Klumpen0815: Talk is cheap, I'd reserve it for the moment amrit gets his money back after all those months.
Regarding the car renting:
Is there no public transportation and are there no used bikes available in the states? I can't imagine this.
I'm always baffled at how people are handling money.
I can neither afford a car nor public transportation in my town, so I take the bike (a really crappy one, so that it doesn't get stolen). The fact, that regional pricing is hitting me pretty hard is another problem, but I just don't buy those games out of principle anyway.
You just shouldn't live beyond what you can afford and never borrow money for things that are not absolutely crucial to sheer survival, in fact, I wouldn't even borrow money then but rather try to earn it in the streets.
Borrowing money for video games is just bollocks and so is lending it to strangers on the internet (sorry amrit, I know you're a good chap).
Yes, exactly what I was thinking too. I will assume that you are 40+ too as this is an old school way of thinking. Save up then buy something, only spend what you can afford, keep money in the bank etc. Welcome to the new world, everything is on credit, nobody saves anything, governments force you to spend money to escape recessions (buy downgrading those who save for instance). Its the american dream, "i'll buy that for a dollar".
Even I have given up, put some money in the bank so I don't fall behind on mortgage payments, its makes 0.fuckall% interest, if I just pissed that up the wall, became unemployed, I would have tons of free time and still be on the same money. I wouldn't worry though, its all propped up by cheap migrant labor and will collapse eventually.