maybe it's the sheer number of years and miles i've had it, or the various experiences and life changes i've had in it or near it or using it on my way to them, i dunno. but we can't afford to have two cars and don't need two cars, and the other car is newer and bigger, so. ack!
*just as i shan't teach my dogs tricks because they are not circus performers, i shan't name cars, because they are not people. i like it for its car-ness, not for its anthropomorphizability.
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what is up with all these shan'ts? (over in the new self description too.)
it's kinda my thing. just you wait; in 3 years "shan't" will be the New Big Thing. like LOL or OMG or american cheese.
i shan't name cars, because they are not people
then we shan't name the pets? or television shows? or our meals?!
I totally get you on not naming cars; it freaks me out. Two of my best friends in high school named their cars -- one car was Oliver and the other one was Betsy -- and I have to say that the petting of the dashboard and crooning "here we go, Betsy," or "don't fail me now, Oliver!" was pretty much cancelled out for me by everything else. Do you really fill up a Betsy with gas, and then stomp on her until she gets going, and then leave her out in the rain? Do you really let old Oliver get all banged up and then laugh and laugh when little parts of him fall off? Sadistic, that's what I thought.
This from the girl who had a car named "lulu the windowless blue berry"?
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