Absolutely I have. While this might seem odd to you, it is nevertheless the truth... My father has always liked cars. So much so in fact that he devoted his life to them. He had a small car lot that barely made ends meet but he worked insane hours to insure that we didn't go without. Anyway, rarely there was a car that he got smitten with and that car would be 'she'.

It was so obviously a term of affection coming from him that I felt slighted - not because he didn't show me affection, but my interpretation was that he was saying that affection went to girls. That really makes no sense because my father did nothing but shower me with affection, but nevertheless, my five year old self got jealous.

I did ask him why and he said that it was cause guys liked to find a special girl and protect and pamper and take care of her. In a similar way, this car was special to him and he wanted to protect and pamper and take care of it. It didn't alleviate my feelings of being slighted.

I know that the whole idea of 'taking care' of a woman is pretty outdated these days, as well as the protect and pamper. ~shrug~ I'm still there I'm afraid and god knows that dad still is too. Anyway, I'm certainly not trying to change your mind on this - just answering the question 'did you ever wonder why?' and the answer is definately yes, and I remember wishing that the car was called an 'it' too at the time.

Absolutely and I'm sorry if I got off track at all.