So I’m driving along Scottsdale Rd, near Thunderbird and the road looks like an obstacle course on the moon as a new drainage system is currently being ploughed-in. As I weave my way around the cones at a conservative 25 mph, a black pick-up truck barrels past me in the other ‘lane’ at around 45, riding roughshod over the bumps and potholes as if on a practice run for a monster truck rally, its tires sending dirt and rocks spewing into the ether.
As it hurtles up the road, I spot a contraption in the back of the truck - it’s a black wheelchair connected to a black hydraulic lifting device.
My eyes wander down as the truck disappears into a cloud of dust and I notice the vanity plate: ‘CNTWALK’.
No buddy, but you can sure drive!
December 11th, 2007 at 9:58 pm
I’ve seen that guy!
December 12th, 2007 at 11:37 am
I wonder how many more brutally honest plates there are out there in Phoenix?
I did see the vanity plate ‘WANKER’ on a quite high-end car on SR51 around 2005. Although it’s an English rather than American expression, it has begun to creep into the U.S. lexicon in recent times. I did wonder whether the owner of the car was being brutally honest, or whether some cheeky Brit had told him that it meant ‘really cool guy’.
For those out there unaware of its meaning, a rough translational would be ‘JRKOFF’ or even ‘MSTRB8R’.