Personalised number plates. More. Why do people do it? Do they want everyone to “know who they are”?

What is it about these people? Do they want to be politicians or slebs or summat? I mean, the stuff isn’t even on very good cars here. You could forgive, I suppose, 26L on your girlfriend’s Bentley convertible, or 41JB on your own Range Rover deluxe; but this stuff? Why?

Only asking coz’ I wants to know. 

I also saw P11KY D, ST03LEN, L10N PE, W16AN M, W16AN W, A BA8Y, A 1oV DR, 100 POO, 13DC……………..

MI5 CYK, B16 ROB, B10 RJD, T3ACH, G4VEG (at least he’s a trader who sells veg)……..

B16 PAM, (she is, very big, too and you know where she lives and works, now!) UR51 DAD, B1111, J111 PYE,  A DO11, and I see X 4 DC X every day after school. Then there’s R1oYDS, also L1OYDS, and the like.

And numerous sets of obvious initials, today, yesterday and last week. Welcome to upper-Scouseland and also the Wigan peneplain.

These are just ordinary people, whom nobody knows except their friends. Why do they do it? In London, their employees would leave in droves in disgust, their customers would publicly demand discounts, and their cars would be keyed. Worse, the Police would always know who they are, and they cannot get off speeding tickets. 

Libertarians of course should rejoice that you can in principle have any car number you want. I would have “4″, for say the Aston, or even “5″ let us suppose for the Bugatti Veyron, or “3B” or “ZY57VZD” for the Citroen people-mover - then, nobody on the street would know who I was. But in a socialist “status”-driven society like now, it is merely horrid.

In a contract-driven one, however, a personal plate would be all you would want.