When I was a kid in Ohio, we changed license plates every year, and we had between March 15 to April 15 to take off the old ones and put on the new ones. That doesn’t happen any more; most if not all states have gone to semi-permanent plates that are renewed every year or two by stickers. Plus, a lot of states have come out with special plates that show your allegiance to a college, a cause, or a sport. Florida offers over 100 “specialty” plates for just about every charity, NGO, sports team, and college and university in the state; I’m surprised they haven’t come up with “Lesbians for the Metric System” yet, but the Legislature is still in session, so anything can happen. (You can see the entire list of available plates here.) So I’m thinking about getting one of those.
My current plate is the old standard-issue Florida tag:
Not my real plate; this is from David Nicholson’s excellent license plate site 15q.net.
That plate design was superseded in 2003 by this one —
— so when my current plate expires this year, I’ll be sent of those, complete with the double oranges and the “MyFlorida.com” web address. Feh.
I currently have the State of the Arts plate on the Pontiac.
I like it; it has a flair to it, I do believe in supporting all of the arts, but I’m not sure I want both my cars to have the same plate serving the same NGO.
Perhaps I should go with the Support Education plate:
I do work in education and I know we need all the help we can get.
One more thing to consider, however; how would either plate look on the back of my car? Well, here’s what it looks like now (click on the image to enlarge):
The license plate frame would stay. (Oh, and if you want one for your own car, you can order one here.)
So, dear reader, what do you think? I’ve pretty much narrowed it down to two choices: Arts or Education, but I’m open to suggestions.