trade in my current car I might want to try to find some deserving person like this to give it to.

to my nephew when he graduates from grad school. He's driving it now to get back and forth to school and back. It's the least I can do for him.

As John Oliver discussed on Last Week Tonight about six years ago: "When you are poor, everything is more expensive"