Detroit is the Motor City. It makes sense that we're at our most vulnerable when we're sharing our feelings, wants, desires, deepest secrets and bizarre utterances through our vanity license plates – even if they don't make any sense at all.
But just like the image above – whocres?
Once you start hunting for these bad boys, you'll see vanity plates everywhere. It's truly a Michigan thing, especially if you go off this completely anecdotal Reddit post: "Moved here from the PNW a few years ago and man, I have never seen so many vanity plates. Why is this so prevalent in Michigan? I've lived all over the country while serving in the military and I just haven't seen this many vanity plates anywhere - maybe it wasn't on my radar though."
My favorite response to this question: "We know how to party."
You could use your vanity plate to communicate your musical taste.
Or you could use it to invent a new word that sounds like it's coming out of a 1950s comic book.
It's an amazing window into someone's soul and how they try to communicate with the world, asking massive questions like...
Or to propose a new favorite food to the rest of the folks on the highway. Should we get off at exit 12 and get a snack together?
I am not as bold as many Detroiters, or willing to wear my heart on the back of my car. I've never had the courage (or wit) to get a vanity license plate, even though it's cheap and obviously a ton of fun for others on the road – whether that's struggling to understand whatever the hell a "biddy" is, or who is "baby444" actually for.
Perhaps, however, the whole thing leaves you...
