everything just for someone who wears their heart on their sleeve. If you're going to run away with someone, make sure that person truly loves you and where you aren't just some passing fling.

The other point I think that is being made with the movie is that we all have a responsibility to the community. In the United States, you see discontent. There are unhappy Americans. Yet, if you look at the lifestyle of Americans, it's not as terrible as the conditions in third world countries.

For example, the $44,000 minus the $11,000 for the trade in for the 2005 Avalon, still cost $33,000 for my parents. If you want to talk about poverty, that $33,000 could have gone toward feeding the homeless or helping better the lives ofa kid in Africa who is starving.

Should my parents have purchased a new car?

We could argue that with them being retired and where people are living longer, maybe that $33,000 could have gone into a nest egg for their retirement fund. What if my parents live for another 20 years and have no more pension? The $33,000 for that new "Moulin Rouge" Avalon could have gone toward that. It was an impulse buy.

However, it makes them happy.

Who am I to tell them what they should do with their money?

My mom had said that she felt guilty about buying the car because she knows how stressed I have been over the last 8 years trying to pull us out of debt. I felt bad for her. She can't even