Girlfriend making $15/hour secretly buys an $800/month truck with her dad, texts her boyfriend after signing, destroying their apartment plans in one morning – FAIL Blog

The truck is almost beside the point. Yes, $800 a month on a $15 an hour salary is the kind of math that makes financial advisors physically uncomfortable. Yes, trading in a paid-almost-off truck with 60k miles for a brand new Ram because of a coolant leak is roughly equivalent to burning down your house because the faucet drips. These are objectively bad decisions and they will have real consequences.