Summer 2018 License Plate game

[GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl]

Inspired by a 530 mile road trip today and the sighting of a rare license plate in these parts, let's start a virtual license plate game.

I'll post the plate I saw and someone posts any license plate they see on summer travels that begins with the last letter of the previous plate posted. If you live in a state that begins with that letter, you are benched until a new letter is posted.

Let's get started: today, I saw for the first time in my 58 years on this rock a license plate from Manitoba (even had to explain where and what Manitoba is to YDS, LOL).

So, if someone sees a license plate that begins with the letter A on their summer travels, post it!

[Knee Deep in Water Chloe]

Does this Memorial Day Weekend Count?

Alberta!

[sesfw]

Arizona 


<sigh>  another 'a'

[Tennesseer]

Does it count if you saw the license plate years ago, like 61, when I was six?

Saw a license plate on a car parked in front of my dad's dental office in Massachusetts with the owner inside getting drilled:

Nova Scotia.

[GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl]

May 31, 2018 7:13:08 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

Does it count if you saw the license plate years ago, like 61, when I was six?

Saw a license plate on a car parked in front of my dad's dental office in Massachusetts with the owner inside getting drilled:

Nova Scotia.

😜

Didn't you grow up in an area with a decently-sized French Canadian population (along with the Polish families in that area)? I did. We even had an entire Catholic parish in my town where both Mass and instruction in the parochial school were entirely in French. License plates from Nova Scotia, Quebec, PEI, etc. were everywhere when I was a kid and are common during my many forays into Maine these days. But Manitoba? Nope.

Oh, and we're looking for plates that start with "A" still, not "N".😜

[weltschmerz]

Alabama

[Tennesseer]

May 31, 2018 15:16:43 GMT -5 GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl said:

May 31, 2018 7:13:08 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

Does it count if you saw the license plate years ago, like 61, when I was six?

Saw a license plate on a car parked in front of my dad's dental office in Massachusetts with the owner inside getting drilled:

Nova Scotia.

😜

Didn't you grow up in an area with a decently-sized French Canadian population (along with the Polish families in that area)? I did. We even had an entire Catholic parish in my town where both Mass and instruction in the parochial school were entirely in French. License plates from Nova Scotia, Quebec, PEI, etc. were everywhere when I was a kid and are common during my many forays into Maine these days. But Manitoba? Nope.

Oh, and we're looking for plates that start with "A" still, not "N".😜

Springfield, Mass. had a good size French Canadian population but also a large Irish and Italian population too. Catholic grammar school (1950s) was all English in class. Though in first and maybe second grade, about 20 minutes a day was spent learning French. That didn't last long though.

The license plate-I was six years old and impressed with a license plate from another country in front of my dad's office, even if the drive to Halifax is only a 12 hour drive.

I was having a dyslexic moment or two when I read the directions. So I was thinking of aitocS avoN.



Arkansas (I see as many of those plates here as I do Tennessee plates).

[chiver78]

I saw South Carolina in the parking lot at my new company about a week and a half ago when I went in to interview. 

sorry guys, back to 'A' 

[GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl]

May 31, 2018 15:37:50 GMT -5 chiver78 said:

I saw South Carolina in the parking lot at my new company about a week and a half ago when I went in to interview. 

sorry guys, back to 'A' 

😂

I think we're going to need to repeat some of the "a" states at the rate we are going.

[Tennesseer]

I have seen Alaska here.  (Major domestic and international company headquartered here-many relos).  

[Tennesseer]

There will be no M states mentioned.  

[Lizard Queen]

It is not uncommon to see Alaska plates here. What's weird, though, is that I started seeing a Hawaii plate in my grocery stores parking lot. The car wasn't anything you'd bother shipping from Hawaii.

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May 31, 2018 16:27:31 GMT -5 Lizard Queen said:

It is not uncommon to see Alaska plates here. What's weird, though, is that I started seeing a Hawaii plate in my grocery stores parking lot. The car wasn't anything you'd bother shipping from Hawaii.

Probably a mlitary family. They'll ship them for free, so why not bring the beater?

[GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl]

😂. Manitoba must be empty. I just saw another car with Manitoba plates -- this one in Massachusetts. If both cars from Manitoba are currently on the East Coast, I hope one of them shut the lights off in Manitoba before they left. 😂

[empress of self-improvement]

I'm sorry but you've really never seen a Manitoba plate before this year? WOW! I've seen them and I'm only 45. Of course, I've been seeing more Quebec and Montreal than I really need to. And Ottawa. And some asshole from Ohio who needs driving lessons.

[midjd]

Everyone from OH needs driving lessons.

- Every Hoosier

[Knee Deep in Water Chloe]

British Columbia!!!

(It's a good thing I live on the West Coast, or you'd all be stuck on A forever!)

[GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl]

Jul 1, 2018 14:56:34 GMT -5 Knee Deep in Water Chloe said:

British Columbia!!!

(It's a good thing I live on the West Coast, or you'd all be stuck on A forever!)

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British Columbia?

And we are indeed back to "A". 😂

[Knee Deep in Water Chloe]

Wait, what the rules then? Are we not going alphabetically?



Oh...I just read the original post all the way through. 

[wvugurl26]

I totally thought this was going to be all the different ones you hadn't seen before. A car with North Dakota plates was parked next to us at the fireworks and I wanted to find this thread to post.

[GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl]

Jul 4, 2018 20:09:23 GMT -5 wvugurl26 said:

I totally thought this was going to be all the different ones you hadn't seen before. A car with North Dakota plates was parked next to us at the fireworks and I wanted to find this thread to post.

That version works, too!

[busymom]

May 31, 2018 17:14:00 GMT -5 minnesotapaintlady said:

May 31, 2018 16:27:31 GMT -5 Lizard Queen said:

It is not uncommon to see Alaska plates here. What's weird, though, is that I started seeing a Hawaii plate in my grocery stores parking lot. The car wasn't anything you'd bother shipping from Hawaii.

Probably a mlitary family. They'll ship them for free, so why not bring the beater?

     My family spotted a plate from Hawaii here, too.  So, of course we joked "they finally finished that bridge!"  

[Knee Deep in Water Chloe]

Just saw Kentucky! That doesn’t happen out here on the West Coast very often!

[taz157]

I’m on the East Coast and I saw Colorado today.

[Knee Deep in Water Chloe]

Holy Goodness! I just saw
Guam!

[Lizard Queen]

I saw Montana yesterday. I think I've seen most of the states' plates here over the years, but that may have been a first.

[swamp]

I saw a Hawaii plate last month.  I've never seen one of those before! 

[Artemis Windsong]

H. and I learned that once you get on As it's nearly impossible to get off.  Kentucky and Tennessee probably ends the game.

[wyouser]

So, if you have been overseas , can you use one of their plates? Germans use an abbreviation of their Kreis-city that issues the plate (Kreis is kind of like a county here) Ie...   Neu followed by numbers would indicate the abbreviation of Neustadt a county seat in the Black Forest.