In our family, names are usually based on numberplates. :)

Mum's is Keejay, and mine is Jack. Although I guess the names are a little far removed from the plates themselves...

But once you name it, you start talking to it... I wasn't sure if I was talking to the car or just reassuring myself today though. "Come on, it's just a corner, you can go faster"... I think my mother's boyfriend was giving me really odd looks at some points. :D

I went at about 25MPH, but I had my foot pressed a little too hard on the accelerator. ^_^;

I think mum's boyfriend wanted to get me to around 4th or 5th gear in that lesson, but after an hour I asked if we could stop, because my hands were starting to shake... (Although I didn't admit that!)

He said though at the start of my lesson that in your first lesson you're commonly taught to move up through the gears to 5th... but then he told me that people are taught to drive around islands in their first lesson, and afterwards confessed that he'd lied about that...

I'm so glad it was on a private road at work! -_-;;; I'd have been a menace to other drivers had I been on the public roads...

In some ways I feel better. I know every car is different and you get used to your own car more than anyone else's, but my mother managed to stall Jack three times before she even reversed off the drive, and then again once she was set to go forwards.

The clutch does go down a long way though... I always thought it would be something approximate to the accelerator, but I guess I was wrong. o.o;

And... is that from experience, that bit about traffic speeding towards you?! O.o;;

I always find it odd how girls give their cars (and PCs) male names, and guys give their cars / PCs female names. :P (Says the girl with two honestly genderless PCs and one female PC - named by someone else, but still female...)

I'm sure you'll do better than I was!