It’s All in the Name
It’s fun to name inanimate objects. The most popular objects to name are ships or cars. I don’t own any ships, so I’m left with cars. My cars all had names.
My first car was a used car. It was a 1967 Mercury Comet. It didn’t take me long to come up with a name for that car. It was called Noya. As in, “This car really Anoyas me, and this car encourages my para “noya”. You get the idea. If something could go wrong with a car, this car found it. Its most notable feature was that the windshield wipers only worked when the turn signal was on, and the wipers moved when the light of the turn signal was on…start, stop, start, stop… You were in trouble if it was raining and you turned a corner where the turn signal reset. It took you a few seconds to realize the wipers had stopped. And if it was a torrential rain…
My next car was a blue Plymouth Duster. I already had planned to call it “Hoops,” but when I got the car, it did not look like a “Hoops,” so it got the name “Little Hoops.”
Next, I had a Honda Accord followed by an Acura. I don’t remember their names, but I’m sure they each had one.
When I married Christina, we had two cars. One was a 1995 red Subaru Legacy station wagon, appropriately named “Red L.” Christina had a little red Mazda Hatchback. It, we called “Little Red.”
When Little Red became too small, for we had a child now, we got a 2001 Subaru Outback; it was green. We weren’t very original; it was called “the Outback.”
Now we have two cars. One is a caramel-colored 2011 Subaru Legacy sedan, called Milky Way. What else would you call something that had a caramel color. The newer car is a 2015 Mazda 3 hatchback (since our child has moved away and we could go back to a smaller car) named “Blue 2,” as it is the second blue car I’ve owned.
With the prices of cars now, it may be a while before we choose to purchase a new one. We hope the cars we have now last a lot longer. Either way, I will have to create a name for the new car. For those of you that know me, how does TARDIS sound to you? That’s a reference to Doctor Who. If you don’t know what a TARDIS is, it is an acronym for Time and Relative Dimension in Space. It’s a time and space travel machine—my kind of car, probably not Christina’s.
