Private number plate

motorguy

AdrianC said:

Richard53 said:

A few years ago, I bought number plates for my wife and myself - both had a single letter, a single number and our initials. As a gift, it was a bit more fun than a kitchen gadget, and it pleased us both. In the end, I got fed up of the bureaucracy and cost of changing vehicles and I let mine go with the last car I sold. She has kept hers, loves it, and will pass it on to someone else in her family (there are a couple with the same initials) after her day.

Neither of us could be described as vain in the slightest.

Except for loving having your initials on display to everybody who sees that car. And paying for the pleasure.

Oh the humanity of it!  Rubbing peoples noses in their wealth by having them see their initials on their reg!  Making their neighbours endure it every day!  

Their neighbours must be in awe because they can afford the £250 for a "vanity" plate and they cant.

And "loving"???  Seriously? 

Heres a thought - cant just be something they did between them, for themselves?  

Richard53

Heh. 'Loving' is in reality 'being mildly amused by'.

onlyfoolsandparking

I've just had a look at the plate which represents my name perfectly and YIPPEE!!!!! it's available, unfortunately it's 850K, think I'll leave it till next year   

Grumpy_chap

motorguy said

Rubbing peoples noses in their wealth by having them see their initials on their reg! 

I know someone who has their initials plus month and year of birth.

I assume it is because they are getting on a bit and forget more readily so need a bit of a memory jogger from time to time.

dipsomaniac

According to wiki PEN15 wasn't withdrawn🙂

AdrianC

Richard53 said:

Heh. 'Loving' is in reality 'being mildly amused by'.

Your choice of word...

motorguy

AdrianC said:

Richard53 said:

Heh. 'Loving' is in reality 'being mildly amused by'.

Your choice of word...

Actually it was your choice of word - "Except for loving having your initials on display to everybody who sees that car."

Manxman_in_exile

It always strikes me as being the same as wearing monogrammed shirts...

A bit... strange...

Grumpy_chap

motorguy said:

AdrianC said:

Richard53 said:

Heh. 'Loving' is in reality 'being mildly amused by'.

Your choice of word...

Actually it was your choice of word - "Except for loving having your initials on display to everybody who sees that car."

This seems to be the first introduction of the verb "love" into the thread:

Richard53 said:

A few years ago, I bought number plates for my wife and myself - both had a single letter, a single number and our initials. As a gift, it was a bit more fun than a kitchen gadget, and it pleased us both. In the end, I got fed up of the bureaucracy and cost of changing vehicles and I let mine go with the last car I sold. She has kept hers, loves it, and will pass it on to someone else in her family (there are a couple with the same initials) after her day.

Neither of us could be described as vain in the slightest. The purchase was a bit of fun and it made us smile, especially when we parked together. Locally, plates with the old local identifying letters are popular with people who love the county. A local bed business has D1VAN - great business promotion. A local lorry fleet has the firm's initials and sequential numbers - identifiable by the public and presumably makes tracking the fleet a bit simpler. Some are amusing - the white BMW I saw with M5 MAD, or the JLR promotional vehicle with B16 CAT. None of these have anything to do with vanity, in my opinion. The only plate I have seen which seemed genuinely vain was RH14NON on a pink Bentley, owned by one of the directors of Trade Centre Wales, whose name I am sure you can guess.

Ascribing one motive (vanity) to something which a lot of people do for a lot of different reasons is perhaps more revealing of the person who says it than the rest of us.

Richard53

To be precise, I did use the word 'love' in connection with my wife's reaction. I never used it about my own feelings. In the context of a general and light-hearted discussion, does it matter anyway?

Jeez.