Vanity license plates. You are the lamest thing I can think of, and I have paraplegic's legs in mind. I was driving on the bay bridge and I saw a red mustang with the plates "RED UFO". I feel like I need to delve in to this matter. Can you properly describe a UFO and still have it be a UFO? I feel like attaching the adjective red throws the last half out of the window. And I can identify that object as a 2001-3 Ford Mustang. And last time I checked, that car can't fly. Another plate, from Nevada, said "COP SON". Who gives a sh*t? Do you really think that your plates will deter a police officer from pulling your drunken frat arse over for speeding? I can picture a police man standing with his radar gun pointed at this SUV that is doing 60 in a 45. Just as he is about to hop in his car and pull them over he reads the vanity plates. Vanity plates can't lie. The officer has no choice but to let one of his coworker's children speed along rather than cause a riff in the department. Here is another common plate: first off, the person driving is a mid-40's woman with platinum bleached blonde hair, behind the wheel of something really classy and speedy (like a Miata). Her plate may introduce herself, or tell you a bit about her personality. "IM CINDY" "FUNGRL". It is like internet whores have turned their screen names into license plates. Out of all the places I have been, Arizona has the most vanity plates on the road. But after spending a summer in Mesa, I understand why some may find the most fun to be had would be getting a vanity plate.