NTSO GR8
so kelly and i have a sort of accidental hobby. while we’re motoring around we, like you, encounter our share of vanity license plates and interesting license frames on the vehicles around us (generally to the front). our hobby is to figure out what they could mean and why people choose to put what they do on the rear bumper of their car.
we do so for two reasons.
the first is because kelly has an unnatural talent for deciphering vowel-less and innumerated words.
the second is because if i can’t immediately understand the message presented to us, i become obsessed with trying to figure out what it means.
luckily, about 80% of the time kelly has already figured out the message, then we discuss for a few moments.
it isn’t often that we are left without a real guess at what a plate or frame might mean, but yesterday we met our match.
there was nothing remarkable about the car, the plate or the motorist inside. but the license frame has vexed me for many hours already.
here was the message:
i pay taxes on both sides of the road
what does that mean?
seriously…what are they talking about?
thoughts, please!
nonsense, on the road, quotables | September 8th, 2008
maybe something to do with the political right and left?
Yea, could be a political statement of sorts.
Although, around here it could simply mean that they work in Missouri and pay taxes here, but live in Kansas and pay taxes there (or vice versa), thereby… paying taxes on both sides of the road – literally!
Believe it or not, folks tend to get a bit grumpy about that paying double taxes thing..go figure, huh?
Lol
it could be that they have dual citizenship in a country that drives on the opposite side of the road…..