Plates of Wrath
So I finally have a car. Along the process I of course had to get a set of license plates for it. At the MTO office, I asked what the price difference was between the normal plates, and the one's with the various logos on the side. So for roughly $30 extra, I ordered a set of Ottawa Senators plates, so I can proclaim my hockey allegiances to the world. I also asked if I could pick which particular one from their available plates. The woman informed me that I would only be given the one at the top of the pile. When she brought it out, I was quite excited to find that my new plates had the jersey numbers of both Martin Havlat and Daniel Alfredsson on it, two of my favourite Senators. The customary format for these plates is two numbers followed by a two letter code for the symbol (SE in my case for Senators), followed by another pair of numbers. My plates however seemed to convey a different meaning, and it didn't clue in for me until someone pointed it out. Havlat's number of course is 9 and Alfedsson's is 11, so my plates read 09SE11. Very easily taken to resemble September 11th. In fact, I can't think of any way that a random, non-personalized plate could look anymore like September 11th. I like them, but I'm not sure what other drivers will think. Whether they think I'm a terrorist or a fire-fighter in remembrance, it should definitely make for interesting questions.

   [ posted by William @ 3:58 PM ]