Recently I was blessed to be in the position of needing to get a new vehicle. My last 2 new vehicles have been VW Tiguan and I LOVE that car I would have gone for a third one but I don’t like the body style they have out now (2023 into 2024) and because Volfie needed a timing chain replacement $3,000+ and they said that wouldn’t fix the oil issues it’s just at the age (6 years young) that the oil level starts to become an issue that just gets worse over time….so we got a Bronco again because of the time restriction of the timing chain we didn’t get my pick list but a rather close second 😎.
However before I start rambling this post is about unasked for validation…so…
As you saw I refer to my last car as Volfie, I have nicknamed ALL of my cars, to name a few there was My Little Green Coffin 🤣NO ONE in my family or friends liked that I called it that…but I am a BIG SIZED human 5’6” and 350+lbs (at the time) I knew if I had an accident in that little green Hyundai Accent I would become one with the car and they would have to burry us both.
I’ve had a Saturn VUE she was Vueie that seemed to be the silliest nickname in the list tho and might I add the only “she” in the list.
We have a Ford F250 and it’s blue but we call him Baby Baloo, like Baloo from the Jungle Book.
Volfie he not only was a VW but he was made in Wolfsburg Germany so it just made since Volfie.
Now to the one that sparked this blog posting, our new Bronco he is black and of the badlands line, and in the 3 1/2 days we’ve had him I have been trying to decide on a nickname while driving to and from work. On the way home from the dealership that first night after a long day at work I was telling him, the new Bronco, that he had HUGE shoes to fill and explaining Volfie and I’s many days and memories together in the 6 years we had together, I spent a lot of time in that car not only for work but to visit my mom, our dog D’Argo was always with me too and spent almost as much time in Volfie as I did, and in trying to pull myself back from the brink of depression again did a hard blink of my eyes willing the sadness away shook my head and I said “well Buck now you and I get to make memories, oh wait Buck no that can’t be your name that’s to obvious and silly and who wants a vehicle that bucks…no how about Puck, like from Shakespeare, no wait that’s to mischievous, well we will figure it out at some point we will have many years together I am sure Bu….um Bud…Bub ummm well for now Bronco.” Over the next 3 days on my trips to and from work The Bronco and I discussed many things like I used to with Volfie, and each time I tried a new nickname nothing seemed to feel right other than Buck but I kept saying no to that, and on the third day I was trying out a character name from an audio book series I’ve been listening to because out of the blue on the drive in to work I excitedly thought 🤩 ‘oooo how about RESHI oooo oooo wait or KVOTHE’ 😻 both names are from a book series by Patrick Rothfuss and the character is a very wise, strong in magic, and a protective person, (kind of like The Witcher - Geralt) great qualities for a vehicle right?!?! So I was about 5 min away from work and quite proud I had thought of that and was feeling the new name out and it seemed we might have come to an agreement just seesawing between what one since both names were for the same person and I was leaning to Reshi…I went on with my workday not thinking about it. My husband called towards the end of the work day and while we were discussing dinner plans he blurted out ‘hey I had an idea for a name for the bronco, but I’m sure you’ll hate it’ oh I said what is that? ‘Bucky, you know like a bucking bronco, I know it’s silly right? I just thought of you haven’t thought of one yet…’ he trailed off. I was so stunned I stopped the pacing I had been doing, I was pacing because it was cold outside and I was in front of other businesses windows & entrances, I was stunned so much it left dead air on the phone for a bit and my husband said ‘umm hello are you there? did the call drop? hello???’ I replied “oh sorry yes I am here that just really stunned me, the Bronco and I have been trying to decide on a name and I think you just gave me validation I didn’t know I needed.” And I explained to him about all the names I had been thru.
So here he is, I am proud to introduce to you our Buck….
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