More Succinct Witticisms You Might See in the Rearview Mirror

My family's headed to the beach for a week, which means we'll be cruising the highways. Our kids have outgrown license plate bingo, preferring instead to make catty remarks about each other's taste in clothing and music. But I still like seeing creative vanity plates. Here are some more reader finds sent in for your reading pleasure:

John Walker Manley of Alexandria got a kick out of a car with plates reading &DROID. Wrote John: "An interesting way to think of oneself!" (Yes, but it's preferable to HIMROID.)

Nikki Wojahn of Jessup has a favorite plate she spots around the Maryland side of the Capital Beltway and on Route 50. "It's a handicap license plate that has a wheelchair graphic and reads IM ILL."

License plates can sometimes tell a story. "Several years ago, on a trip down Interstate 81, a car passed us with a license plate which read AH CHOO," wrote Ashburn's Patricia B. Blanchard. "A few minutes later another car went by, and the plate read XCUSEME! Of course, we had no way of knowing if these two cars were traveling together, but we had to think it was random."

Three years ago Lisa Strauss of Kensington and her husband were driving home from Connecticut with their 3-year-old daughter. "We were trying to keep her entertained as we neared the home stretch. We had just seen the 'Seinfeld' episode about the soup shop. My husband and I started saying 'No soup for you' and waited for our daughter to repeat it. As we were doing this a car passed us with a vanity plate that said, NOSUP4U. My husband and I just lost it then!"

Kate Passow said she enjoyed my previous column on vanity plates, "particularly since the same day I read the column I was cut off while driving by someone who had this vanity plate: ZEN ST8."

Talk about bad car-ma.

Marian Carlsson of Lexington, Va., said that while driving across Kansas, she came upon a car with the plate HIOFFCR.

I wonder whether that would go over better than the plates that Hagerstown's John Parsons saw. One was on a Chevy Monte Carlo with a NASCAR motif. It read DRNKBUD. John dubbed the other memorable plate "the all-time getaway car special." There were seven letters: three Ws, three Ms and one N, all jumbled up. "With those letters all crowded onto the license plate, it resulted in an incomprehensible series of vertical lines."

Penny Smith of Sterling has the perfect plate to accompany her bumper sticker-encrusted minivan: SOAPBXR.

Stephen Staniszewski of Dumfries spotted G-CLEF on a car he's sure belongs to a music teacher and PORE DR on what he thinks must be a dermatologist's vehicle. Then there was 4CBWITU. Could that car belong to a Jedi knight?

Stephen's all-time favorite? OLD GZR. "The driver was an elderly gentleman with an excellent sense of humor. My hat is off to these people. Their plates can turn a dull drive into one that can be quite interesting."