Vanity

If there is one thing I have noticed in my few years in Virginia it's that people down here really like vanity license plates. Perhaps part of it is the reasonable price of vanity plates compared to other states is perhaps part of the of the reason, but getting them involves going to the DMV. And lets face it, if the DMV was giving away free ice cream, I still wouldn't go there unless I absolutely had to. Whatever the reason, though, VA apparently has the highest amount of special plates of any state.

This means my day is often brightened by seeing creative avoidances of vowels, inspired abbreviations of the word Hokie, and those zany Free Tibet custom plates which I must imagine go like Hotcakes down in "real Virigina".

But all of that was just prologue until yesterday, when I saw the most mysterious of all plates. I'm rarely one to just take a camera phone picture, especially at a light, but this was an exception:

















Yes, iPhone cameras suck, but if it's not clear the plate says HOT JANK. I don't know what the implications of "Hot Jank" as a vanity plate means. Maybe the person regularly uses HOT lanes. Perhaps their last name is Jank and they are exceedingly attractive. Somehow though, I just don't think either of those is really the case. Truly some riddles will never be solved.