I have a friend who has a state-issued license place that isn’t funny in and of itself, but she is SO annoyed – the first car she ever bought new for herself, and what do the letters on her license plate say? PUQ.
There’s also the story of the court reporter in California who drove around for over ten years with vanity plates that read TPUBG before someone who could read steno shorthand notified the state that that’s steno shorthand for FUK. She then claimed it was supposed to be a shorthand-type abbreviation for the phrase “if you can.” Riiiiiight.
I’ve been thinking for years of getting my usename as a vanity plate. (It would work best if I drove a '69 Camaro ) But I have been informed in another thread that people who aren’t familiar with Hendrix thought if6was9 was a sexual reference…
A couple years ago I saw a guy go past and his plate was AGRIV8D. I thought “Hmm, maybe he gets road rage”.
Then I saw a lady drive by with AGRIV8R.
I had a car that my (then)father-in-law (God bless him he was only trying to help) gave us. A Renault Le Car. I hated that car from dead on sight. I wanted LE RAG plates but my (now Ex)wife would only allow LE TAG. Only vanity plate I ever, or will ever have, had.
I had non-vanity plates that read BL04YU. People assumed I was a whore, and hubby was a coke dealer. We got honked at a lot. I thought it was funny. Then I saw a story where a local girl got BL04SX. She raised hell at the BMV and got new plates free. Hubby traded ours in before I got a picture.
I didn’t find a Snopes article to confirm or deny this account, but I did learn that a clerical misunderstanding caused a California man to receive tags reading NO PLATE. Frustration ensued.
) But I have been informed in another thread that people who aren’t familiar with Hendrix thought if6was9 was a sexual reference…