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The Jesse Mecham Show

242 - But It's MY Car

The Jesse Mecham Show

YNAB

Kids & Family, Education

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2016

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

My irrational reaction to not having my own car for 24 hours. What are yours?

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0:00.0

Hello, whinabers my name is Jesse Meekham and this is podcast number 239 for Wineb.

0:14.8

Where we teach you four rules to help you stop living paycheck to paycheck,

0:18.0

get out of debt and save more money.

0:21.0

Little interesting experience, just two minutes. I don't know exactly what I want to learn from this, but it struck me so I wanted to share.

0:28.0

I had to take my car in to those tire pressure gauges.

0:33.2

They're never right and mine was wrong.

0:34.9

It was saying there was a problem.

0:35.8

There wasn't.

0:36.7

So took the car in and they gave me a loner car.

0:40.1

And those sneaky devils gave me this car that's like a light year ahead of mine all

0:46.7

souped up sound system bigger engine faster like I took it from zero to 60, probably 50 times for no good reason except just to feel it.

0:57.0

And took it around tight corners and really just enjoyed the heck out of it.

1:01.0

It was a different color, different interior, it was like all

1:04.5

these upgrades, and they're sneaky. Because the next time I buy a car I'm going to go there

1:08.8

and say, well gosh, remember that experience. But this was the interesting thing. I was kind of missing my car, you know,

1:17.0

mine's white, different interior, and pretty much the same exact car, same model, except mine's a little lighter on the

1:26.3

accelerator. But despite the fact that mine was a step down, I missed it. I missed my car and it struck me, and it's only been 24 hours, it

1:38.4

struck me that I had this kind of affinity for this object.

1:44.0

I wonder now just what that might mean for thinking through your finances and what you're attached to not

1:54.8

rationally because that response did not feel rational to me a car like you get from

1:59.4

A to B come on you know same exact different color, a little more upgrades, but still, it

2:06.2

is this exact same experience, essentially, and I'm missing mine, you know, like it's a child or something. That was strange. So I have this

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