Anyone else talk to their cars ?

[Gingerwitch]

I have always been taught to praise a horse when it does well - not just tell it off. So after 3 pretty dicy tips to the field this morn as we have an iceberg to negotaiate, i was there patting each one and saying good boy, good girl, steady etc.

Drove over it in the car and i said "whoa, steady, good car" - truely this weather has affected me !

 

[Geraldine]

I always talk to my car - I'm usually apologising to her!!!

 

[caitlin95uk]

mym mom talks to her tom tom it even has a name, because it had a australian accent it is called bruce.and when she turnsa the wrong way she aappologizes to it..

 

[kateknights]

Yep, especially when i crunch the gears!

am always saying sorry

Kate x

 

[rowan]

Yep, we have starting problems with the jeep and when she starts I tell her she a good girl and pat the dash board

how sad am I

 

[MrsMozart]

Perfectly normal to talk to your car

...it's when it starts talking back that you have to worry

 

[Ashgrove]

Always talk to my vehicles, especially my lorry because he's old and called Dave.

 

[soxsmummy]

i talk to my car all the time lol

 

[SonnysHumanSlave]

i do!!! and i often swear abuse at it too!

 

[spookypony]

It's when you try to leg-yield your car that you know you're in trouble...

 

[hairymolly]

Yip me too I have thanked my car for getting me up the road to the stables quite alot recently although we did do a rather hairy and unplanned shoulder in last week.

 

[MrsMozart]

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It's when you try to leg-yield your car that you know you're in trouble...

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You mean you're not meant to do that....???

 

[Ellies_mum2]

Yep and my cars always have names too

New one is called Perdy

If my car behaves its called princess and other nice names. If on the other hand it should break down (rarely *crosses fingers* ) then it is called some rather nasty names usually beginning with B

 

[Gingerwitch]

Ellies_mum - why perdy just out of interest?

 

[V1NN]

i used to talk to my last car, it was old and beautiful and called angel, my new 1 is tiny and is called thumbelina

x

 

[Ellies_mum2]

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Ellies_mum - why perdy just out of interest?

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Its a Peugot

Has a nice ring to it doesn't it

 

[jendie]

Have always talked / pleaded with my cars. Works wonders!

 

[Spudlet]

Every time my car made it up the slope to my yard when it was frozen solid and no one else could make it I patted her steering wheel and told her she was a good girl

My car is known as Daisy to her friends

My mum named her!

 

[Super_Kat]

I don't really talk to my car.....................More screaming verbal abuse.

 

[Ellies_mum2]

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I don't really talk to my car.....................More screaming verbal abuse.

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Yeah we had a car years ago that responded much better to being hurled abuse at - was a Nissan Cherry

 

[FrodoBeutlin]

Yes, absolutely. I have an obsessive relationship with Joey, my first car. When I bought her I didn't have a horse and she totally became a surrogate for horses for me. We used to hack out etc. I kiss her goodbye or goodnight and so forth

I am always talking to her (she is semi-retired now) and even the mechanic (whom she needs quite frequently, nowadays) refers to her as Joey (as opposed to 'your car') - everybody knows she is called Joey!

The Mini is called Joules and I do talk to her too but it's a less significant relationship in my mind.

 

[Chunkie]

I pat my steering wheel and tell the car she is a good girl every time she passes a tractor without spooking.......

 

[cariadssogreat]

I'm another one that usually just throws verbal abuse at my car..... the lorry however I am always polite to

 

[Quadro]

i always praise my car when we fly past other drivers

he is called whizzy cos its so fast!! the lorry i pray to so it starts

 

[tangoharvey]

not only do i talk to it, mine has a name....connie!

 

[Ziggy_]

My car is called Julian, he gets a stroke and a pat when he starts first time as he doesn't always and when I change lanes on the motorway I always imagine I'm leg yielding...

Totally. Normal. Behaviour. IMO.

 

[1life]

My kids despair of me because I talk to everything

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My current car is called Beasty, my last was Bessy, another was Winnie (cos she was the colour of Pooh

) and my first was Yellow Peril cos she was old and....yellow!
Not quite sure why I name them or why I talk to most things and maybe it's best for me not to analyse it too much either

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[hessy12]

Ooh, I'm so glad it isn't just me!
My car gets a "thank you car" when I arrive at destination ad i also pat it's steering wheel. Also has a name (Perky). I never shout at it, cus I love my car, but no where nearly as much as my horse...

 

[amandaco2]

i do. mine is brill- doesnt even flinch at the pressure hose when getting bathed.and his canter pirouttes are brill!
i also like to pat him when big lorries go past on the motorway...
he is called platty.

 

[T_K]

QR I always talk to my car, especially recently - telling him he's a clever boy for getting me through some particularly bad stuff. The road to the farm is rather unused as there are only 2 other houses on it, over Christmas I had to go up 3 times a day as YO was away and I was looking after all 23 ponies and 3 goats!

Some people with 4x4s wouldn't have gone down there but my Golfie didn't put a wheel wrong.

I think by personifying the car it makes me feel safer as I'm not out there on my own.

I also strongly believe I can slow him down just by rubbing my finger on his steering wheel and saying 'whoa boy'!!