On the way home from work, I saw a car with vanity license plates that just said:
WHEE
Awesome. How could you not smile getting into a car with license plates that say WHEE?
On another note entirely, I checked the Minnesota DOT website to see how much customized plates are, because there still has to be some combination like WHEEE or WHEEEE or WEEEEE still left out there that I could get. And I was quickly reminded of yet another way Iowa is better than Minnesota (beyond the selling alcohol on Sundays, selling alcohol in gas station and grocery stores, lower taxes, actually thawing / ice melting during the winter, and, of course, being the Hawkeye State).
In Iowa, personalized plates run you an extra $25, it’s an easy one page form, you can get them for a huge variety of causes, you can get them in your school colors, and you can see what they actually look like before ordering them.
In Minnesota, it’s ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHT DOLLARS AND FIFTY CENTS for personalized plates. And you can use their four page long government form to try to figure out how to apply for them (god help you). Now granted, if you look long enough, you can get custom plates in Minnesota for your school, though not in your school colors. They’re right in there with where you get the plates for your Concrete Pumper or your Street Sweeper.