All right, so as “followers” of my blog (gosh I feel popular) you know that I live in Big Sky Country. And there are many fine things to recommend it—lovely wheat fields, nice folks and generally clean air (unless the sugar beet factory is running or some acreage has fallen susceptible to a wildfire). It’s also, for those of you who haven’t visited, home to the biggest variety of license plates this side of…well…everything.
It’s true. I think that there are something like 58 different license plate designs from which you can choose promoting everything from your alma mater to you favorite past time (yes, there is one for quilters). And as if that isn’t bad enough, it’s also ridiculously cheap to get personalized plates and virtually everyone has one—including my dear husband, whose Cadillac bears the plate “LNDYCHT”.
Now some of them are rather humorous; my friend Ginger, for instance, has plates that say GOB4ULV…as the mother of 5 it makes good sense, too. (They wouldn’t let her have PB4ULV at the DMV.) And I have no problem when people use that kind of humor on their plates.
But for some unknown reason, about every other personalized plate bears some sort of bible verse reference. In fact, I’m starting to think that there’s not a verse in the New Testament that doesn’t have its own Montana license plate and that some are starting to make up their own books. Or there’s the ever so clever “MEANDJC”, “PRY2GOD”, “IBLIEVE” etc. etc. etc.
Hopefully everyone reading this knows that I’m a Christian, that I pray, and that I’m a fan of the scriptures. But seriously—do I need to have it on my license plate? And what really drives me el-nutso is that these are generally the people, along with the “God is my Co-Pilot” folks, not only most likely to suffer from bad driving, road rage and middle-finger issues but also to have their cars dinged from who knows how many accidents.
I think I’m going to get personalized plates that say JULIE1:2 which, if you’ll look it up means “be thou not so stupid as to think thyself so holy that thou needest to advertise it on thy license plates when really thou art a bad-driving dork.”
So…can anyone guess what’s happened to me on a recent commute? Hmmmmm…..
5 comments:
Ok Im the moron that drives behind these people and almost rear ends them because Im trying to figure out what the crap their plate says. So, I have to ask, what the crap does LNDYCHT mean?
I'm so sorry for your recent, uhmm, "experience" with the bible thumpers. I am, however, grateful that it has broken the vow of silence you had apparently made after the Sunday Drive and Death March. All I can say is "Welcome home, Julie, welcome home."
Guess I should have explained about Dave's plates. He has them on his '68 Cadillac Fleetwood, a car of truly seaworthy proportions. Hence, we affectionately refer to it as the"Land Yacht".
Okay I am glad you answered Shannon's question, because I was thinking the same thing. Julie you are hilarious!! What else can I say. I love reading what you post!!
Ooohhhh! Now when Im driving behind him I wont rear end him. Well, I probably wont ever be driving behind him - but still good to know.
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