Question for Vanity License Plate Owners

Who are you talking to with your plate?  Is your intended audience me, and if so, what is the hoped-for outcome of this communication?  Or is it a private message to yourself that makes you smile each time you see "NO1FLRT" on the tag of your Plymouth Sunfire, or "SKINAKD" on your Ford pickup, or "HNNIBAL" on your Hummer?

Comments

[turboglacier]

Yesterday I saw "AT HKRS". I'm pretty sure "AT" stands for "Appalachian Trail", but I'm not sure if the rest is supposed to be "hikers" or "hookers".

Also, here's an old one I found in the garage:
http://www.geocities.com/turboglacier/plate.html

[pjm]

I've always thought that Maine had a higher per-capita rate of vanity plates than any other state (excepting, perhaps, New Hampshire.) My favorite was the mini-van with "B KYXHR" on the plate. All the letters are in the Cyrillic alphabet (if you read the R backwards) but with different sounds, so the plate said, almost perfectly, "In the Kitchen" in Russian.

I'd say their audience was the very, very limited number of drivers who would get the clever joke.

[cmc]

As a NH resident, I can assure you that a person can literally drive herself slightly crazy on her morning commute trying to figure out all the license plates.

[a]

my mother got one years ago, because she thought it was cute and it made her happy to see it each time she headed across a parking lot and back into the car. i'm not sure she was prepared for the number of questions she would be getting about it and why it was chosen. and i'm fairly certain she hadn't considered those same questions directed at her kids while we were driving her car.