This evening, heading home, eastbound on the “garnet” bridge, I spotted a specialty Fla. License Plate, the one with wild dolphins (not the Miami NFL) with the following combo of letters and numbers:
OP3AL
I didn’t catch the kind of car, it quickly passed me, as I was behind someone who thought the black numbers on the white and yellow signs actually have meaning.
Hi!
I think Opal’s based out of Northern Virginia, but you should’ve waved anyway.
Since I’m the third poster in this thread, it’s only appropriate that I say:
Hi Opal!
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Ok, I have to ask, since I am still but a newbie, what is with the Opal thing? It does not bug me at all, in fact I think it is funny. Is it an inside joke? And what is with “Hi opal?” always being #3? Just curious.
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Opalcat once posted that she hated lists with less than three things. Ever since then, whenever somebody makes a numbered list, #3 has usually been “Hi Opal”. Yes, it is an inside joke that originated way back in the AOL SDMB days.
Thank you, shadowfox. Most appreciated!
Yeh, I shoulda waved, but I was stuck behind Mr Slowpoke, and I’m afraid all my fingers may not have been extended. By the way, I didn’t think it was OPALCAT herself, but perhaps a fan. I know there’s at least one other Doper in the Jax Metro area … ok FCM, where were YOU at the time in question?
Once, here in RI, I saw a car with the vanity plate storytlr. But I think the poster’s name is Storytyler.
I saw a car with the vanity plate ‘FACIALS’ recently. I’m hoping the lady driving was in the beauty industry. 
Rose
hmmmm, well, I don’t have a specialty tag and I haven’t been across the garnet bridge in many many months… but there is an Opal Street between our house and my kid’s school. Every time I drive down that way, I have an almost uncontrollable urge to say hi…
If you’re looking to sight me, you’ll have better luck at NAS in Bldg 2.
HA! how cool
My car doesn’t have a vanity plate, but it does have the special “I’m Animal Friendly” design VA plate… and our car has a chrome thingie on it that says “http://fathom.org” so it’s pretty easy to tell that it’s me
Btw, the licence plate in that picture is the cardinal one, which was what we had before we got the animal friendly one. Just so you don’t call me a liar or sumfin.