Sunday, September 2, 2007

License to Be New Mexican

We have finally received our NM license plate, long after getting library cards and driver's licenses, let alone the other accoutrements of citizenship. (We have voter ID cards here --- remember the flap about how Americans are too something to stoop to national IDs?? Obviously some Americans are more American than others, right Mr. Orwell?)
The plates here are in this pattern: ### ABC. Just like the California plate of yore, except in reverse. (Nostalgia for those old black/orange plates without commentary on them.) And here one can also get plates that 1)support the Lobos 2)sport one's combat veteran status 3)have hot-air balloons on them 4)have a simple green-on-yellow motif. We chose the 4th one. Maybe someday we'll be Lobos supporters, but most likely we will not acquire NM combat veteran status, and the balloon just isn't us.

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