It's beginning to look like I may have to trade in my little runabout for a big lumbering full-size station wagon so that my brother can have a car to cart his stuff around in.
You see, I only really use my car to get to uni, and as my course ends in December, It won't be getting much use over the holidays besides the occasional run around in the country. It's a similar story during the year, and will probably also be the same for the second year of the course next year. I'm still on P-plates, a Provisional License where we are not allowed to have any alcohol at all in the system, which means when I go out and have a drink I always have to leave my car at home and rely on taxis / friends on full licenses etc. This means that there's no reason why not my brother and I couldn't share the one car, seeing as we both still live at home and work / study in town. There's no feasible way we could fit three cars at our place if my brother were to get the wagon he needs to transport all his music equipment. That is unless we move somewhere that has at least a double garage (no room to put one in here unless you knock part of the house down). His gear all fits in my car easily enough, but there's a problem - he can't drive stick, I'm the only person in my immediately family who can. :?
So either we get a wagon, or my brother learns to drive a manual, but he's so lazy with things like that, I just can't see it happening.
Both of my parents are putting pressure on me to do this, but I have to keep saying, that whenever I get a full-time job that requires my own transport, how will I get there if my brother keeps needing the wagon. It just won't work. It's not helped by the fact that my mum's old Peugeot is really just about on it's last legs and isn't really reliable as a back up vehicle, and it's a similar story for my father's car - which is located on the other side of town anyway and not always convenient to borrow.
I hate this shit.
