The Price of Honesty....

....is about $646.

Which merely enforces my belief that I should have given up my medical aspirations and just become a mechanic. I could be cheating the daylights out of honest poor students which have confessed to langa-ing other people's cars and filled a pool with my lll-gotten gains and swum in it like an auto-mogul Scrooge McDuck. I could have a quartet of matching pit bull terriers with gold chain collars and the word "Butch" hanging from their necks in 24K gold. They could pull me around in my vintage blinged out ute with platinum trim. I could sleep with the entire female cast of Home and Away and never have to drink XXXX beer again. Nope, only the premium stuff for Scumsucker Mechanic Slinky.

Somehow, in my youth I failed to read suitably inspiring stories about greedy overcharging mechanics who swindle hapless car owners and go on to live happily ever after in their twenty-room mansions.

Me? Bitter? Noooooooo. But let me put things in context for you. $646:

• Is more than an entire month's rent. In my last place, it would be more than two months rent.

• Could buy me 200 Supre tops. Or 120 Supre dresses. We're ignoring the fact that most Supre stuff is only suitable for 16 year olds who want to dress like skanky hos. The point is I COULD. (Plus, sometimes you just want to dress like a 16-year old skanky ho.)

• Could buy me a return ticket home. I actually get a deep stabbing pain in my chest when I think about it that way.

• Would take care of all my groceries for a month and a half. More, if I only bought what I needed instead of squirrelling away giant cuts of beef sirloin and pork scotch fillets on sale (I can't resist cheap meat in vast amounts).

• Would buy me a pair of Laboutins in eBay. (Noooooooooooooooooooooooo my head is exploding)

• Could buy me another car (no, really.)

• Could let me swim with whale sharks. Twice.

• Will leave me with less than that in my bank account for the rest of the semester

I was talking to Small C and we decided that I should set up an online compaign to support honesty, with people wishing to support more people leaving notes and owning up to scratching peoples’ cars by clicking a button and donating money. A bit like the "Save Toby" campaign, except it's Slinky we’'re saving, and from impoverishment rather than being eaten. I only need 646 people.