Miasmatic Review

JST WRNG

Personalized license plates. It’s a trend that is getting more and more prevalent, at least in Illinois. I don’t see anything wrong with them in general; both of my vehicles have personalized plates on them. But I do wonder about what people are having put on them.

First I think there should some truth in advertising. If you have a plate that says “SEKSAY1”, then you damn well better be sexy. When the plate states “BABE 3” you had better either indeed be a babe, meaning your hot, under the age of 1 (although why you’d need to drive at that age is beyond me), or be a talking pig. When I see a plate that says “Too Hot 2” then you better look like some kind of super model, preferably a lingerie model and wearing your work clothes. I’m sure I’m not the only person that sees plates like that and checks out the driver to see if it’s true. I’ve seen these plates all in the last week. Let me just say that I was sorely disappointed by all three.

But that gets to my main point, why would you want to put things on your plates that really don’t shed a good light on you? Again in the last week I’ve seen plates that have said, “SPRFSHL” (Superficial), “AROGANT” (Arrogant), “EGOTIST” (Egotist) and “SELFISH” (Selfish). Yes I know, they were simple to figure out, but I just wanted to make sure you all got the point.

Why would anyone want to advertise these traits? Do they think other people will be in awe of them for being brutally honest? Perhaps they think it makes them cool. I don’t know. Hey, there’s nothing wrong with having any of those on your license plates, but I just don’t get why? It would be like me having the license plate, if I could, ARSHOLE. Sure I advertise it here, but that’s because anyone that comes here knows it. But I don’t need to be driving around with that on my truck. It’ll just single me out to cops and idiot drives.

So what is the weirdest or most misleading license plate you’ve seen?