cars! (was Re: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: naming computers & inanimate objects)

[Jen Faulkner]

On Fri, 30 Mar 2001 hamster8 at hotmail.com wrote:

> So, listees, if *you* could be a car, what car would it be?

I'd be *exactly* the car I have -- a '97 green VW Golf.  I *love* my car
-- he's my baby.  :)  (And yes, that's the name by which I call my car,
'Baby'.  It's better than what I've named every fish I've had for the
last 20 years, Fishy; it might've earned the name 'Car'...)

It was love at first sight, really -- I'd wanted a '97 Golf, but had
despaired of finding one used ('cause who'd want to part with theirs???)
except at a dealer where it would cost way more than I could afford, or
with a non-automatic transmission (I can't drive stick), until one day
last summer, I was going past a house practically around the corner from
my mom's house, and there he was, the cutest little thing you'd ever
seen, with his happy face and adorable little hatchback, exactly the
shade of green I'd imagined...  with a for sale sign.  Peeking in the
window I hardly dared to hope it might be automatic, but it was!!  I
turned right around and went back to my mom's and called.  And thus I
got precisely the car I'd wanted, at under blue book price, in perfect
condition...  Fate.

--jen, who really does love her car :)

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