While the wife has a junked car...
...the husband has a brand-new, sports car.
The funny thing is that i know some couples like this one.
That's always been what held the most weight for me with this story. The mom is in a Pinto, the dad is in the new car. She's trapped in a car with not even the luxury of of water to drink while he's dining on lobster with his clients/boss.
shareSo what. He was the one making the money, providing for the family and being the good father and husband. He needed a reliable vehicle to get to and from work. He wasn't going to take an almost dead Pinto on a business trip (important one at that).
Meanwhile, the wife is having an affair. So, who is really entitled to a sports car?
That really stuck in my craw too. They live in this beautiful mansion, husband zips around in his brand, new sports car, feasting on lobster and chateaubriand, while the wife is stuck in a beater without A/C. And, don't give me that nonsense of how she cheated on him and what not. She was probably driven to cheat by a neglectful and cheapskate husband.
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I was kind of chewing on this one, too.
Say, for instance, if in both book and movie, if the husband (played by Daniel Hugh Kelly) was initially getting some action on the side (say with some hotsie-totsie secretary), then I could kind of understand her cheating. But STILL, why would you cheat on that sexy, hunk of a husband?!
Not that I approve of cheating, though. Still not right.
Depends how you look at it. That could have been a late model Pinto. Ford made them up until 1980, only to be replaced by another piece of crap: Escort.
Pinto was Ford's answer to building a small 4 cylinder car with decent gas milage. It was a piece of crap from the start. While it was a decent family truckster at the time, it was a piece of crap nevertheless. Looking at her driving habits, it probably didn't have that many miles on it. Just a crap car with low miles.
"I'm a vehemently anti-nuclear, paranoid mess, harbouring a strange obsession with radioactive sheep."
He needed a reliable vehicle to get to and from work.
ROF,L. It wasn't a "reliable vehicle", it was an '80s Jaguar. The Pinto would have been a better bet. share
Gosh, don't understand why everyone's so down on the Pinto. It's not like they have a bad reputation or anything...(tongue in cheek)....
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Reliable car? It was a a Jaguar E-Type !
shareMaybe she was having the affair because he was a selfish @ss who had a new sports car while his wife and child had an old Pint.
No one is saying she should've had a sports car, but THAT? Damn.
Wasn't his sports car a 2 seater? So the Pinto was the "family" car. If the husband, wife and kid had to go anywhere together they'd have to travel in the clunky old pinto. Maybe he/they weren't being selfish, just "cheap". In respect to the "family" mobile.
"I'm a vehemently anti-nuclear, paranoid mess, harbouring a strange obsession with radioactive sheep."
and it has serious muffler problems too.
We're not soldiers and he's not the enemy. He's a pizza man.
It seemed as though his car went from being a piece os s*** to being a really nice one.
The Jag was a piece of crap at the beginning.