New cars and child support

I suppose I should not have put new car in the title as much as put REALLY WANT A CAR THAT WILL ACTUALLY RUN! In the title bar instead. I am one of those people that needs to update things and get things and get the next "best" thing, but cars are the only area where you can not really do that. When you get a car and have to actually pay for it, you learn quickly that the wrong car will make you regret it every single day. I always study the cars I am about to get. There is only a couple of things I want in a car I am about to get nowadays and that is roominess and speed. I can accept if a car is a gas guzzler if I can do the 1/4 mile in the mid 15's. I hate an unreliable car! The car I have now, a 1984 Honda Accord, is one such car. Mind you, when I bought this ungodly hump of junk I was in a bit of a pickle. I had no money, and I had just took my 2004 Pt cruiser back to the bank (what a sad day). I should have given the piece of shit right back when in the first hours of owning the thing it cuts off on me and I have to walk more than 5 miles to get home. I kept the damn thing, and it took me to Nevada and Montana, but there was never more than 3 months where the car would not cut off on me leaving me stranded somewhere. Thing morning I go outside and warm it up. It runs for about 10 minutes when I get in it to leave. While putting my backpack in the back I could hear the sound no car owner wants to hear. The sound of your car clinging to it's last breath. I try starting it up about 3 or 4 more times and called it a day and went to the bus stop. So, I have decided to go out and start looking and saving for another car. I will probably not have the time, or the will power to save up for the entire thing, but there are some places that will still let me buy a car, even with my abysmal credit.

I will be going to the lawyer's office today to get the finals written up for my attempt to get my child support reduced. I should have gotten off of my ass a while ago but I am what you would call a dumbass. He says I have a good chance of getting it reduced. Anything is better than paying almost 900 dollars a month for one kid. I could understand if I was making bank, but I am barely getting by as is. I have spent so much time thinking and getting pissed about this it is time I took some action.

I go about being the nice guy, and that is how I got into this situation I am in right now. If I was more pro active I would not have 5,000 dollars of back support looming over my head. I blame myself for more than half of this crap, but I blame 2 other people. The child support services department in Washington and my ex-wife. My ex-wife knew I was hard up a year ago but she kept on digging into me like I had a secret stash somewhere. The worst thing I have ever done in my life was put my penis in her. Child support services is only there for one person, the mother. They can say they are there to make sure the kid is getting taken care of but they are not. Because if they were they would be making sure people are actually spending all that money on making life better for their kids and not making sure they drive a nice car. I have not problem paying child support. I have a problem with the department of child services not really trying to make this easier for all parties involve. They knew I was messed up but they continued to keep piling on the money as if when I get a new job they will give me a child support back pay bonus or something.

I am not a bad dad. I just want it to be fair all the way down the middle. If she is making 3 times more than me it is obvious she does not need as much support as she did when I was making 3 times as much as she was.