# (Old) Alexa, start the MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [January 20, 2025, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-alexa-start-the-mmp/1013150 "2025-01-20T12:09:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 477
**Author:** ![Bob\_Blaylock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bob_blaylock/32/3235_2.png) [@Bob\_Blaylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bob_Blaylock)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-alexa-start-the-mmp/1013150/477 "2025-01-27T03:46:09Z")
> [@Seanette](#): > > To give you an idea of the weirdness level of conversations in my household :), @Bob_Blaylock insists that his Jeep has a mind of its own and when he went _near_ a piece of rough road today, the Jeep supposedly refused to let him not travel that piece of road. This is not unusual. I’ve taken to calling it Christine, which he seems to not really appreciate. Any other suggestions for names for the vehicle with a mind of its own that makes its owner follow its wishes?   It’s unndeniably true.   I sort of noticed it about the Compass that we rented back in the Summer of 2022, when the Dart was in the shop for about a month; that it wanted to be taken out for long drives.  I didn’t get the sense, at the time, of the Compass having any consciousness or intelligence, but I certain got the sense that it called for being taken out on long drives, in a manner that I had never previously noticed about any vehicle.   But when we got our first own Jeep last June, I quickly became very much aware that it has a soul of its own, a will of its own, and that in a much clearer way that I had noticed about the Compass, it communicated on a regular basis to me, demands that it be taken out on long drives.  It clearly was a living, thinking being, possessed by a powerful spirit of wanderlust.   It’s predecessor, which we got with the insurance money after [the first one sank](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tying-up-loose-ends-in-the-mmp/1011700/239), has a very similar spirit, though it is older, more experienced, and wiser.   On a somewhat related note, I’d like to ask the folks on this forum to help me choose between two pictures that I took today of my Jeep, to submit to a challenge on another forum under the theme _“My Ride”_.  See this thread: > [@Help Me Choose a Photograph for a Challenge On Another Forum…](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-choose-a-photograph-for-a-challenge-on-another-forum/1013464): > >   Are we allowed to link to other forums?  I know some forums don’t like that, and I am not sure about this one.   Anyway, on another forum, specific to Nikon Cameras and those of us who use them, the theme for the current weekly challenge is “My Ride”   Today, I took my Jeep out to a place very near where [its predecessor sank](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-tying-up-loose-ends-in-the-mmp/1011700/239), and got some good pictures of it.   Having processed out some of what I have, I am torn between two pictures to submit.  I like each of them very much, in different wa… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-alexa-start-the-mmp/1013150)._