What are private school kids good for?

[opebo]

Practically speaking, they are not good for anything.  By that I mean useless to me.

[opebo]

Yea, that's what I was thinking. I'm glad you don't own that particular one, what a mess.
anyways, like I said, it would look much better if it had 4 doors, I'm not really simpathetic to carrs with a rear like that. You either have a stationw agon or a sedan, not both.
And I know, my dad's former taxi was an opel vectra like that.

Your dad was a taxi driver?  Wow, sounds poor.  I drove a taxi during grad school.  I like big Citroens.. forget the model names.

[opebo]

Yea, that's what I was thinking. I'm glad you don't own that particular one, what a mess.
anyways, like I said, it would look much better if it had 4 doors, I'm not really simpathetic to carrs with a rear like that. You either have a stationw agon or a sedan, not both.
And I know, my dad's former taxi was an opel vectra like that.

Your dad was a taxi driver?  Wow, sounds poor.  I drove a taxi during grad school.  I like big Citroens.. forget the model names.

Not was, is. Just the vehicle is now a mercedes C.
But that's his own business, in fact, most taxis in Lisbon are one car companies. He actually has a hired driver and they work in turns.

Interesting.  What is the average income from something like that?  In America taxi drivers are impoverished starvlings.

[opebo]

Yea, that's what I was thinking. I'm glad you don't own that particular one, what a mess.
anyways, like I said, it would look much better if it had 4 doors, I'm not really simpathetic to carrs with a rear like that. You either have a stationw agon or a sedan, not both.
And I know, my dad's former taxi was an opel vectra like that.

Your dad was a taxi driver?  Wow, sounds poor.  I drove a taxi during grad school.  I like big Citroens.. forget the model names.

Not was, is. Just the vehicle is now a mercedes C.
But that's his own business, in fact, most taxis in Lisbon are one car companies. He actually has a hired driver and they work in turns.

Interesting.  What is the average income from something like that?  In America taxi drivers are impoverished starvlings.

well, I can't really say average, and I can't even say our own. But I suppose it goes around 20000/25000€ a year(consider the cost of living is much lower here).

Wow, the cost of living lower in a Euro country than in the US?  Portugal must be a pretty cool place. 

I think a taxi driver here makes maybe $20,000/year - starvation wages.

[opebo]

I think a taxi driver here makes maybe $20,000/year - starvation wages.

While $20,000 is not rich, it's not starvation wages either.

Are you joking?  That is, what, $400/week?  Well I suppose it is enough to be able to eat, so technically you are correct.  I should've said meager, trapped in the under-class wages.  Certainly the kind of wages where if you get sick for a couple of weeks, you're homeless.

[opebo]

Practically speaking, they are not good for anything.  By that I mean useless to me.

I'd love to find out who you really are, opebo. I am shocked that such a loser exists on this planet.

The planet is populated mostly by losers, Keyestone Phil.

[opebo]

I went to a private Catholic school.  My dad was a mailman, my mom a telephone operator and we rented our apartment.  My parents sacrificed things for themselves so they could send us to better schools that provided a value system.  This poll is designed on a bad Aaron Spelling stereotype.

No, just a different type of school.  This type definitely exists, just as your typical parochial school for middle-class whites who want to avoid the blacks without moving to the suburbs.

[opebo]

The exclusive type schools desribed in this polls are usually reserved for rich liberals and corporate types in Manhatten and they are not religious in nature. 

Very true!  And they are the first step on the road to upper-middle to upper-class privaledge in our heirarchical society.

[opebo]

The exclusive type schools desribed in this polls are usually reserved for rich liberals and corporate types in Manhatten and they are not religious in nature. 

Very true!  And they are the first step on the road to upper-middle to upper-class privaledge in our heirarchical society.

I'm curious:  Where did you go to High School?  Did you slum it with the proles?

I grew up on the exurban fringes, and decent private schools were fairly far away.  I was given the option of the Catholic high school (had attended parochial school for a few years prior to that), but opted for the public one out of disgust with the religious. 

This public high school was of fine quality, but of course did contain many terribly poor youths.  I remember being fairly unaware of such things untill I turned 16, and noticed that while I recieved a new automobile, many others had very old and shabby ones, and a few none at all!  Later I figured out that new cars were a silly waste, but at the time it was an eye opener.

[opebo]

I went to private school, and to this day I am conflicted about it. I realize that I was insulated from quite a bit to which I should have been exposed, but the furtive sexual encounters and drunken revelry certainly gave me about as fun of a childhood as any for which anyone could have hoped.

That sounds like great fun!  Did any of the teachers participate?