I imagine when anyone drives a Bobcat for the first time, they drive it badly.
They exist:
Though I’m somewhat baffled as to why someone would pay 55 bucks for one, given that you could get a passable full-blown drill for that.
Yeah, guaranteed it irritates them too. Ask Thermos or Kleenex why. 
Once a brand name gets into common use, you can lose your trademark.
Fun fact: “Kerosene” was once a trademarked brand name.
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On an assembly line that cordless screwdriver would be lighter and less fatiguing to use than a drill, over an 8 hour shift.
Remember when some called a refrigerator a Frigidaire?
It’s in a line of the old blues tune “Gonna move to the outskirts of town”
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And vacuums in some parts of the world are called Hoovers. Many parts of the country all cola’s are called Coke.
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When I worked on the loading dock in the early 60s ,every forklift was a “tpwmotor”, no matter who made it. People ask for a “Kleenex” rather than a tissue and the one that puzzles me is that down south I hear people refer to any soft drink as a “Coke”
it was originally called coca-cola which sounds like coke. in the beginning it had cocaine in it. in the form of an extract of the coca leaf
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I might be wrong but I think that the fact that Coke-Cola was invented in the south shortly after the civil war and quickly became one of the most poplar drinks around is the reason we do that
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Do you know the history of why it was invented and named Coke-Cola?
They got one thing wrong it was not a drug store i Columbus Georgia but a Drug store in Villa Rica Georgia.
Here I sit, - all alone with a broken heart - took 3 bennies and my semi-truck won’t start’
Aspirin was trademarked but Bayer didn’t work hard enough to protect it.
Not to change the subject but they are a lot of fun. I’ve rented them. A real Bob Cat and a John Deere I think it was but yellow. Not as much fun as a DC7 though.
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My parents had a professional come out to the property with one of these recently. Appears to be a Caterpillar of some sort. They let a few areas get so overgrown you almost could have made some sort of maze in the pasture grass. Cost almost $2,000 but worth it to have a pro job. 
They are not that hard to drive, our forklift broke, put fork skids on a skid steer, shooting solo, got a phone breifing, how you start and what the pedals do, did not know the forks had to get locked in, so there they were stuck under the load I had tried to lift. Got em locked in, but using skid steer for my first try as a fork lift was touch and go but got her done. Next year rented one to move 18 cy of sand to refill the beach. All ended well. Yes I got good enough on the skid steer to unload trucks as needed, But I was just a guy who would do anything needed, fix anything, my title GIS Specialist, database, backup, AV tech support directing underlings for updates etc. was my official job.
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