It's my belief that it's only polite to affix an explanatory license plate holder around an ambiguous license plate. If I can't decipher your jumbled, vowel-free catchphrase at a glance, your money has been wasted. In high school, my license plates said GO BARB. No explanation needed, although there was a story behind it.
But just because you can make out the words, doesn't mean you can make out the meaning behind them. Take this plate I saw yesterday. I was in the parking lot of IKEA when I happened across a Honda minivan with the following plates: BOY MOM, but the "O" in MOM had been replaced with one of those blue heart symbols.
This one definitely requires an explanation. I can understand a "boy" loving his mother, but once you're old enough to be driving a minivan, chances are you have kids of your own (why else would you drive a minivan), which makes it a little weird for you to still be a mama's boy. Say you're the mom, in which case this should read MOM BOY, like "mom loves her boy." Or, maybe this is a Modern Family. Okay, let's go with that for a second. The Mom IS a Boy. Mr. Mom, perhaps. Still doesn't make sense, because of that damn heart in the middle of MOM. I'm at a loss. If you know the person who owns these plates, please seek an explanation for me. Because all of my interpretations are weird and creepy.
It's my belief that it's only polite to affix an explanatory license plate holder around an ambiguous license plate. If I can't decipher your jumbled, vowel-free catchphrase at a glance, your money has been wasted. In high school, my license plates said GO BARB. No explanation needed, although there was a story behind it.
But just because you can make out the words, doesn't mean you can make out the meaning behind them. Take this plate I saw yesterday. I was in the parking lot of IKEA when I happened across a Honda minivan with the following plates: BOY MOM, but the "O" in MOM had been replaced with one of those blue heart symbols.
This one definitely requires an explanation. I can understand a "boy" loving his mother, but once you're old enough to be driving a minivan, chances are you have kids of your own (why else would you drive a minivan), which makes it a little weird for you to still be a mama's boy. Say you're the mom, in which case this should read MOM BOY, like "mom loves her boy." Or, maybe this is a Modern Family. Okay, let's go with that for a second. The Mom IS a Boy. Mr. Mom, perhaps. Still doesn't make sense, because of that damn heart in the middle of MOM. I'm at a loss. If you know the person who owns these plates, please seek an explanation for me. Because all of my interpretations are weird and creepy.