I was confused by the 'students don't' thing. I clubbed together with flatmates to get one when I was first a student aged 19, it was £100, these days you can get abasic one for £20, why would you not have one?
Because when you're a student (even if you've technically graduated and are simply living in a shared house where only one of you is a student), there's a tendency to set fire to them and BURN DOWN YOUR ENTIRE HOUSE.
So being trusted with one again is a sign of being a grown up.
My very first grown up pay cheque ever in my gap year went to buying my landlady a new microwave after an unfortunate potato to flaming charcoal lump incident. It was really embarrassing.
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