A Bug's Life

I like Nash and Gnasher. But I'm being careful not to say anything about gerbil names to squirrelmonkey. Otherwise the poor things would be Dennis and Gnasher whatever you call them. He was glad you wanted the gerbil ball, though he did remind me that Digger and Joe just used to sit in in frozen to the spot and only Gilbert ever got the hand of running around in it. Maybe it's more of a hamster thing.
When we went looking for our gerbils, we lacked names. We had only a stern determination that spidermonkey's one must have red eyes. (And preferably black fur, but he gave up on that in the face of biological impossibility.)
Good luck with the driving lesson. This is not the city I'd choose to learn to drive in, but at least you'll get good at not hitting the cyclists.