Aibu re personalised number plate? Yes or no

[RocketQueenP]

DH has bought me one as a surprise, it's just a random letter and number followed by my initials (wasn't mega expensive)

But I'm just not sure about it! He thinks it's the best gift ever 😳 But he says we can just not register it and sell it on if I don't want it. I don't want to be ungrateful but what's the general consensus? Are they for twats or not?

My beautician has B0tox and a number for hers

I like them I have one and it's on a Range Rover not white though Orange!
Mine is my stillborn DD initials and the year so to me it means something

And I have seen B00bs

I'm from Cheshire. Millions of them there. There's a lady who drives around in a merc with the reg CLA55Y.

i'm thinking that's the sort of thing you don't normally need to advertise!

I don't mind them.

I just can't get aerated about private plates - it's just a way of personalising one's car. I find those stupid headlight eyelashes and 'powered by fairy dust' decals far more nauseating.

My car marks me out as a twat anyway in many people's eyes so maybe I should just stick the plate on and go the whole hog 😝

Lol, you should just go for it and enjoy it. I'd rather be a bit naff and having fun than going around judging people and calling them Twats on the internet.

You could get a weekend at an Airbnb for £300! And it would be loads more fun than a personalised plate.

Clearly we have very different ideas of what constitutes a nice holiday. :)

Which is fine because, get this : people like different things!!

The only think that's wrong is when people behave like twats about other people's choices.

I really, really have an irrational hatred of them. I don't know why - they just piss me off. Who cares what the name of some random person driving the car in front of you is? And it's normally something like K437IE meaning Katie anyway. Pretentious and ridiculous.

soupdragon

If he doesn't mind, definitely sell it on and spend the money on something else

I don't mind them TBH. The ones that spell an actual word amuse me when I spot them.

There was one on a RR in the Waitrose car park a while back 'BR10CHE'

Who cares? It's no more naff/wasteful than spending £300 on any other unnecessary aesthetic feature of your car - wheel trims, leather seats, metallic paint, sunroof, etc. As long as it's legal and you recognise it, doesn't really matter what anyone else thinks, does it?

Not a fan myself, but to some people they clearly mean a lot.

I don't really like them and they can scream " twat", especially the one s that were obviously a bit cheaper and so don't really spell anything. The only ones would want I could never afford.
Having said that I have a friend with one and she is one of the classiest non twatty people I know.
Just own it OP!!

My number plate makes me smile every single day. Well, not actually physically smile,that would be weird, but a do get a little glow of contentment from it. Its no different from getting contentment from a posh handbag (as an example which doesn't really do it for me) or anything else.

I can't bear them usually but there's one near us which I quite like:
P005 WEE

Someone (a boyfriend years ago) once told me they were planning to buy me a private plate and I was so relieved they told me first so that I could say no.

You poor thing

I think they're naff too, sorry. That said - like garden gnomes - I think you can get away with it if it's vaguely ironic (like having FLASH1 on a battered Ford Escort).

The reason I wouldn't have one, though, is that it makes you very, very easy to spot. I have a bizarrely good memory for number plates, even though I have no interest in cars. I'll often say to DH "Oh, so and so is here" based on the fact that their car is in the car park. He absolutely wouldn't notice. But even he wouldn't miss the fact that one of our neighbours was there, as his plate is (something like) PG1. The nosiness may not bother you ("I saw Rocket's car in Sainsbury's") but if, like my neighbour, you drive a super flash car which is your pride and joy, then I'd be worried about making myself a target for thieves etc.

On the other hand, I may be totally paranoid and if you like it/think it's fun, who is anyone else to judge?

Someone round here has a massive car with ref MI55 XFM. Worst driver I've ever seen and drove into a space I was indicating for. I was moving in the space and they managed to drive right at me in order to reverse into it. Never been so livid and would have smeared a shitty nappy on the windscreen had I not thought better of it. I don't have a problem with personalised number plates but they are very identifying in situations like that.

Deeply naff. Sorry!

I like them if they're funny.
B1G D11X not so much.

The one OP has described sounds fine? No-one apart from your close friends and family would even know it was personalised, right? EG I'm imagining something like
GZ14 ERD
or
R389 ERD
?
Don't see anything remotely twatty about that. DH's cousin has one like that; however she got remarried so the initials aren't right any more :-) Her married initials were the same as my maiden name initials so when I started going out with DH her new husband used to (semi) joke that she should give it to me instead, haha!

I don't really see the appeal of the ones with initials or name, it's like walking round with a name badge on. Strangers don't care what your name is and everyone else knows it already.
Some of the ones linked to businesses or people's jobs are amusing though.