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finance daily the tale of bad car bill by mr.500 of 1500 Days.com.

One of my first real jobs in the world was working as a computer programmer at the fancy

headquarters of a big U.S. retailer in the late 90s. I was an employee, but I worked with a team

of consultants that the company had hired to help with the Y2K code remediation.

These consultants, with their old skills, were now tripling and quadrupling their pay as the demand to fix the old systems skyrocketed.

The consultants were a fascinating bunch to watch. They had no

trouble finding ways to blow all of their new wealth very quickly. They had fancy clothes and shiny new

SUVs or sports cars. They would go to restaurants for lunch every day and then go out to expensive clubs after work.

I had never seen people spend money like this.

At the time, I thought, wow, these guys are rich.

I was naive, just out of school and grew up in a lower middle class neighborhood.

I was the first one in my family to graduate from

college, so had never been around people like this. Later on, the book The Millionaire Next Door,

opened my eyes to the reality of the situation. These people were not rich and never would be.

I was just witnessing extreme cases of lifestyle inflation. However,

there was one consultant who was an exception to the big spenders, and his name was Bad Car Bill.

Bad Car Bill was different. He was given the moniker because he drove a hideous clunker.

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