Your cars all have names, right? That's only normal behavior, isn't it? A few weeks ago one of my coworkers bought a car and was very excited about it. The only damper on her joy came when I asked if she'd picked out names yet. She looked at me blankly so I asked everyone in our row. Name after name. Some were cute names. Some were based on the license plate. Some had adjectives (i.e. 'Sassy Girl'). She'd never heard of this before so she started taking suggestions. I gave her 'the red menace' but she's too young for that to have meant anything. To my shame though, my car doesn't have a name either. Somehow in the four years of owning her a name never popped out. That simply wouldn't do! And it didn't have to be that way. After discussing it with the FP Gal, I chose a name that she'd shot down for the baby. Now that I've bought her, she will be called Pagoda . Bonus observation: people tend to drive cars of the oppo...
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My kids' favorite toy is a bottle of windex & a roll of paper towels. Those Japanese are onto something.
First, if you were a boy, and you saw a Jart, and you had the common sense God gave gravel, of COURSE you knew these things were dangerous! That's what taught you that the world wasn't a Nerf place to live!
Jeez...*grump, grump, grump*
I also have to gripe about the E-Z Bake Foundry being recalled; how else were we supposed to cultivate the next generation of Andrew Carnegies and H. C. Fricks?
Incidentally, wasn't there a series of Saturday Night Live skits in the '70's based around this idea?