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AIBW - AM I BEING WEIRD??

91 replies

KrayKray00 · 24/06/2017 21:28

I have a new car!! WAHOO!!

But I feel so guilty to get rid of my old one. Like I have a personal attachment. "She" was my first car and has served me well but she is old and needs so much work doing which is worth more than the car itself. I brought a new one today and I feel so guilty.

My new car is on the drive. Full clean and service. NIce, shines and smug.

OLd car is on the road looking so sad.

My OH thinks I am weird for feeling so strongly about a car however it is only worth scrap as it is very old and falling apart.

I was just wondering is it just me or do other people ever feel like this? They have names too!!

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TheFatOfTheLand · 24/06/2017 21:54

YANBW

I cried when one of my cars had to be scrapped Sad

RIP Betty Flowers

viques · 24/06/2017 21:59

My last car had been in an accident ( not my fault) and although it was drive able and I drove it for months afterwards and I couldn't in all conscience sell it, so I scrapped it. The scrapping man came and the first thing he did was smash the front and back windows with a huge hammer to put a gripper thing in to lift it. I wasn't expecting it, thought it would be driven away on a tow truck, and I was really shocked. honestly, I looked like Shock

TheAtlanticWatch · 24/06/2017 22:00

YANBW. I felt the same about my Fiat 500 when I sold her last year. She was a brilliant little car. To make it worse DS (4) still keeps asking me on a daily basis where she is.

We name our cars and I know lots of people who do the same. So if you are weird you are definitely not alone. Grin

Rachel0Greep · 24/06/2017 22:01

No, I don't think you are being weird. There is nothing like your first car, IMO. I think it represents something really special. Independence, the open road, whatever...

I still remember when I sold mine, (years ago!) and driving away, my heart was broken, seeing it sitting forlornly at the garage.

hazeydays14 · 24/06/2017 22:03

YADNBU I cried when my first car had to be scrapped.. Charlie his name was and he served me well.. he was quite a rare colour so when I traded him in for a boring blue I was sad..

I was 18 in my defence

Heartoverheadhouse · 24/06/2017 22:03

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TippyTinkleTrousers · 24/06/2017 22:04

YANBW!

I love my cars! I'm gutted when they die.

ChildishGambino · 24/06/2017 22:05

lol it's a lump of metal

CigarsofthePharoahs · 24/06/2017 22:08

I miss my old car. He was called Sammo.
He was a Citroen Saxo in Sunset Red, ie dusky pink and he was a loyal hard working chap. Wish I'd been able to keep him, but he was due a massive bill due to an upcoming MOT he was destined to fail. I was leaving work as I was on mat leave with #2 and with no intention of going back to work it seemed silly to be running two cars.

Haven't bonded with our other car in the same way. Its a pain to park and shortly after we got it there was an infamous spree killing and the letters in the number plate were in the killers name and that's what I think of every time I see the number plate!
Cars have personality.

chitofftheshovel · 24/06/2017 22:08

Well if you are weird then I am too. I remember following "gizmo" who was on a flat bed recovery vehicle on her way to the scrappies, in my new to me car. I was weeping like a baby! There are so many memories in them.

Knightly · 24/06/2017 22:09

I feel so sorry for DD's once-best-beloved toy that I have to give him a comfortable seat for the day, or let him look out of the window, when I find him scrunched up, face down, on the floor

This is me 1000 times over!

GarkandGookin · 24/06/2017 22:09

When I traded in my faithful old Fiesta for a nearly-new car from a dealer I was so excited I forgot to say goodbye and thank you. I still feel guilty...Sad

So, no, you are not weird at all by my standards!

PutThatPomBearBack · 24/06/2017 22:11

I felt like this recently with my electric toothbrush.

WABW. (we are both weird)

ophiotaurus · 24/06/2017 22:16

I'm glad I'm not alone! My car was ten years old when we traded it in and I still miss it. I daren't tell dh. The new car is great, but I had so many memories in the old one. Bought it when I was pregnant with ds1 and we've driven it on all our family holidays :(

MsAdorabelleDearheartVonLipwig · 24/06/2017 22:19

I always feel a bit sad trading in my car for a newer one. That car has memories attached to it. We've been all over the place in it as a family. It's carried my children safely for miles. You do get attached to things. You know how it all works, everything's familiar. It's like a little home from home.

I'm currently lusting after a bigger car and I feel guilty every time I look at my car. It's done nothing wrong, it's never let me down, it's just not big enough anymore.

When I traded my iPhone in for a newer one the man in the apple shop said he's seen people get tearful getting rid of their old phones. Now that's weird.

marymoosmum · 24/06/2017 22:24

Yanbu I cried when I had to get rid of my first car. I know they are just metal but they do carry memories, it is those you get attached to.

ticketytock1 · 24/06/2017 22:25

Jesus I get like this over everything... I'll go to throw out a pair of tights with holes in them and I'll think 'oh no I can't part with these cos I was wearing them when ds looked sideways and farted for the first time'!! I'm a sentimental fucker that way. YANBW

opinionatedfreak · 24/06/2017 22:25

YANBW. Cars mostly have personalities (not all do, my old Focus, the Train, didn't and I wasn't remotely sad when I sold him).

All cars in our family have names, even the boring ones, and many have been much mourned - Jilly the Morris Minor Traveller (my mum's when we were kids), Tabitha the Fabia (everyones at some point), Charlie (my first new car), and Sven (my brothers last estate car who carried us on many slightly bonkers sibling adventures) spring to mind.

stuntcamel · 24/06/2017 22:26

Not weird. I ordered a brand new car, and was trading my old one in. The day before I was due to pick up the new car, I thought I'd better give the old car a clean, and hoover it out a bit, before handing it over.

Cleaned it. Tidied it. Polished it. Burst into tears. Phoned the garage and cancelled the deal.

Redsippycup · 24/06/2017 22:31

Not weird. My second car was very precious to me. I traded her in as part of the scrappage scheme and talked to her all the way to the dealership Sad

PhoenixJasmine · 24/06/2017 22:32

Not at all! I cried waving goodbye to a car once.

Iamastonished · 24/06/2017 22:33

YABW because you refer to your car as a she. It s an inanimate object and is an it.

ConfidentlyUnhinged · 24/06/2017 22:35

I bought my first and last brand new car 17 years ago. At 8 yo I gave her to a family member and have had 4 cars since. This week she is off to the great scrap yard in the sky. Can't believe it really. ive had cars I loved since, but she is special and loyal and I feel so sad that I won't see her again.

ExplodedCloud · 24/06/2017 22:36

Not weird.
I cried big, splashy tears when I took my last car out for a final spin when I sold it. I loved the pistons (all 6 of them) of that car.
It went to a fellow enthusiast who could give it the attention it needed. I believe it's still on the road :)

ChildishGambino · 24/06/2017 22:38

Lol really?!??? They're just cars.

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