Showing posts with label Personalized Tags. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Personalized Tags. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Meaning

Ah, the perils of the personalized lisence plate.  Your meaning, while clear to you, may not be clear to your fellow motorists.

Several times of late I have seen a large, older model Cadillac with a personalized tag reading "I AM HZ".  I never get a glance at the driver to see if it's a male or female, but this statement has at least three interpretations I can think of off the top of my head.  Four, even.

First, its the showy proclamation of faith.  The person is owned by his or her deity, presumably the Judeo-Christian one.

Second, the tag is the voice of the car, proclaiming the ownership of the driver.

Third, the driver is a woman proclaiming possession of her husband/significant other.

Then a fourth occurred to me.  Maybe someone has an electric personality and is proud of it.  Or is part of a large rental car company.