Saturday, August 14, 2010

Connecticut

As many of you know I spend a lot of time in my car traveling from the Cape to Delaware. I have this problem of being too observant for my own good. One of the things I notice is license plates. Over the years Massachusetts has changed the format for our plates. They started out green, only the back plate was required. Around the time I got my license they changed to red plates, and two became the requirement, front and back. Three numbers and three letters turned into four numbers, two letters, turned into a mix. I think my favorite series are the M00 series. 123 M00 always brought a smile to my face. One good thing about Massachusetts is that we don't have temporary tags, when a car is registered you get real plates right away. Ah, the joy of having prisoners do something productive.
Some states have palm trees and crescent moons, some have sports teams, others have NASCAR drivers; I've seen NY go back to the original yellow/orange, there's the ever popular NJ yellow plates that you see as the drivers either go flying by you or cut you off; the Virginia drivers you can always witness on the side of the highway with the red and blue flashing lights behind them. Ontario will be the one in the slow lane reading the map as driving.
If you've ever traveled through Connecticut, though, I think they take the cake. What other state would let 123 WTF pass the test? I don't know wtf they were thinking, but it's always good for a laugh!

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