I wanted to name it sh*t-Brick. He said that name would not make it feel loved anyways. I told him it would if he said "Baby" after saying it.
What kinds of objects get your affectionate names?
I've named a car also but not recently. It can be fun.I drive a CTS. My DH says it stands for Cadillac To Small.
He hates it.
My brother and his family name all their cars and their computers..even the printer gets a name..I used to name all of my plants, Snow! I was in high school and decided I wanted to have a lot of houseplants, so I named them after all the guys I had crushes on, LOL! It is still a big joke between my mother and I - for some bizarre reason she decided that Dennis the begonia needed his soil loosened, and she used a meat fork to do it. She ended up "stabbing him in the the tuber", killing him! I always like to tell her she "murdered Dennis".I've named all my cars. My first car was named "Cricket." She honked when you took a left turn. If you were a passenger in "Cricket," you were required to wave whenever she "chirped."
Years ago I even named a little live Christmas tree I picked up at WalMart - "Arbor Frio." He was a good little tree.
All computer devices in the house (from the routers to the printers to my cell/wifi phone) get quirky names - otherwise trying to figure out who/what is behaving badly on my network gets tricky!
No other inanimate objects in the house get names.
Ah --- I would have named it Marla - Marla Maples
I understand not sharing that - I haven't shared the name I gave my husband's "animate" object!
Well we call our 2002 VW Jetta, the Evil Jetti after the Star Wars bad guys. My beloved 1990 Mazda MX6 Turbo was named Baby. We don't have a name yet for our 2008 Toyota Rav 4, but Big Red has been used the most, not sure if it will stick or not.Hillhoney, it's not "Crawl the Warrior King" or "Princess Sophia" is it?
My husband calls his car "Turd." And everytime we're out and he sees one, he says "TURD!"
The workgroup I keep my boys (two little, one big) on is called "KNUCKLEHEADS"
I name my plants, vehicles and other items around the house....I don't know why, I just do. The truck is named car, car - don't ask, I don't know. The plants outside are named after friends. My vacuum is named Satan and the computer is named Bill, printer's name is Priscilla.
Snow, we had a 1951 Jaguar that we named the "Queen" and believe me she was. We threw a lot of money into her, 12 quarts of oil everytime we turned around and an electrical system that God himself couldn't get to work properly. In fact my ex husband still has her.
Like the Queen she's now worth a small fortuned.....think I lost out in the divorce. I bet that your sportscar was an English model. Sounds like one. Lindy
Nice to see my mom was not the only person to name things. I am not sure if I ever named anything other than live things like kids & pets. Oh I remember I named my cabbage patch. I named her Serena. Do not know why, I was 4. My 4 sisters and husband were all sitting around one day and got on the subject of men who name their penises. My sister asked my hubby what he named his. He said, "Mr. Ed" She said "Mr. Ed is a horse." My hubby said, "of course!" We were cracking up laughing. It was so funny!Oh CinDee, I love that story! (What a lucky girl you are!) Hi Snow, the Queen was a typical Jag but OMG I loved her. Exciting to drive, " convertible, restored, very sexy and I missed her more than I missed my ex husband - seriously.
When my son was allowed to drive her he'd phone me and say he was coming by, be ready. So I did get to drive her once in awhile, what a great son.
Years ago I had a black tee with Darth Vader on the front and the name "Jaguar, Prince of Darkness over Darth's picture. The head and tail lights are infamous for not working on the XKs. I finally was able to purchase a sports car and had it restored. I kept Gypsy until Stan and I got married and I traded her for a biggggg red truck. Now I have a big plum colored truck and I still want a sports car. Enjoy. Lindy
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