Missouri is currently choosing a new license plate. They've been having a voting session open since February 9th ending tonight at midnight. Why we have to have new license plates to the tune of millions of dollars is just beyond me. Well according to the site it's to reduce tab theft and make the plates easier to read. The selections aren't much different than the plates we already have which came out in 1996. But there is this bluebird plates which is quite different from what we've got. The other two are plain white backgrounds with one having a ribbon trailing through MISSOURI. The other is a reflection of MISSOURI. Had the picture editor here cooperated with me, I would have posted the other two.
Of course being a 'bird' person I'm for the bluebird plate. Sometimes I see other vehicles from outer lying states and they have some pretty cool ones. Ours just seem drab and colorless. I'm hoping the bluebird gets it, at least it's showing one of our states symbols. Of course I have a private agenda for the bluebird plate. I think my vanity plates will look good on it since my plates have to do with birds anyway. We have come a long way from our original maroon plates with white lettering. The vanity plates back then were just as bad: black with yellow lettering. That made your vanity plates really stand out in traffic. The 'new' ones in '96 were the same for regular or personalized so you all basically blend in the same.
I can't wait to see which ones win but since it's government I'm sure it will take a month or more for them to tally up votes that are probably computerized anyway. The plates won't be issued until January 1, 2009. That seems like a long time away but the way time is flying lately I suppose it will be here before you know it. Law requires the state slogan be on the plates, which for Missouri is The Show Me State. And believe me, people here live by that slogan. We all must be shown something before we'll believe it. Maybe Missouri has energy vibes that just soak into you the more you live here making you say, "Oh yea? SHOW me!"
