Moo! The Musings of a Plaid Cow

From the fine people at traffic.com after the snow this afternoon:

A fond remembrance to license plates past:

Who am I?

IAM-ME

NONE-4U

City hall closes at 4pm on Fridays. The good news is that I made it to city hall before 4pm. The bad news is that 4pm comes early at city hall. And as one employee told me, “especially on Fridays”.

On a recent trip to Alabama I realized that people around Huntsville seem to like vanity plates almost as much as people around here. SPD DIVA flew past me on the interstate. N2WOOD was wrapped around a tree. (Actually just on the way to Home Depot.) And B ANURSE was flying on the way to the hospital. The speed limit of 70 though down town was definitely interesting.

Living in New Hampshire has been an interesting experience for the last five years. One of those interesting things is the state motto: Live Free or Die. This motto is expressed succinctly on the front of all AAA TripTiks: “Seatbelts required in all states and provinces (except New Hampshire)”

A few weeks ago I left work early to go to a dinner. On the way back down to the Massachusetts border, we notice heavy traffic, which is not unusual for the time of day. we later found out that earlier in the day (about an hour after I went though), a man driving an SUV didn’t see that the traffic was stopping and ran into the back of another car. About a mile into the Granite State, he took the motto to heart: he was not wearing his seatbelt, was ejected through the windshield and died at the scene.

Live Free or Die.

At least there are still license plates:

• FNDHER - Either he lost someone special or he’s an over the top fan of the Macintosh operating environment.
• REJUVN8 - Feeling better already
• JEDINT - Even out in the daytime
• PRFCHSN - If you figure it out let me know. I’m not sure.

Though people are wont to disparage the cost of gas, that doesn’t seem to stop people from taking the random Sunday drive. If the cost of gasoline is not high enough to make us change our habits, quit complaining. While out on a recent “Sunday Drive” we were followed by “BAJA GRL” in her bright yellow Subaru. The, roaring into the mall, we saw a guy with “EL1SE” on the plate of his Lotus Elise. (This is the first time that I can ever recall seeing one on the road.)

Question: How long is your daily commute?

My commute is about 30 miles, which usually translates to 35 to 75 minutes.

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