Interestingly, I learned that as I was looking for the picture. It’s from a wiki page and I happened to see that term there. I also learned this different terms for different patterns.
Wiki goes into more detail about what the different shapes/styles mean.
I also saw a mention of different colors, but that’s a rabbit hole I didn’t feel like going down right now.
I started out by seeing a good suggestion at the beginning of the day B⎵SANE, and then I saw the doctor is trying, with limited success to be subtle in their T&RD1S minivan. And there was a cute puppy design on the R3SCU license plate.
And those truncated dome pads / city titties / tactile paving are a PITA and are more trouble than they’re worth. A local company replaced their parking lot and were required by their city to put that tactile paving at its edges.
They put them in to pass inspection but they’re talking about eventually ripping them out. They were installed less than a year ago and the edges of those yellow pads are coming up and are a tripping hazard.
I’ve never seen a proper plate that was properly installed come up. There are cheap plates that don’t have good anchors. And if you were planning to take them up, you might not include the anchors.
They are annoying to run a shopping cart over. Especially the long parking lot ones.
In a single row in a large strip center parking lot I found 3 (plus my own ) …
A nondescript car w a standard FL plate background reading DATA ⎵MN1. “Data man” or “data mine(r)”?
Another nondescript car w a standard FL plate background reading ⎵LA⎵⎵CA1. Apparently someone from greater Los Angeles like myself. Or maybe not.
Yet another nondescript car w a standard FL plate background reading M⎵⎵ND⎵⎵MS. Someone named M from North Dakota & Mississippi? That one has me baffled.
On the drive home from that parking lot I found a late model Kia SUV with GLAUCIA. Which word I didn’t recognize, and assumed the plate was a Latino or perhaps Italian last name. Which it might well be; we have plenty of both ethnicities living around here…
But Googling taught me these new things, which might be a much more interesting backstory to their plate. Especially the illegal candidate part.
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A bit later on that same drive home I came upon a 4-door Jeep with the Miami Heat NBA team plate background. Those plates only hold 5 characters and theirs was 4ENIX. That’s not a standard pattern AFAIK so I think it’s a personal plate. A variation on “Phoenix” or “freak+Phoenix” or … ??? Maybe a reference to the “phrenics” part of “schizophrenics”. There’s also the brain structure called the “fornix”, but although it’s real important to normal brain function, it’s a pretty weird choice for a license plate.
I saw a veteran’s tag today. He either had been awarded 2 bronze stars or a silver and a bronze star. It was hard to tell because the entire plate was partially obscured by a lift for a medical scooter.
I guess these days it is important to advertise your skills like AWS⎵PRO is doing. I was a little wary of getting too close to TK8FLT in case they really did, because that would like mean we were going over a cliff.
Saw a couple yesterday whilst out running errands/Christmas shopping:
On a Jeep Wrangler, I think - “TAPOUT” - obviously a wrestling or MMA fan
On a Chevy of some kind - “NRS EMY” - assuming a medical professional
Bought a Chevy Bolt last week. When I get the title/registration in my hands, going to order custom plate “CHRG”. “CHARGE”, “CH4RGE”, and “CHRGD” are already taken.
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