Last night, I stayed at motel and parking was limited and they wanted to know the license plate on my car. I used to know, but a couple of years ago, Missouri gave out new plates and I never bothered to remember the new number. I figured with pin numbers, SS #, passwords, that something trivial had to be sacrificed. So an inquiring mind wants to know, do you know your license plate number on the car you drive most?
Yes. In fact I think I can remember the license plates from every car I’ve ever owned. To be fair there have only been 5, but 2 had license plates from 2 states.
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I used to know mine and my parents’ (theirs were halfway vanity or something) but now I just know the first 3 letters of mine. And that the numbers rhyme with it (EJE…something something three)
I voted that I don’t know mine but I know my spouse’s. The first part of my plate number is easy enough, but then I mix up the second part with my first license plate. The mnemonic devices get crossed somehow. My husband’s plate number is much easier to remember.
ETA: Before Michigan made the majority of people get new license plates, I knew part of my grandpa’s license plate because the letters were XXX. That always made me laugh.
I know all three of our vehicles’ plate numbers, but they’re all vanity plates.
However, even if they weren’t I would still know them. I see all alphanumerics as “words” and easily remember them. Heck, I even remember some of my co-workers’ plates from 15 years ago. I also know my and Mr. S’s driver’s license numbers (14 characters in WI) and SSNs.
I don’t own a car, so when I’m driving it’s almost* always a rented vehicle. I have no idea what the number plate is for any given car.
- In fact, at the moment I have my brother-in-law’s car while he’s overseas. However, I’ve had to write the number plate on the back of the car keys, so that I can find the car when I’ve left it in a carpark.
I have had vanity plates on all my vehicles for the past 17 years, and have only had 4 vehicles in all that time (including the past 12 years when we’ve been a 2-car family). But I also still remember the plates on my first car - which I got 20 years ago - the only one I didn’t have vanity plates on. New Jersey HPS-82M, when I lived in Jersey for 20 months and needed a car for the first time. (“Hips eighty-two’em”.)
I voted that I know the plate number but still, after 5 years, I have to stop and think and forcefully discard my previous plate from my head before I can remember this one.
Oddly I only had that plate for 3 years.
Yes, I know both mine and my husband’s (which is actually sitting in front of me at the moment, given as it’s in transition between two cars… new car arrives tomorrow!)
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I have no idea what the plate number is on either of the cars we have now (one we bought about a year ago, and the other just a couple month ago). I do remember the number of my first car, though: 462 JBV It was a '73 Plymouth Satellite
My husband drives a car from work, and I don’t remember the plate. I know mine, the other car we have, and my daughter’s.
I don’t know. I know that I have an Arizona Cardinals license plates and I have plenty of pictures of the plates on my phone.
By knowing my own plate, my spouse’s is easy because it’s only one digit different. We got them both at the same time when we moved to this state.
10 cars, 6 bikes, know them all.
Yep. The second half is CFS, which for some reason is easy because I think of Cubic Feet per Second, the standard measure for water flowing past a dam. And for some reason that makes it possible to remember the first three numbers.
Yes. I have a very common car in a very common color and knowing the plate number helps me find it among all the other similar cars in the parking lot without having to circle around it like a creep, peering in the back windows to see if there’s familiar crap on the backseat.
I wrote the plate number down in my owners manual and I have it on a slip of paper in my wallet. Just in case the car gets towed or stolen. I can give the plate number to the cops.
Beyond that. I have no clue what the plate number is. It’s not a number I ever use or think about.
I have a lousy memory for numbers, so I don’t remember mine. I could probably remember randomly assigned letters better than numbers, but probably not much better.