Tag: car licence plate

What Do You Keep in Your Bucket?

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There is a cat in my bucket. There is a fish in his bucket.  The neighbours have pumpkins in their bucket. And just for full measure, not another bucket but an almost bitch: Midweek Madness: The Letter B

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

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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

Much Obliged

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Two painted pebbles from the pebble chain that made its appearance along the side of the local lake during the big lockdown of 2020. Thanking everybody for being responsible or at least, them that were.

Traffic related thanks: A billboard thanking drivers for adhering to the volunteer speed limit of 30 km/h for the sake of the children living in the neighbourhood. Or just a general thanks from the owner of this white car, either to the other drivers for driving defensively, or possibly a thanks for the powers that provided this car in the first place.

And here are my special thanks to — oh, you know who you are!

The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Thanks