Today, leaving my dentist appt I saw a pretty yet still sensible Lexus sedan with 2U ALOHA. On a Nebraska plate on a Nebraska car smack dab in the middle of….Nebraska. Still is a nice thought and made me smile.
Last week saw PAGTRNR on a sleek Suburu Outback much newer than mine outside of an orthopedic surgeons office. When the driver came out I couldn’t resist rolling down my window and asking her “author or reader?”. She answered back “librarian”. I flashed her a thumbs up and a big smile and yelled back “even better!”.
“Qui” being “who” in both French and Spanish, it could be a reference to that, but “Who Who” may be something that only makes sense to them. Alternately, it could belong to someone named Kiki or Keke.
Today I saw a Chevrolet Tahoe SUV with one of the FL plate backgrounds that only permit a 5-character ID. Theirs was CH1VY.
What interested me was that four letters + one number in some position is the standard for those 5-character plates. I’ve seen the number in each of the 5 positions.
Which leads me to wonder if this person was by insane good luck issued a plate that matched their car, or they bought that car to match their existing plate, or what. I’d be surprised if the state would hand out personalized plates whose contents fit neatly into the sequence of ordinary plates they’d be issuing later anyhow.
Also saw a woman driving a car with Massachusetts plates with ERYN.
I was not expecting to see the PSA’s DONT␣TXT nor WHY␣HATE. The plate with CAT␣FUD on it did have the picture of two birds, so maybe they weren’t referring to themselves. I think it likely thought that 2DAHOOP is probably watching, or at least following, March Madness.
For the benefit of those who don’t recognize the reference – assuming that that says “S TIER” (it’s a bit blurry) – it’s a term (S-tier), originally from video gaming, for the top rank or “best of the best” in characters, equipment, etc.
Yeah. I fatfingered something on my phone when I tried to take the pic today and couldn’t get it to zoom properly, it ended up blurry. Interestingly, they had a dash there in between the S and T; I don’t know if that is something you can request on VA plates, or if that was an unauthorized alteration.
I saw XRYEYES. Possibly a co-worker of a husband and wife I know that have IDOXRA and IDOXRA2.
A friend of mine owns a huge produce distribution company that focuses mainly on tomatoes. Back in the 80’s, his plate was TOM8TO ad his wife had TOM8TO2.
This is one of those “How did this get past the DMV?” things.
SHARTS
You don’t even have to go to Urban Dictionary for that one. Here’s Mirriam-Webster. (It was really popular in the late 1800s. Googling it also gives suggested treatments.)
Having the final “S” suggests that maybe someone had already grabbed the sans-“S” one.
Generic car w standard FL plate MAVIK⎵3. The “Mavic 3” (note spelling) is a popular drone. Perhaps that’s the meaning?
Generic car w standard FL plate BWINTZ. I got nuthin.
Generic car w out of state plate JAN3-DA. Still no clue.
And the best of all. Not a custom plate but a standard issue FL sequential plate which are now of the format ABC⎵D12. This person had the amazing good luck to draw NSF⎵W34. Hint: read it as “NSFW 34” instead.
Saw a 4-door Jeep Wrangler with NC plates with VRYFEWW. I did not get a good look at the driver. At first I was baffled, but I just had an inspiration while typing.
Wiki tells me that Camp Lejeune is in NC. And is home to the Marine Raider Regiment and the Marine Corps Special Operations Command.
Perhaps a current or former member of some elite category of US Marine? Not merely one of the few and proud, but one of the very few and very proud? But not so few that somebody else didn’t beat him(?) to getting VERYFEW
