We’ve talked about license plates before in these here blogs. Here, and here, and here, and again here, and also briefly here and here.
We HEART license plates!
A reader from Ohio submitted this link to a news story about some potentially offensive license plate combinations, to which I say, “Your tax dollars at work.”
This reminded me of a story I like to tell about the time a few years back when Ohio switched to the new 2 letter-2 number-2 letter combination they have now. There was one of those “Hey Howard!” segments on sometime in the following year. It seems that a young lady was given a plate that read “BL04SX”. Now, she tried right then to get the DMV people to give her a different one and they wouldn’t, flat out refusing in the way that DMV clerks are wont to do, so the young lady put the plate on her car and drove around for a month, during which time she said people were constantly honking at her. So she called Howard Ain, and he went over to the DMV and busted some bawlz, like he do, and badda-bing, badda-boom, lady gets a new license plate. Problem solved.
I love telling the story in person because I always finish it with, “I can just picture the convict who pulled the lever on that plate, going ‘Heh, heh, heh’” while I pantomime the lever being pulled.
I hate mimes.
That is too hilarious. I would love to have that plate.
ReplyDeleteI want to request a WTF license plate this November.
ReplyDeleteDo you have readers from outside Ohio?
ReplyDeleteAnd Indiana doesn't count.
Nor Covington.
FUN STORY! It was fun to look back on all those old blogy posts!!!
ReplyDeleteHeidi - I heard on NPR (maybe you did too) that some state (argh, I don't remember which) was giving new plates for people who accidentally got WTF plates. awesome.