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An impressionable apprentice from our town’s French Quarter has been successfully talked out of financing an off-white 2010 Landcruiser Prado this week after explaining the plan to his boss.
After having it all spelled out to him by blokes who’ve made similar mistakes in the past, third-year chippy Daley Adavale revealed his stupidity and dunderheadedness became clear to him.
“My boss Mark said he financed a Hilux when he was my age and it took him years to pay off. By the end of it, he’d bought one-and-a-half Hiluxes when if he’d just driven a shitbox and saved the money, he only would’ve bought one. You know what I’m saying?” Adavale told our reporter.
“He told me to keep driving my Nan’s old Corolla, even if it’s a piece of shit. That it’s better to save the money, plus, he said if I stay on with him, he’ll sort me a work ute that we can bullshit the Fringe Benefits Tax on so I can just drive it whenever. Pretty tempting but I reckon I’ll just get qualified and fuck off to the Sunshine Coast like every other hammer swinging window licker who has any brains about them.”
On the topic of brains, Adavale said that while he does have his heart set on driving a Prado one day, it won’t be any time soon.
“If I had the money, plus some serious brain damage, I would totally buy a 2010 Prado with fucked paint and 250 on the clock for $40k,” he laughed.
“If it was owned by a red P-plater, even better. Also, if that young idiot lived near the beach and drove the cunnavathing [sic] up and down dunes, got the thing bogged and took it through salt water – and didn’t wash it once – I’d pay a massive premium for that,”
“Nah, I’m glad Mark and the boys talked me out of it. I had the blokes at Cash Train ready to transfer me the dosh that day.”
More to come.
