This next story, basically explains itself… Never lose sight of your priorities…
While I was taking a casual stroll around the neighbourhood I live in a few weeks ago, I came across a car with rims on it the size of boulders..
I immediately thought to myself,
“Who would want to do that to such a nice looking car?”
“Hell, who would want to do that to a car period.”
The rims on this thing are so big that the wheels no longer fit into the wheel allotments.
“Hell, who would want to do that to a car period.”
The rims on this thing are so big that the wheels no longer fit into the wheel allotments.
Yes laugh, I have no idea about the specific car terms but you know what I’m talking about and if I have lost you, refer to the picture of this abomination.
Now understandably this car belongs to…you guessed it a male.
But the thing I find most mind boggling is not the car itself...rims and all... it’s the fact that this man has un-doubtably spent a few salaries on some “jewellery” for his car.
But the thing I find most mind boggling is not the car itself...rims and all... it’s the fact that this man has un-doubtably spent a few salaries on some “jewellery” for his car.
“A good set of rims (22’s and up) can start out at $5000 a pair” as stated by Rims and Things, yellow pages.
So I did the math: There are 4 wheels on a car, so that’s 2 pairs…. $5000 a pair…= WHAT $10000.
$10000 to make your car look like what, exactly?? Like an alien, an alien on roller-skates...
And you’re gonna pull up to an apartment complex??
Don’t get me wrong, the apartment complex is nice, but if you’re willing to spend $10000 on some rims you would think you would have the money to be living in a house, or at least have invested your money firstly in that of purchasing a house…
Can you say priorities?
The first time I saw this car, I was hoping maybe it was just somebody here to visit a friend, but nope…. Weeks later, it’s still parked, still here, still ugly and still ghetto fabulous.
I wondered why men felt the need to do this to their cars; well I came up with 2 things.
1- There overcompensating for something, making up in the big department in other places.. (sorry fellas)
2- With all the pressure now that the media..(Yes it’s the media again.) has put on these young men to be fly and flashy like Jay Z, Kanye West and any other rich, fly and famous baller out there.
They think that they need to be all “blinged up” for a woman to look there way, that or they want us to think they have got it like that.
The truth is, you don’t have the kind of money to waste on a set of rims, if your pulling into an apartment complex, I don’t care how nice the apartment is, this aint a sky rise, we aint downtown and this aint Hollywood.
It’s hard to keep up in America with all the hype circulating around “money” and “whose got what”
2- With all the pressure now that the media..(Yes it’s the media again.) has put on these young men to be fly and flashy like Jay Z, Kanye West and any other rich, fly and famous baller out there.
They think that they need to be all “blinged up” for a woman to look there way, that or they want us to think they have got it like that.
The truth is, you don’t have the kind of money to waste on a set of rims, if your pulling into an apartment complex, I don’t care how nice the apartment is, this aint a sky rise, we aint downtown and this aint Hollywood.
It’s hard to keep up in America with all the hype circulating around “money” and “whose got what”
It’s just plain hard to keep up.
So maybe just maybe this is a small time man’s way of at least trying to keep up, trying to stay in the game, whether he pulls into an apartment complex or a garden shed, at least when he cruises the strip on a Friday night he can pretend he’s the baller he so badly wants to be.
*This is my own account for why men do this, it in no way describes the person who actually owns the car, they only serve as subject matter for my writing this, and in no way are related to the story i tell.*
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