When I bought my car about a month ago, I had to drive around with a paper tag for a few weeks. I finally got the call saying my license plate had arrived at the dealership and all I had to do was drop by and someone would put it on for me. Now, I can put a license plate on a car. But this dealership is all about “service.” So one of the Mechanic Boys put it on my car and I drove off the lot with a brand spanking new license plate, having never even glanced at it.
My first hint that my license plate was odd was when a co-worker came running into the office one day, out of breath, and laughing loudly. She asked me if I had asked for those specific letters and I said, no, of course not. What’s wrong with my license plate!? She strongly encouraged me to run outside and glance at my plate for the first time.
I did. And my jaw dropped.
And then a few mornings ago, I pulled out of The Valley a few seconds before my mom and she followed me all the way to West End School. While sitting at the red light, I saw her lower her sunglasses and stare at the back of my car. Stifling my giggles, I waited for the ring of my cell phone.
Sure enough, it rang. DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR LICENSE PLATE SAYS? Ha! Yes, mom. Isn’t it cute?
Yesterday evening I was on the freeway when I noticed this truck tailing me. I wasn’t going particularly slow (I was on that long stretch of road where 70 isn’t speeding. Mmm) so it bugged me that he was all over my tail. I adjusted my sunglasses and gave the driver the “rearview mirror stare.”
It was two guys and they were pointing at my license plate, smirking, and blowing kisses.
Sigh. Whichever little prisoner made that plate must have been having fun. Hey, George! I think I’ll make this one say SXY.
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Saturday “To Do” List:
1. Attempt to return a certain purchase
2. Finish Sunday School bulletin board on Rahab
3. Return dvds to library
4. Laundry
5. Finish the dishes in the sink
6. Take out the trash (which just means setting the bags on the back deck and phoning my dad to come pick them up)
7. Write two letters
8. Reply to an email
9. Finish Stained glass drawing
10. Work on proposal for minor savings accounts
11. Copy piano music for church
12. Vacuum, dust, Febreeze
13. Blog
14. Find some time to read Anna K.
15. Bring books down from parents house and organize for Ebay
16. Buy groceries
Update:
Well, I accomplished a few things on the list. The rest will have to wait.
My evening has been consumed by watching the police break into a vehicle that’s been sitting in the parking lot of our church for the past few days. A group of us were up there tonight (I was putting up my cute little Rahab board) and we began swapping stories as we remembered shootings, bears, and Mrs. Porter who use to sit in our church graveyard at all hours of the night.