My sister and I are dorks. Do you remember that famous game of family road trips — the license plate game where you try to see how many different states’ license plates you see on the road? Well, we’re playing it right now. At stake — a $10 Barnes & Noble gift card and bragging rights. 
She works for a hotel chain next to a convention center, so that’s a bit of an unfair advantage if you ask me. So what do I do in response? I cruise through hotel parking lots, checking out the license plates. And when I came out of the mall yesterday, I got several more since the mall is a really big one next door to a really big hotel that attracts people from all over the country. I even saw Alaska!
As of two nights ago, she only needed 12 more states, most of which are on my side of the country. I needed 21, mostly on her side of the country. But I hit the jackpot at the mall yesterday — I added 8 more states, leaving me 13 left. We’re neck and neck. I might have gotten more, but I thought the mall security might begin to wonder why that Sentra kept going up and down rows of cars slowly. Didn’t want them thinking I was selecting one to break into!
Oh, and I think I should get bonus points for seeing Ontario since I live nowhere near the Canadian border.
June 22nd, 2007 at 10:48 pm
Bwahahaha!!!
June 23rd, 2007 at 3:37 pm
What a great way to play that old game!
And, yes, you DO deserve bonus points for Ontario. *g*
June 23rd, 2007 at 9:52 pm
When I lived in Atlanta, GA, I saw a license plate from Hawaii, which I thought was pretty cool. It had a rainbow on it.