I would just like to post here and now my indignation that the state of Utah does not believe in having the letter Q on any of their license plates.
But maybe I should back up and begin at the start.
It all started about August 3rd when I began driving to and from Salt Lake City everyday (well, Monday through Thursday) and at random points during the drive (ESPECIALLY the drive home when I was stuck in rush hour traffic) I would begin the play the alphabet game with myself. After a while I noticed the only letter I got stuck on for longer than 1 minute was Q- and do you know why? Because Utah feels that Q is too easily mistaken with O and so they don't have either of these letters on their plates!
Ah, it was a terrible, sad sad day for me when I found this out! There are now only two reliable places to find a Q on the drive- in fact there is only one truly reliable one and it's in SLC already!!! You see on the occasionally happy day I can drive by a Qwest truck or some such and pick up my Q that way, but if I'm not lucky enough for that I have to wait all the way until I get down into downtown SL and see the sign with directions for Temple Square (although the fact that these two words have the corresponding letters from Q all the way to U does assauge my anger somewhat) and then I have one block to get from V to Z. Ah, it's a hard life I'm tellin' ya!
2 comments:
I feel for you - actually not really. We aren't onto the alphabet game yet (thought now that you remind me of it maybe it's a good time to start...) we are generally stuck looking for mailboxes, trucks or trees. (If the necessary item can't be located in about two minutes they pretty much give up so I keep it basic.) You know what would be a fun game for me to play - try to drive anywhere without having to use the letter 'q'. I'm fairly certain that not a car trip goes by without a few 'quit it's and 'quiet down'. Good thing we have a chance to practice this tomorrow...
What about the letter 'o'? Aren't you at least a little peturbed that IT isn't included on any license plates? Let's be fair now!
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