Chapter 439

• Although I consider my father an honest and trustworthy man, I always thought he was very stingy. He didn't skimp on paying for school and courses, but for everything else, he always put up obstacles and made me think about whether it was really necessary. He and my mother were the kind of people who would even count the price difference between smaller and larger packages to see which one was cheaper per gram.
• A car was one of the things they didn't consider necessary. They always did countless calculations, considering the depreciation of the vehicle, taxes, gas, and maintenance. That's why they never bought their own car. The company provided a car for work, and they, in their honesty, used it exclusively for that purpose. For personal matters, they only took buses, subways, and, in some cases, taxis. Likewise, that’s how I got to and from school.
• Just to be sure, I discreetly opened my banking app. There were no transactions in the history, which meant that he had paid out of his own pocket.