ROFL, OMG, etc. So North Carolina's DMV has to get cracking to cook up 10,000 replacement license plates after one 60-year-old grandmother got clued in by her text-savvy grandchild that her standard-issue plate, contained an acronym that expresses disbelief in an explicit fashion. As in, WTF.
The DMV (Look! Another acronym in the neighborhood of WTF!) says that although they try to keep up with all the latest acronyms, this one slipped by their censors. They've offered to replace the offending plates free of charge. Oh, but the best part of this story? That they'd been using one of the WTF plates on their website as an example. They're now "trying to remove the plate" from the site.
I'm no entrepreneur, but I imagine that they could resell the turned in plates for quite a profit to those who might want a little more color in their vehicle identification? It's like those super-expensive vanity plates, or the political ones, or the religious ones, but way, way better. Would you turn yours in, or flaunt it?
Yeah, exactly what you guys say. I would have to add that, this is a Beavis and Butthead
moment. Huh huh, huh huh. That car has BJ....
for me, this is one of those get over it and move on moments. If this had happened to my grandmother, she would have been shocked and appalled, and told me not to speak of it again. She was way too frugal and way too busy to worry about getting her plates changed because of the acronym of the moment.
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