I’m back in-country since yesterday for the next couple weeks and have scored a few interesting ones already. And a flood of white vehicles.
POODLS on a FL standard plate on a new white Jaguar sedan. I saw the driver park & get out. She had the sort of old money society look that suggested “Poodles” just might be her nickname, not her choice of dogs. I saw no dogs nor any dogly paraphernalia.
STEPS⎵BG on a FL standard plate on a shiny clean white mid-line pickup. Which was head-scratching enough. Then I got close enough to see the plate frame. Top edge said “STEPS BG”. Bottom edge said “One goat. One Passion - FOOD”. So now we know that’s the name of his goat. But why would anyone get a plate named after their goat? Aye, there’s the mystery for sure.
NONNY⎵G on a FL standard plate on a white small crossover. A very common granny/geezer mobile around here. Hooray for Nonny; she’s still driving.
ONE⎵PIEC on a FL standard plate on a dark gray (finally!) Hyundai IONIQ 5 small E-SUV. OK, one piece. But of what? The plate frame top said “Keep Calm” and the bottom said “Join the Straw Hats” with what looked like an East Asian-language ideogram flanking the words on both sides. Color me mystified. I later checked wiki and now I know: Straw Hats - Wikipedia. Now you can know too.
I guess we’re keeping Florida weird one plate at a time.
WNSNFAM on a GMC Yukon Denali. I have no idea. Initially when I saw it started with W and ended with AM, I was thinking a radio station’s call letters. But this is too many letters for that. Maybe something like “Winston family”?
SUBEEWU on a Subaru. I assume this one is self explanatory.
EIRE⎵ESQ on a FL standard plate on a Honda Pilot family wagon. A lawyer of Irish extraction? An Irish lawyer from Ireland who’s ex-pat retired to sunny FL after a long career in the dreeries? “Eire” might be their last name, but not as likely.
777⎵ONE on a FL standard plate on a new Bentley Continental sorta-sports car. Boeing 777 pilots are about the best paid in the industry, but they can’t afford Bentleys on their salary alone. 777 might also be a sly reference to slot machines or gambling in general, with the ONE meaning “won”, not “1”. Or the car belongs to somebody high up in the gaming industry. Or … ???
CBS⎵TV on a FL standard plate on a new-ish Mercedes E-class. They own or manage the local CBS affiliate? They’re an on-air personality? They just work there?
SP4⎵RKI on a FL standard plate on a Tesla Model S. Presumably the more conventional spellings of “sparky” were already taken.
LUVSYL on a NY Bluebird Environmental plate. NY picture plates like this allow only 6 characters. I’m assuming someone expressing their fondness for Sylvia, but it could be something else.
On a blue Chevy Equinox: FLOS V8. It helps to know I spotted this in Anaheim, California. Clearly a Cast Member’s car and a reference to Flo’s Cafe in Cars Land.
