Nothing too ponderous or wordy; don't worry. I read license tags. I love a well-done vanity tag and enjoy figuring out the hidden meaning behind classics such as "LB SAND" (my all-time favorite) and "37OH55V" (got to look at some things upside down.)
Up in New Hampshire, the governor, Chris Sununu, had to get involved in the imbroglio over Wendy Auger's license tags.
Wendy is a mom from Rochester, NH, and for 15 years of hauling kids around, she has had one motto and one vanity tag: PB4WEGO.
Suddenly this summer, she was asked to turn in those tags because they’re not in conformance with the “NH Code of Administrative Rules.”
Imagine if you will, someone in a cubicle in the sprawling offices of the New Hampshire Department of Driving who sits there and says, "LUVUNICKY" is ok but "PB4WEGO" has got to go.
Wendy kicked up enough dust that it came to the attention of the governor, whose other duties include explaining a dozen times a day why the state has as its motto "Live Free Or Die."
I mean, really.
“Upon this being brought to my attention, I reached out to the Division of Motor Vehicles and strongly urged them to allow Wendy to keep the license plate she has had for the last 15 years,” Sununu said in a statement. “I recently left a message on her phone to share the good news that her plate will not be recalled.”
In the original letter, the officials claimed that Ms Auger's tags, which they issued to her in the first place, violate a section of the rules banning plates from having any reference to “sexual or excretory acts or functions.”
To me and all other reasonable people (notice how I lump myself in there!), the advice to tinkle before getting on the road is well taken.
“Please bring your PB4WEGO vanity plates and registration, along with this letter, to the nearest Division of Motor Vehicles Registration office,” the letter demanded. “You may select another vanity plate at no further cost or obtain regular passenger plates.”Auger, a bartender by trade, decided to live free or die laughing.
“Anybody who has seen it or comes across it — everybody smiles, gives a thumbs up, honks, takes pictures,” she told a news station. “There’s not one person who I can speak of who has ever been offended.”
After the matter was all cut and dried, so to speak, Auger wrote on Facebook that the governor said “we took care of that issue,” and apologized for “that little bureaucratic hold up up there..and the push back....but obviously common sense prevailed.”
It's great that she didn't get so PO'ed that she couldn't celebrate!
Another victory for common sense.
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