BF Embarrasses GF For Her Quirk In Front Of His Friends, Regrets It When She Decides To Dump Him

I just spoke to Elliott about this and he thinks that guy is TA..

Don't worry Pandas on wheels, Vincent/Vince and I had a pretty fast discussion as well and decided OP isn't an A-hole, but an imbecilic dingbucket that doesn't deserve his ex or Angie. We read that he got dumped and that he thanked us for the judgments. Well, on behalf of Vince and I, YOU ARE WELCOME!!! -_-"

“Thanks for the judgement” No problem loser!!

Millie agrees, this dude is a douchewagon

I bought the Minnow in 2012 after my divorce and for a few months I stayed with a friend in a rural area. If I needed to go into town for errands, I generally did them all at once so my friend said I should call her that because every trip was a 'three hour tour.' The Minnow turned 21 this year! If we can name boats, why not cars?!

My first car was called Floozy cos the 1st 3 letters were FLZ. My current car is the Beast cos it could seriously survive an apocalypse...or me as the driver/owner, same diff.

That guy sounds super boring.

Matilda wants to hang out with Angie and talk about how her person did the right thing in dumping this fun sucker.

I am going with NTA, although it might have been in the way he said it. But this sort of cutesy talk would absolutely drive me crazy, I could never be with a person who is like that.

Definitely the AH for bringing it up with others present. If it bothered him that much he should have just broken up with her. I share the same opinion about naming vehicles but to each there own.

Unless the car is called Christine, don’t worry about it.

Otis would be furious with OP if it wasn't because I had to take him to the scrapyard 25 years ago. He died of old age, as one can only aspire to.

Ok, so, I've named my cars in the past, but don't currently have one for my car, but I have nothing wrong with it. But, if OP thought it was weird, then he should have talked about it to her alone and in a gentle way. Pointing it out in front of others in a condescending way while she's literally doing you a favor is pretentious as hell and not how you communicate in a relationship. So while others will say YTA because naming cars is normal, I'd also say YTA because of how he communicated with her.

I don't think he's TA, I just think they're incompatible. I would say when you're drunk and she's giving you a ride isn''t the best time to bring it up.

I feel like this could have been a dating story on Seinfeld, lol. Kind of like Jimmy talking about himself in the third person. Yeah, I don't think I could deal with someone talking about their car like it was a person.

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Big Spence agrees that the BF is an ahole. He also wants the girlfriend to know that Angie is definitely hungry and not thirsty when she needs gas. She is thirsty when her coolant levels need to be topped off.

My first car's name was Whipped Cream. Second car was Strawberry. Third car was Sexy. My fourth, and current car, is called Blueberry. Now, guess the cars! Lol

Both the General Lee and Eleanor are not happy

My gun metal gray metallic Sentra is called Jaws. It even has a shark license plate. I say I am riding Jaws to work, the store, wherever, simply because it tickles me! I owe no one an explanation.

My car Bella had a lot to say on this subject but unfortunately she is Italian (fiat 500) and I don't speak Italian so no idea what she said!

I (F63) and Ruby Lee (C11) think YTA.

I’m almost 70. All my cats have had names. So what! YTA. Grow up

She's well out of it, I like her style and think she has a better relationship with her car than she ever did with this guy. How incredibly immature to get upset about the way someone talks to their car

YTA! I love that your now ex named her car and gives it a personality!

A lot of girls I met gave names to their first car. My best ones are Titine (short for Christine in french, referring to a certain car in a S.King novel) and Porshitta (a really really bitten up small Toyota). I also joke around with my Polo some times , especially when it's having a bath 😅

My wife had a Renault Clio which she called La Misérable as in La Misérable morceau de merde française. Quite honestly I could see why.

Car naming sounds embarrassing to me as well, but it is still extremely rude to say that to someone especially if they're helping you. It's like if someone enjoys wearing a specific shirt that you think is extremely ugly- you still don't comment on it. F*****g rude. If he disliked it so much, he could have just broken up with her instead of insulting her like that.

Derek and I think the same! Dude's an AH! Our previous little car Dante also says so! And so do my rice cooker Ranma, my fan Alexis, my air frier Blythe, and all my other appliances that also have names! It's funny, nonsensical and just a harmless quirk for someone to have. Why would someone be so irked by it, I don't understand.

I got angry reading that it is anthropomorphizing to give a cat and dog a name, but it is necessary to be able to call them. Apart from that I have always tried to talk about or to computers politely, and as a result I almost never have trouble with them while colleagues who didn't or even bad mouthed theirs had their computers acting out all the time. When I was asked to swap computer with a colleague whose computer gave trouble I had no trouble with his but my old one broke down after one day in his company.

It does sound really annoying tbf, I obviously wouldn't call it out in front of people but still ick

Not a car but people Name their roombas. My parents called their Czesław. My ex has one named Sztywny. The guy in the post is no fun

Eccentric? Yes. Symptom of mental health issue? Most likely no. Harming anyone? Definite no here. She needs to find someone with a sense of humor and enough respect for her to not publicly shame her for something so trivial and harmless.

I had an old skool Fiat Panda. After almost 20 years she broke down on the highway and I had to leave it there to be picked up by a tow truck the next day. I could not sleep that night. I kept thinking of my Panda all alone on the side of the highway...

tbh, I never took the car thing as far as OP's ex gf. But I did name my previous car, a Nissan juke, "junebug" just because I thought it was cute and it reminded my of the OG VW beetle. Wasn't so happy when the transmission broke and left me stranded on the roadside though! It took months and thousands of $ to get a replacement gearbox. I just got it back fixed after a very long wait, and only 3 weeks after I gave up and bought a second hand Toyota Vitz. So now I'm selling Junebug, our relationship failed, but I've got Vitz to get me around in economical style. ;-) All three of us, Vitz, Junebug and I, think OP is TA for not appreciating the service Angie and her owner did him, transporting him and his drunk friends to and from the bar.

This makes me miss my car Rumple a gold...ish Ford Taurus

I think he’s an 🫏🕳️ because poor Angie is walking (driving) around being called “Angie” when her name is actually “Heather.”

Trevor disapproves of the BF's judgmental behavior ... I disapprove of him being judgmental and complaining about the judgments he got ...

i leased a mercedes and i never thought i'd be able to. so i named her Eleanor. people that belittle others for things that make them happy are a-holes

A guy names a boat and it's fine, a girl names her car and it's weird. He deserved getting dumped.

My truck is Hot Daniel (from Adventure Time 😹) and he's been a reliable companion for over 7 years. Got him from a junk yard for $750, and there's been no major problems. A couple years ago the fuel injector went out (luckily a rather easy and inexpensive fix when it comes to vehicular malfunction) but late that night after my truck was towed home and dumped in front of my house I sat in the trusty driver seat with my forehead on the steering wheel and I WEPT. Luckily it was found out a few days later to be that easy fix, and was done. Yes I have coworkers younger than my truck ('98 Dodge Ram) but to me he is the best vehicle

YTA!!!! My ex named his Suzuki VStrom Susie way before we ever met. I always thought it was really cute that he had 2 Susie's.

Initially I thought it was cringy. But as I read on I find myself looking forward to see learn how much more anthropomorphic can Angle get. Flat=changing shoes, I like that.