Number plates

I have gotten into the habit of reading people's car number plates.  When I first came here I thought it would be cool to have a personalised number plate, saying OUCH or SPEEDEMON, or whatever.  But as time has gone on, and I have stared at various versions I have decided they are a total waste.  They cost $100 odd  PER YEAR and because all the cool words are taken, the spellings used generally make little sense.  All I think of when I see them is the moment of hilarity when the new owner of the number plate gets them.  And then it is gone, and it becomes rather ludicrous.  Instead they are followed about by people with screwed up faces trying to work out what MYCHAIT actually means, or MRKOOLZ.  Our neighbours have one that says JSTSONS and for the longest time I read it to be JETSONS and thought it was their surname, it actually means Just sons, as they only have boys, but it seems a bit strange to spend a few hundred dollars each year to announce this to strangers.  Perhaps the ones the same I <3 JDB or JDB <3 FOS, is quite sweet and touching that they want to declare their love but still, spend the money on a ring or a nice meal or something.

Sorry, feeling cynical today and kept reading MYCHAIT as my shite, rather than My Chai Tea, and wondered why you would want to declare that on your car.......

Other gems I have seen are H8 WINTER, really, you feel the need to spend a hundred odd dollars per year to declare this???  LEAF GRN and GRVYMOM - could be 'gravy mom' - hard to know for sure.