Incidents and accidents

So, John took apart half the damn car yesterday… no, not really. Just all four spark plugs. The car still doesn’t start though, so this morning we went looking for the starter. After several hours looking through the repair book, looking online, following battery cords and calling Jared, we’ve discovered it’s location. It’s placed direclt under about 30000 cords, hoses, and wires. In order to get that damn thing out of there, we’d have to have rubber arms and be REALLY good practitoners of the Kama Sutra or something. It would cost us $140 (plus shipping) to have one sent to us to replace ourselves, and John says we don’t even know for sure if that’s the problem!
I was talking to Christine yesterday and she said “Heather, I think you just need to give up on the car. Buy a scooter or something.” I replied “A $1500 scooter isn’t really an investment we can afford to make right now.” to which she says “But you’ll buy a $900 camera?” She and John are of similar minds in this. To me, what I want and what I need are of equal value. Yes, I need a new car. Yes, I want a new camera. To me, same priority. It seems like to the people that matter most in my life, I’m really stupid for even thinking of buying a new camera, much less placing it on par with a car/scooter.