As you know, I am easily amused, and one of my
sources of entertainment is vanity plates—what people choose to proclaim via
the semi-permanent mechanism of their vehicle’s license plates is endlessly
fascinating to me. Such things are ongoing expenses: $10 to buy the plate from
the DMV; then $10 per year for as long as you still want it.
It’s more permanent than a bumper sticker; less
permanent than a tattoo.
So here’s one I find really interesting:
First, there’s the fox-hunting plate. Here’s
someone proudly proclaiming that they’re down with a quintessentially elitist
activity that can only be engaged in by people with much too much money and
time, the practice of which is inordinately destructive of farmland all out of
proportion to the keeping down of vermin. I mean, if The Old Dominion has a fox
problem, having overbred elements in ridiculously-overpriced outfits that can
only be worn for this pursuit, riding crash around across fields on heavy
hunters would not be an efficient solution.
But then there’s the vanity part of this plate.
Some Honda owner, whose priorities have already been called into question, is driving a
stake in the ground at Oracle SQL. And is paying $10 every year to do this.
Fascinating.
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