Thank you to the Texas Department of Transportation, or whoever decides we need new license plates, and the fine people of the great state of Texas for choosing the ugliest, cheesiest, tackiest license plate. Thanks to your poor taste, our cars’ most prominent accessory looks like a white trash T-shirt.
Now the big question—do I care enough to pay extra for a “Save the Wildflowers” or “Education Matters” plate? Eh.
It has also been brought to my attention that the new U.S. passports look like patriotism and bald eagles threw up all over our international travel documents. My NPR crush and host of “Marketplace” Kai Ryssdal interviewed a woman who is also disgusted with the new, tacky passport design. Karie Jacobs says:
When I travel, I try to be the Complex American -- a citizen of the fascinating, nuanced, multicultural, messy and basically decent place I know this country to be. But I feel like this passport blows my cover. It's like suddenly, against my will, I'm wearing ugly khaki shorts and talking way too loud.
Thankfully, my passport is valid for many more years thus delaying my receipt of a hideous passport. Oh wait. I’m changing my name in 102 days. Must rethink this…
There was an online vote for a few weeks on the TX DOT website. I voted to keep it the way it is! (I also voted for a TX UF Alumni plate- take that Georgia!) Alas, the airbrush Texas plate won by a landslide.
ReplyDeleteYes, how sad that it was actually a democratically elected license plate. Don't Texans realize how hideous the font Brush Script really is?!?
ReplyDeleteI'm blaming Dallas.
ReplyDeleteoh god, there goes my dinner.
ReplyDeleteand yes, Hubby got one of those passports and it's pretty awful.