Names

Car names, like nicnames, need to have a story and meaning. I can't just decide to call a person a different name for no reason but with a story behind it, the nicname sticks. Same when naming cars.

The cars I have owned/driven in various times and jobs usually had names. The Music Bus was was our old Verada station wagon and it used to collect the music team and their instruments for church when my sister ran the music. Then there was the Seacow, the nanny car from last year named from the story of Kotick the White Seal in the second Jungle Book, the seacow is the only thing uglier and with worse manners then Seavitch, a seacow is a dugong and the car was a Hyundi Trajet 7 seater so it fitted really well. Then there was Granny and grandfather's car which is still in Maitland and it's number plate is 666 and for a while it made an unusually loud roar for the size of the car so I called it The Beast. Now the family car is called The Dolphin, the kids named it that because it looks like a dolphin and the name fits her beautifully. Lastly the car that I drive has been named Slowy Blue, Slowy was the idea of the 4 yr old, because she is not a very speedy beast, and Blue because of the pony Bluey last year who COULD go fast once he got warmed up but until then there was not much action. I really like Slowy Blue because she is a cross between The Music Bus and The Beast and is 20 yrs old and has little quirks that I get to find out about and learn to work with.

Some names spring forth into the head suddenly and easily but mostly there is a bit of a wait while you work out which name fits best.