fine whine

As the months go by and the leaves start to turn here in Ohio, my mind turns to thoughts of ... expiring license plate tags. As 2004 winds down fewer and fewer cars here in Columbus have stickers expiring this year, and lately I've taken to spotting them. I've even seen a couple with expired tags, and last I heard that was primary offense around here, tsk tsk.

So to explain the system to those who don't live in Ohio: License plate tags are little stickers that every car registered in Ohio must have renewed every year. These stickers expire on the birthday of the registration holder, so mine, for example, needed to be renewed before 9/23 of this year. So does my license, for that matter, but I can't do that online and must subject myself to BMV purgatory soon. But the stickers come in different colors for each year, and I only need to pay attention to the white ones this year. A lot of 9s, 10s, 11s and surprisingly few 12s are still rolling around.

Anyway, I was thinking about this, and realized that the driver's birth month is basically out in the open. As such, it wouldn't be too difficult to extrapolate potential horoscopic signs, and from there figure out what sort of drivers are sharing our roads. You know, if Tauruses or Cancers are road hogs or Scorpios are bad at switching lanes.

I think this could perhaps be useful knowledge.