Vanity Plates

I am the biggest advocate for Vanity Plates - especially in NH because it is so cheap. I have always had them. My first car was K8T-M - LOVED IT. I had come up with K8T in middle school and thought I was rad to the max.

My parents have always had vanity plates as well. On one car was MILLS and the other car was +MILLS... So, when they parked in the driveway it was say MILLS+MILLS... Aw, how cute... When I got old enough I should have gotten =4MILLS (get it? In parking in the driveway it would say MILLS+MILLS=4MILLS - THAT'S A LAUGH RIOT). When I got to college, my friends just started calling me MILLS (because I lived with two other Katie's). So, when I got a newer vehicle (other than my '82 Ford Escort, self proclaimed sport coup) I got &Mills on my license plate. So, when I would come home to visit and park in the drive way it would say MILLS+MILLS&MILLS. We are so effing creative... Interestingly enough my dad has kept the old plates (when NH upgraded their boring plates to have the Man in the Mountain on them) and over the garage doors he has each parking stall labeled with the old plates... Hehehehe.

The point of this blog is that while driving to work the other day I saw an ugly, toaster looking Scion that had a vanity plate that read J+J4eva. I NEARLY vomitted in my mouth a little when I read that. I thought to myself, "Really? Do they really think 4eva exists"? Is it like a tattoo? Like the minute you get someone's name tattooed on you, it is like a death sentence for the relationship; a count down to its demise?

I can speak from experience on this. In 2003, I went to AutoServ of Concord. My 1994 White Chevy Cavalier (which was a Lexus in comparison to the '82 Ford Escort) was just falling apart. I heard the ads for KIA "Do you have a job? Do you have $199?" so I went to get one, anything was better than the Cavalier. Well, all the Kias they had were junk (and in the long run I learned ALL KIAS are JUNK, but that's a story for another day) so the salesman showed me a USED 2002 Kia Optima. Long story short, I bought it (and am still paying for it along w/ my PT CRUISER).

When I bought the Kia I was seriously dating a guy. We were living together, we were moving to Kittery together and renting a HOUSE together. This was the most serious I had ever been in a relationship. What did I do to show my undying love and affection for this guy? I got KEVSGRL on my license plate.... I remember having the conversation with him telling him I had a surprise for him and I told him I was doing it to show the world I was his girl... He said that he wasn't asking me to do it but he appreciated it.

Well, when the whole relationship when to shit, I still had to drive around with that damn license plate! So, I wonder if J+J4eva really put any thought into how long 4eva is... Maybe 4eva means just until the next registration period on that ugly Scion?

(SIDE BAR: I wanted to say that I still have a vanity plate, the previous KEVSGRL decision didn't get me to forget my love of all plates vanity. Mine currently says MI11SIE (which you wouldn't believe causes so many questions... MY elevensies? My onesies? IT'S MILLSIE FOR CHRIST'S SAKE, ever heard of creativity?) My sister has a vanity plate as well MILLZ (it could be just plain Mills or Millsie too)... We rock the vanity plates in good ole NH.)