It's just a bit of fun. Calm down.
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MystMoonstruck — 10 years ago(April 18, 2015 02:27 AM)
In the Seventies, my dad bought an Oldsmobile for me to drive to my classes at a state college. I called it "The Spitzmobile" in honor of Olympic swimming champion Mark Spitz. Thanks to the huge popularity of "Jaws", there were many shark magnets around, so I bought a half dozen or so that ended up on the dashboard and surrounding the radio~keeping up with the watery theme.
Later, Dad bought a white T-Bird that I had a devil of a time driving because it wasn't automatic. I'm only 5'1", so it was a battle every time I drove it. I loved it but dubbed it "The Tank".
My most-loved car was a white Monza that even made it through a wreck in a storm with sleet, snow and icy roads then got me back home, 20 miles away, though they had to tow the other car, one that looked twice the size of mine. I had gone into a slide that had taken me sideways down a two-lane and into a deep ditch. Only a car which had gone in backwards kept my car from rolling and being lost in that storm, as this was a rural area. The impact shattered the driver's side window, and I didn't realize till I got a good look at it later that the other car had sliced through the door, leaving me only about three inches from losing most of my left arm. I was teaching high school then, and my students christened it "Crash & Burn", so I became Miss Crash & Burn! Before that, I'd always thought of it as "White Lightning" because it looked like a sports car though, surprising to me, it ended up costing amazingly little with great insurance rates. The only reason I gave it up was a repair shop that told me the undercarriage was simply going to fall apart. Grudgingly, I traded cars, only to see MY Monza being driven around the city for years after!
There have been others, with my present being a GEO Prism that I unimaginatively dubbed "The Geode". I recall, when I heard what type it is, I thought GEO sounded like "Geode" and "Prism" made me think of the shininess of a geode. Dumb, I know!
I'm not sure I gave any of them a male or female name. Again, perhaps I'm not all that imaginative, or maybe they never introduced themselves.
(W)hat are we without our dreams?
Making sure our fantasies
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WarrenPeace — 3 years ago(February 02, 2023 01:32 AM)
I named mine Bitch.
As in, "Start up you ****ing Bitch! Start Bitch, start! The psycho with the chainsaw is getting closer! Start up Bitch! We have to go now, Bitch!"
"Please vote to preserve the unique character of Warren…" - Robert Duvall -
DrakeStraw — 3 years ago(February 02, 2023 04:41 AM)
Not just guys. I knew a girl back in the sixties who named her car Beulah. Another girl named hers George. I never named my cars back then.
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