Clariman wrote:I have a friend who bought personalised registrations of a basic kind (3 personal initials and random numbers or something like that). He did so because the industry he worked in expected people to have flash new cars, but he never ever bought a new car. Instead he would run a good condition old car with the personalised number plates, to obscure the age of his car.
Hats off to your friend. We have a couple of neighbours who do much the same thing, and it seems harmless and only gets a 5% twat rating from me. Easily compensated for by the virtue of running a middle-aged car rather than being suckered (or pressurised) into having the very latest all the time.
Around these particular rural parts, most of us are well enough off to have all the new cars we might want to buy, but the reason most of us prefer a properly run-in model instead is that when you've got to go out and fetch a bale of hay or nine bales of compost, or a muddy dog and a tree, or a couple of hundred kilos of fence posts, you probably won't want to bring them home in your £50K posemobile. On the whole, people tend to find better things to do with their money.
BJ
