Date:         Sun, 10 Jun 2007 23:24:38 -0700
Reply-To:     Don Hanson <dhanson@GORGE.NET>
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From:         Don Hanson <dhanson@GORGE.NET>
Subject:      Gender and names (was Fryeday on Sunday) from the digester..
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"Garcia's Ghost"...I bet there is a story behind THAT one..heh!  

  I am not one to name inanimate objects very often, but I will likely make an exception with this van.  It is starting to be like a 'buddy" to me, I seem to spend a lot of time with it, and my dog thinks it's HIS van already. 
   I usually pull up in our barn yard in front of my shop, slide open the door, get my bike out and then I leave the slider open...Whenever I can't find my big male Chessie, he is usually sitting up front, in the driver's seat, making sure the other critters don't take his van...He is also quite fond of the antifreeze mix and loves to help me wash the wheels many times daily...without a hose...
  And of course, when I drive somewhere and leave him in his van...he doesn't much care for people coming around to pet him through the windows...I have some small red stick-on signs on each window..."Beware of the dog"...and I try to park away from pedestrian traffic...
  I am sure some name will occur to me that'll capture the essence of my Van..It does have many female/yacht characteristics..but it behaves like a guy..kinda plodding, simple, fairly easy to please, easy to manipulate..slow, bigger than those "girley vans" from Toyota..  Something to do with 'square'....?
  Don Hanson