bj tahoe

for whatever reason, there are a lot of vanity license plates here in madison. this in itself is no surprise: what better way to trick out your phat ride and proclaim your hottness than by getting a license plate that labels you as 2 PHATT (the extra T is for hott)? sometimes, though, i wonder if these people have any idea what they’re doing. to wit: the tahoe i was driving behind on my way home for lunch today, with the license plate BJ TAHOE. what shall we surmise from this? now, there are already websites devoted to the tracking and providing an explanation of what various vanity plates might mean, but on none of them could i find anything quite like the plate i saw today. unsurprisingly, google is similarly unhelpful in untangling this little mess. whoever thought it’d be funny to drive around with this plate affixed to their car’s ass must have thought they were being unimaginably clever. the thing is, this is the sort of plate i’d expect to see on a lower-rent car, e.g. BJ FSTVA or BJ CIVIC, or a car more typically driven by male twits, like the C6LI9T i saw on a mazda with giant yellow rims the other day. who the hell buys a tahoe, and then gets stoned before going down the the DOT? and, given the plate, why not go for a van? or, if it’s not a stoner, who brings home their car and says, “check out this sweet new license plate i got! i’m BJ, and this is my tahoe!”? and who, at the DOT, thought that this plate was not “obscene or otherwise offensive?” i suppose the answer to all these questions is that somewhere in this fine city of madison a certain robert johansson is just proud of his vehicle, and either immune or oblivious to the snickering.