Personalizing The Backend

For quite some time now I've been interested in a personalized license plate. I've gone so far as to visit the .gov website & see what fun I could make of my hobbies or other fun phrases & words in order to have something other than the drab randomness of that which had been randomly assigned to a vehicle my parents' had years ago.

To explain that further, once I was able to drive & on my way with all of the independence that goes along with it, the vehicle which I drove happened to essentially be a third vehicle in my parents' household. As the younger sibling, no one else needed a spare vehicle once I had graduated from college & therefore that third household vehicle remained mine. I ultimately turned it in for what became what has been my only "brand new vehicle" purchase (rather than all of the rest which are "new to me, certified used vehicle" purchases), & with that simply transferring the already existing license plate.

It's an obvious old plate as it looks to have been through too much (& trust me, I do no off-roading 😂). The decrepitness of my vehicle's plate in no way relates to my long-standing desire to personalize a plate for my vehicle's back bumper; it's mere coincidence!

The first time I saw a plate which read "I Pass Gas" I burst out laughing. I was being driven home by a former boss from a work party & that boss happened to once-upon-a-time live on the same street where I was then living. We were about a mile's drive from my house, at a somewhat major intersection & this vehicle was turning away from the same street where we remained. I couldn't see it anymore as I chuckled. My at-the-time boss laughed at it too, adding that he'd seen it before & the state just south of us as where it originated.

I've since learned that, as long as no one in your same state has selected your preferred personalization (& at this point, there's someone in this state that does have "I Pass Gas" on their plate as well), & as long as it's not "inappropriate" (I'm guessing slang & vulgar are what they rule out), then there's a good chance that - for under $100, you can have "his" & "her" initials donning your vehicle's backside! Just what you've always wanted, eh?

Definitely not me!!! 😄 In fact, I can't figure out why anyone would wish to have ALF CMF (so I just named this fictional couple Albert Lee Fisher & Carol Marie Fisher 😎). I mean no disrespect. I also don't wish to have my last name on a front door mat, yard sign, or my mailbox. And on, I believe, just about any license plate, it'd be completely obvious that it's his initials preceding her initials. Not that I'm a feminist (I'll let you decide your thoughts on that from reading any of these posts), however it's an unqualified standard.

On a lighter note, a fun one that I remember seeing in a church parking lot I frequented: ANT EEK (Get it?: Antique) If memory serves, that vehicle belonged to an older woman who epitomized volunteering & supported all that made that church, Church. She essentially lived at church & no one actually knew where her home address was to be. In fact, I wrote her a "Thank you" card for her support of something for myself & a small group. A friend working in the church's office ultimately dropped it in her mail slot located there.


In any case I've played around with plenty of options, yet most of what I come up with is too long or simply doesn't make enough sense in any shortened form for the seven or eight characters I'm able to shift around. Combining running & yarn has been a top option, yet YARN RUN has a much different meaning than what I'd be intending. 😂😏😄


In this great populated city where I live sports are a dear love. I've never been one to follow the sports. I joke that if I find myself with insomnia, then a sporting event would be a grand way to relieve my ail. 💤

At the same time, & I suppose gratefully so, I'm in the general minority on this quality. Most everyone around is proud to have something like this. Probably because it costs so much less & is much more available than personalizing a license plate! Especially with only so many possible alterations to the team names & colors before it would just appear, well, eye-roll-worthy. Besides, & here I am stereotyping my life-long hometown, I'm not sure most of the die-hard-ers would figure out to make use of the .gov site & step up their back bumper that extra bit.

 So I've had this, which is a magnet & is one step closer 😂 in my humble opinion, to personalizing my back bumper. While completing my double marathons (Saturday, 26.2, Sunday, 26.2) mid-Spring, I picked up another magnet in a goodie-bag, one like this (just 26.2), so I added it opposite my original magnet. Then I had a "light bulb moment" & realized that maybe I should a relatable plate frame to balance out these magnets - although in much the same light as, well, "unconfusing the 'huh?' of 'Yarn Run'." And so I found this.

Now yes there is a strong chance that, while in wait for "just the right letters" to creatively (no, Creative is also already taken too 😂) sparkle in my mind, I may, I just might, contently pacify myself with this, or something quite like it. And it's blue too. 😍

It's not just the old folks who concern themselves with where they've parked in the shopping center's lot; I've all these "labels" donning my backend & I've a chain of crocheting wrapped around my rear view mirror to clue me in from that end. And someday a personalized plate will be mine entitling me to skim back bumpers in a whole new way (even though I prefer everything about a "pull through"! 😜

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