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The Prowler
Is it just the Prowler, or does the approach of spring seem to bring an increase in the car driver's equivalent of cabin fever? As for personalized license plates--those remains quirky throughout the year.
Incidentally, the DMV reports that after a four-year decline, "vanity plate" sales in California went up in 1998. Currently, some 800,000 residents sport their own plates. This cat also learned that plate revenues benefit the California Environmental License Plate Fund, which has raised more than $500 million for environmental programs since its 1970 inception.
What more appropriate segue into a column on license plates than with LICNSPL, spotted on Highway 85? The Prowler thinks this driver is the type to see a spade and call it a spade. The same goes for the person driving a gray car appropriately labeled GRAYCAR. Speaking of forthright, the Prowler meowed out loud after seeing 1 5150JX on a coupe speeding down Highway 17. In copspeak, 5150 means "crazy," while J means "juvenile" and X designates a female. Draw your own conclusions about the driver.
Is the driver of XSTDMFN, a British luxury car, remorseful he's past his heyday? The driver of MADWMN is apparently upset about something, or perhaps she's just 5150! Then there's EXTRMST, a green German import whose driver offers a hint about her nature.
The driver of another fancy import probably got asked questions so often that he or she had to put the answer on a plate: SIESMIO. In Spanish, si es mio means "yes it's mine." The driver of the sportscar MEWONIT is also one step ahead of questioners, albeit with grammar befitting Sesame Street's googlie-eyed Cookie Monster.
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Los Gatos, California Since 1881
