My car broke down yesterday.
Why does this make me happy? Because it wasn't entirely my fault. I neglected maintaining my vehicle on purpose to test my sister (who keeps on recklessly stealing it from me for her own personal purposes) on her loyalty in using it. Now, I have this bizarre karma with my car that makes me invulnerable to it breaking down on me. Proof of concept, as it turns out, yesterday I drove my car to work with my sister as passenger (and as I was driving it, it was driving like new; I think my car is like Gurren Lagaan, and is powered by my spirit), but then it was her turn to take it to where she usually goes. It breaks down at her destination (as I figured it would; and of course, at a location not where she promised she was heading to when she told me; and it was never her intention to head to where she told me), and considering one of my other sisters had to fetch the car for me so it can get repaired, basically I got all the confirmation and evidence I need to start setting up some serious limits to using my car. For instance, charging her per-use without my consent. Of course, I'll give an ultimatum, and track her usage via invoice.
The damage done was a tire blow out, but considering how much my sister (the one who keeps taking the car) nags me to upkeep it, she's one to talk. The interior of my car is all her mess and the radio doesn't work properly (I also neglected to replace that to be really annoying as well.); the only thing she really does is refuel the car and the regular oil change 1000 miles overdue (I kept track), and there's far more damage done to the car than just that (the tires have been so overdue on a rotation, the mechanic working on it cut their hand on the recoil from the wires). Like I said, I've been holding back just to see how much she really "owns" my car. I mean, it's under my name, my insurance, and everything; but she claims to take care of it the most. Who's the one who keeps track of the odometer, the fluids, and the condition of the tires and advises in the first place before they start complaining and it breaks down for the n-th time? If you're so responsible, then prove it. No money out of my wallet.
If it's MY car, it's MINE; but if you so insistently take it, keep and hide my keys and make ME need to ask for permission to use MY car to get to WORK (seeing as she's unemployed too), then it's YOURS. YOU keep it working.
The breakdown now puts all the cards in my hand and now I have complete dominion over my vehicle again (exactly as planned). She wants to go out, she'll have to negotiate her way out like I, and everyone else, had to; regarding the use of my vehicle. And have fun; my mom is not comfortable in lending her car to anyone, my younger sister just got herself a new car (thanks to my brother) so she won't be letting that go; and my car is crap, and I like it that way (discourages it getting robbed), and also I now have my claim of ownership at full again; and I will charge a minimum of $2.50 per willing use, and $5 bucks minimum for a lack of consent (all this excludes maintainence fees: gas, oil, mechanical parts maintainence). And considering I'm charging her to use my car, and she won't be able to afford it, she'll need to bum a ride off someone like I always had to for the past half-year. Payback's a bitch huh?
I'm happy because unofficially (like before when it's ownership shifted) my car is mine again, and I have the entire family backing me up on it. And furthermore, they actually support my charging method, seeing as my sister lacks a job. That ought to motivate her to find some work to get off her lazy ass. And before anyone accuses me of being non-confrontational and a coward myself; I knew all this would fall apart like this. Seeing as much as she denies it, the only way she actually learns is through the hard way. I let consequences naturally handle things, and reject responsibility for random crap happening, or someone else screwing something up; or so to put it "I did my part; if anything else goes wrong, it's your own damn fault".
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