What Did Bob Wish When the Fox Told Him to Duck?

Written by eklastic

German car number plates work like this:

  • the first letters (1-3) denote the area (B = Berlin, M = Munich, RÜD = Rüdesheim, i.e. the less letters the bigger the town)
  • the next one or two letters are random
  • as are the numbers at the back (four maximum)

You used to take what you got but these days you can choose the middle letters and numbers. Lots of people drive around with their initials and their birthdates or -years.

But it’s much more fun if the plates make words. Sometimes German words but English is popular because the words are often shorter. Or people might not realise that they drive around with an expletive in a foreign language (particularly people in Fulda or Dieburg).

I like to collect photos of license plate words (sometimes with wonky spelling).

And with a bit of luck, they even make a story.

I’m ready to duck.

Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge: Licence Plates

11 thoughts on “What Did Bob Wish When the Fox Told Him to Duck?”

    1. No, you pay 10 € for a plate of your choice. You have to check on the internet first if your preference is still available. You have to start with the first one/two / three letters of your area but I believe that even that has become open to negotiation, as old abbreviations which were abolished when they reorganised community boundaries are being revived. As an example, Dieburg was DI but then it became an administrative unit with Darmstadt and the plates changed to DA. But for the last 5 or 10 years you could ask for a DI number again. Unfortunately, we live in HD aread and there are not that many words that start with HD. 😭

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