A car-loving papa talked at length about how difficult it is to own a Ferrari or Porsche—mainly because of the maintenance costs—but both are actually at my parents’ house, so I was listening while thinking, “Wow, my parents are amazing.” By the way, that papa doesn’t own either; he drives a foreign car worth around 5–6 million yen.
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In this situation, I probably shouldn’t say, “My parents have both too, so I didn’t realize they were that difficult to maintain,” right? Would that come across as if I were making fun of him?
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People who go on and on about maintenance costs shouldn’t drive foreign cars.
Just brush them off with a simple, “Oh, I see,” without saying anything unnecessary.
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I do like talking about cars, and I’m interested in Ferraris too, but wasn’t the point simply that you want one but can’t afford it because the maintenance costs are so high?
If that’s what they meant, I can understand it…
By the way, used Ferraris have also skyrocketed in price. They’re becoming unaffordable for ordinary salaried workers.
For example, the Ferrari 348 was unpopular, so apparently you could once find used ones for under five million yen. Not anymore, though.
Even the F355—at least the ones in good condition—could apparently be found used for around ten million yen before. Now they’re said to cost around twenty million.
That said, I came across a blog post about someone with an annual income in the four-million-yen range buying a used F360 for fourteen million yen. It described them as “the last ordinary Ferrari owner humanity will ever see.”
If you truly love something, maybe you need to be prepared to give up everything to buy it. It even made me realize that perhaps I still haven’t been prepared to that extent myself.
What’s more, new cars are getting more and more expensive. It may not be that Ferraris themselves have become more expensive; perhaps their prices have simply risen in line with inflation around the world.
Since prices in Japan haven’t risen for the past thirty years—or rather, salaries haven’t risen（笑）—I feel like they’ve become expensive in relative terms.
> “You shouldn’t say something like that, right?”
Since it isn’t actually your own car, I think you’d be better off not saying it.
That said, if you really do own one, they might ask you to take them for a ride if you mention it.
But then it also raises the question: why are you doing papa-katsu (compensated dating in Japan) in the first place?
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Judging someone by their car isn’t exactly wise.
He might own a Ferrari or Porsche and still be like Carlos Ghosn—offering an allowance of 50,000 yen or less. Meanwhile, there are papas like me who drive a Japanese car but casually hand over 150,000 yen per meeting.
That said, either way, keep your family background private. Just let idiots feel like they’re better than you.
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There was a guy like that—not a papa. He was around 31, but I later found out he still lived with his parents. Pretty pathetic, right?
I mentioned it to a papa who owns both a Ferrari and a Lamborghini, and he just smiled and said, “Maybe the people who don’t have them are the ones who feel the need to talk about them.”
So I think a casual “That’s impressive” is all you need to say. If you want to continue seeing him, it’s probably better not to bring up the fact that he lives with his parents. There’s nothing to gain from trying to prove a man wrong.
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You don’t even own one, lol.
Yeah, it’s probably best not to mention it.
It’d be a hassle if he got sulky, and it’d also be a hassle if his passion for cars suddenly kicked in.
That said, even some salaried employees drive Ferraris, so if he’s choosing to spend money at a dating club instead of buying one, he probably isn’t all that into cars anyway.
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