Buying a new car

My next door neighbor moved in roughly fifteen years ago.  Over the years she's driven a few different cars.  In the past, when it's come up in conversation I've found that she's swapped cars with a family member - she's rarely in her own car, which my understanding has been what her mother drives.  They each make payments on the vehicle they own but they drive each other's car.  It's weird.  She's also driven her sister's cars at times.

 

Anyway, a month or two ago (who knows what day it is anymore?) I noticed she had been driving a new car again.  Not sure if it was another family member's car or not, I asked if she had gotten a new car.  She said she had.  (It wasn't a Bentley, I just like this picture but if I ever have the single winning lottery ticket paying out a billion or more dollars, I will own one!) 

She tells me that her engine died or something to that effect and says they wanted something like $9,000 to repair the car.  Now mind you, I don't know if her car died or if it was the car she was driving (which was her mother's) that died but she got a new car out of it.  And I have to say, with that costly of repairs looking at me, I probably would do the same thing.

But then she tells me her boyfriend also bought a new car recently.  I knew this because her boyfriend lives right down the street from us and I had noticed him driving a different car.  I didn't ask about him and I didn't ask why he got a new car but she offered the information anyway.  Are you ready for this?

His battery died and he didn't want to replace it!  I'm not even kidding!  Who buys a whole new car when their battery dies?  Seriously, I want names because that's just NUTS!

But after having some time to think about this, I realize that it really has nothing to do with his battery dying.  I think it has to do with his girlfriend getting a new car and him being too macho to drive in a vehicle older than hers.  I seriously believe that because, in my opinion, anyone who would buy a new car just because the battery died is someone who is too stupid to have a driver's license, much less drive a car.

Am I wrong?