Personalized License Plates
Kinda funny. A couple of incidents in traffic recently that I would have never thought much of other than regular stupidity that were made a bit funny because of personalized license plates. First up, is the Prius with the plate that said, and I am not making this up, 1LESSUV. Trouble is, this guy was in the left hand lane going slow beside another car and had traffic backed up as far as I could see. So, in his honor, I made sure to rev the engine while behind him to waste all the gas he was saving. And then I got home and poured a gallon of diesel fuel into some wetlands.
Up next was the Corvette with the plate that read TCBQUIK, which I presume was Taking Care of Business Quick. Except that this guy was doing less than the speed limit and driving like a granny. If you have a Corvette, you’re supposed to drive it like you fucking stole it. I mean, if I was driving one, that’s how I’d drive it. Because if I was driving it, I probably did steal it. Or someone loaned it to me. Which, if you have a Corvette, you should never loan it to me because I will be driving it like I stole it. It’s a Corvette, ferchrissakes. It wants to go fast. It’s made for it (by commies, but that’s another story) and who are you to deny it that?
August 13th, 2010 at 10:32 am
In virginia there is a lawyers vanity that reads
“It was me”
August 13th, 2010 at 11:49 am
I hate the smug bastards in the Prius'(Priui?). Especially the ones that hate people driving SUVs and the like. We have a CRV, not really an SUV, more like a big boxy station wagon, but I always make sure to park next to a Prius if I can. I just hope it infuriates them when they see me parked next to them. I’m also hoping the Air Force sticker that’s now on the back window helps even more.
August 13th, 2010 at 11:55 am
I have seen a growing number of close-in parking spaces here in Austin with signs designating them for use only by fuel efficient or hybrid cars. I pull my 10-year old pickup truck into those spaces on the basis that I have saved the world quite a lot of energy by not buying a new truck.
August 13th, 2010 at 12:01 pm
“Drive it like you stole it”. I have never understood that term. If I stole a car, I would drive it in the most law-abiding manner possible so as to attract as little attention as possible. Now, if I were spotted in the stolen car, THAT’S when I would drive it fast.
Wouldn’t, then, it be better to say “Drive it like you got caught stealing it”???
😉
August 13th, 2010 at 12:13 pm
I have Army plates on one and Paratrooper plates on the other.
August 13th, 2010 at 4:03 pm
There’s nothing I hate more than some midlife crisis having mother fucker blocking the passing lane with an overpriced sports car that he insists on driving like an old woman in an old Honda Civic.
August 13th, 2010 at 5:24 pm
I once worked for a company and was in charge of the fleet of vehicles, including the boss’s Corvette. You can bet that every time I took it for an oil change, I used a rather circuitous route and always saw how fast I could get going on the on ramp.
August 13th, 2010 at 7:56 pm
Corvettes are notorious for having no road-holding ability. The poor guy probably spun out in a light rain and got a permanent flinch. 😉
August 13th, 2010 at 10:07 pm
Years ago, a saw a beautiful Jaguar XKE in the lot where I worked, with plates that read, “I ROAR”.
Saw a blonde in a little red convertible down South with plates that said, “NOWSNGL”.
And, once saw a pic of a FL license plate, “A55 RGY” (You have to picture this with the logo of a big, round Florida orange right in the middle…)
August 14th, 2010 at 1:57 am
Like mikee I have seen parking spaces in front of a Best Buy in Waynesville, NC for use only by fuel efficient or hybrid cars and always park my pickup in them because, after all, it uses less gas than say a Hummer. One day I hope to own a big military “deuce and a half” (M35 2.5 ton troop carrier) that gets about 8-10 mpg just so I can park in those spots; I actually intend to take up at least two such spots when parking it. Let the eco hippies weep!
August 14th, 2010 at 3:31 am
I like to park next to the eco cars with my F-250 diesel and lock it up with the engine running.
Keeps the air/heat on and marks my footprint.