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Spring '00



The height of laziness: shaving only the part of your leg that will show through the side slit of the skirt you're going to wear.
Signs of age (and for some reason these seem to spring to mind more easily all the time):
  • The lone bottle of aspirin and box of bandaids that inhabited your medicine cabinet during your 20's have been joined by relief for every malady known to man.
  • You can remember when Mc was alphabetized before M.
  • You can remember when it wasn't seeing a male school bus driver that was amazing, but seeing a female school bus driver.

Suggestion to fast food restaurants: post the current approximate drive-through time on your sign large enough for customers to see before they pull into the line. With so many things computerized nowadays, how difficult could it be? While the possibility exists you will lose the immediate business of people who are in a hurry, at least it will be a one-time loss. If they get stuck in a line that ends up taking much longer than they anticipate, you may end up with an irrate customer who will never again patronize your business.
First, let's establish the purpose for a license plate. A means of identifying a vehicle. So far, so good. A wild guess would be that each state having only 1 design instead of 11 would make the identification process a tad easier. If you want to make a personal statement, try a bumper sticker or license plate frame.

Some states have simple designs representative of their state. I like Arizona (cactus), Colorado (mountain peaks), Florida (orange), Georgia (peach), New Mexico (sun), New York (Statue of Liberty), Oregon (evergreen), and Wyoming (cowboy). They seem to have grasped that busy artwork is unlikely to translate well to a 12 inch by 6 inch piece of metal, often only glimpsed while hurtling past at 70 mph.

Indiana's last license plate made me wince. Both because the tropical sunset look was misleading about a state whose northernmost section seems to get 37 days of sunshine a year, and because the colors clashed with so many paint jobs. (I've heard it's an award-winning design. That worries me.)

For the current plate the State has wised up in terms of simplicity, although originality is still an issue. We now have an outline of the state. I can sympathize with the apparent problem in thinking of an icon which would bring our state to mind though, since the only thing I've been able to think of is an Indy car.
Do you suppose future generations will look at mauve and teal like we look at avocado green and harvest gold?


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10 May 00