Ok... the car has a sense of humor

[athenaltena]

Despite myself, the name I came up with for the Rav4 out of nowhere appears to have stuck.

Usagi.

*dodges bricks* Yes, I understand the Sailor Moon connection, but it stuck. I think my first thought was that I didn't want my car to be a ditz, actually.

And it's written like this - 兎 - for those of you with Japanese language support. I can't help it, for some reason the car reminds me of a rabbit. ;_; As some of you would say it named itself. I guess I was thinking of the rabbit god from Okami (Yumigami) who pounds the cakes. Oh well.

Speaking of the car it handles very well, and I'm glad I was able to pick it up today. Strangely it's higher than both of my parents' cars, which was a bit unexpected. It really does drive like a Camry, and I like the way it accelerates. Leon, the guy we bought it from, is a good friend of Dewey, the guy who sold us the Prizm, and so far both of them have completely broken every stereotype of a used car salesmen I've heard. Leon completely fixed it up and even changed the oil. I'm not expecting any problems from it.

And was was hilarious was that when I walked out of Big Y (local supermarket) I remembered staring at my car for a few seconds and admiring it... until I noticed it had a Honda symbol on the front. It took me a few seconds to realize what was going on and that I was looking at the wrong car! A guy saw me and started laughing, and I was laughing at myself the whole way home. That was funny.

And my mom just commented that the car was "cute" sitting next to my dad's. I guess it is. ^_^

Comments

congratulations

[fairiegodmother.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear you've got new wheels. I like the name. How's the Rav for cornering?

Can you send some of that good used car sales mojo this way? Am looking for a good used Forester.

Glad to hear your new laptop is working well-I always name my machines and vehicles, too. My present laptop is Psyche, before that it was MtFuji, and the one prior was Tesseract. Hope you are able to retrieve or salvage some files from backup.

Hope your head/sinus problem continues to heal without difficulty.

Re: congratulations

[athenaltena.livejournal.com]

Thanks. The Rav is different on cornering than I'm used to, but it seems to take them well. I'll definitely send the used car sale mojo. ^_^

I got most of the files before I sent Hermes out, I just missed one I was dreading rewriting, though in retrospect it's maybe a good thing I need to do that one again.

[janus-2.livejournal.com]

Yep the old old Honda CRV and Toyota Rav4 are almost clones for each other. I have the old CRV. glad to hear you and your new "old" SUV are doing well. You should not have any problems as long as you keep it away from vehicle eating guardrails, poles, and other hungry road defining objects. :)

[athenaltena.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they certainly were similar. Especially from the front. ^_^

And I'm not planning on repeating the guard rail incident again, so hopefully this one (which had just about everything replaced new) will last a long time if I can help it.