You can see what is still available here: https://www.dmv.virginia.gov/dmvnet/plate_purchase/select_plate.asp

I was surprised some of my guesses were still available...or maybe not.

A Virginia personalized license plate costs a whopping $10 additional, if you get the plain plate. That's the same as getting one of fancy plates, like the mountains or leaves, and not personalizing it.

DH and I both have personalized plates, playing off our last name. Our SIL also has one playing off our last name. At least I always know what my plate is!

They're really cheap in VA so a lot of people have them, and because the buy-in isn't large, some really non-creative (or stupid) people use them to say really dumb things. Like the girl I knew who had "HNDACAR" on her honda. What a dumbass.

I saw the "how I roll" mercedes the other day, weirdly enough. My favorite vanity plate of all time - that I used to see all the time - was "STB4VT" with a Vtech sticker. (Saint Before V Tech) My least fave: "DCUNTD" because it supports DC United but has the C word in it. Can't believe that one got past the censors.

H8Duke was in front of me the other day. I went to Duke. I drove by and gave him the finger.

FUCK YOU VANITY PLATE GUY!

I have an alumni plate for my university. I'm proud to give back, after all they gave me.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have vanity plates because we want them and they're fun. That's why.

Is that really your idea of fun? Seriously? It's worth $30 a year or whatever to you?

yes, it's worth $30 to annoy you

Anonymous wrote:We have vanity plates because we want them and they're fun. That's why.

Is that really your idea of fun? Seriously? It's worth $30 a year or whatever to you?

Anonymous wrote:I don't get vanity plates either. I saw one the other day for something like #1 mom. I just though to myself--how stupidly self-serving.

Maybe it was a mother's day present from her DH, or her adult children.

I saw a black Benz with "GODSGFT"
I also saw a Kids First license plate with "UH WTF"

I have vanity plates to annoy uppity people.

Anonymous wrote:We have vanity plates because we want them and they're fun. That's why.

This. What's the bid deal?

We have vanity plates because we want them and they're fun. That's why.

Anonymous wrote:Nothing tops UofM PHD

Jerk!

Some dude in the next neighborhood over has a big black Benz with the plates reading "MBA CPA". Based on seeing his driving an behavior in public, he's a total douchebag.

Anonymous wrote:Nothing tops UofM PHD

Jerk!

Wait, I was wrong. There was one that said FKH8TRS

Nothing tops UofM PHD

Jerk!